- Rewrite each sentence as reported speech with tense changes.
2. He said he’d forgotten to phone the doctor.
3. He said everybody liked comedy films.
4. He said he was thinking about it.
5. She said she was reading a paper.
6. She said scientists didn’t understand everything.
7. He said he’d decided to look for a new job.
8. He said he could swim 5,000 metres.
9. She said she was going to have a baby.
10. He said he’d phone on Friday. - Read the information about the Trojan War. Then put one pronoun or reference word
Here is the completed text with the correct words in each space:
A) Paris told Helen that he loved a. her and he wanted b. her to go to Troy with c. him.
B) Menelaus told his brother that he was going to attack Troy and get d. his wife back because e. she loved f. him best.
C) The Greek heroes told Menelaus that g. they would go with h. him to attack Troy and get i. his wife back.
D) The Greeks said that they had been fighting j. there for nine years and they wanted to get back to k. their families.
E) Odysseus told them that he was going to take some soldiers with l. him inside m. the wooden horse.
F) Odysseus told the Greeks that n. his plan had worked and the city was o. theirs.
3. Read the information about Heinrich Schliemann. Then complete the text by writing said or told in each space.
Recently many experts have said: «Schliemann had a habit of not telling the truth, and this has rised doubts about his work.» For example, he told everyone: «I am a US citizen», but in fact this wasn’t true. He also said: «I have a degree from the University of Rostock», but in fact the university rejected his thesis. He said: «I have found gold jewellery at Hissarlik», but some people believe these were modern pieces. In fact, his servant later told people: «No jewellery have been found in the places that Schliemann claims to have found it.» He also told the authorities in Turkey: » He is an archaeologist, but he doesn’t have any qualifications.» When he talked about his work, he always told people: «I have dreamed of finding Troy when I was a small boy», but many people feel that he invented this story later. However, although many archaeologists at the time said: «His work is inaccurate, we have to remember that archaeology was not a science in Schliemann’s time». He may not have alwys told the truth, but he brought a lot of energy to the discovery of the ancient world, and devoted his life and his wealth to his excavations.
4. Rewrite each sentence about Schliemann as reported speech.
a) He said that his father had read the stories to him when he was a child.
b) He said that he had always believed that Troy was a real place.
c) He said that at an early age he had decided to discover the site of the city.
d) He said that for many years he had worked as a merchant in the USA and Russia.
e) He said that he was a wealthy man and had retired from business.
f) He said that he had first gone to the site at Hissarlik in 1868.
g) He said that since then he had spent a lot of his own money on the excavation.
h) He said that he was working with a British archaeologist.
i) He said that they were hoping to prove that Hissarlik was the site of ancient Troy.
5. Read the statement from a news conference held at an archaeological site. Then answer the questions.
a) she told the journalists that she was the director of the dig.
b) she said that she wanted to explain how they had found the site and what they had been doing there.
c) she told the journalists that she was sure they had read the publicity handout and knew something about the site.
d) she said that it was important to give them the latest information.
e) she told them that she was going to describe some of the interesting discoveries they had made.
f) she said that she would give a general account of the project.
g) she told them that she would show some slides of the site.
h) she said that there would be a chance for them to look at some fascinating objects.
i) she told them that they had brought some of the more spectacular finds.
j) she said that the objects were waiting for them in the room next door.
k) she told them that they would be able to take photographs.
l) she said that they had been very patient.
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