IV. Ask one another questions about your daily activities using the cues below. Answer the questions and report the questions and answers in indirect speech

II. Change the following direct questions into indirect according to the examples. Answer the questions and report the answers. Mind the pronouns and the word order.

Example. What do you usually do on Sundays in winter? Sally, ask Peter what he usually does on Sundays in winter.

Sally: Peter, can you tell me what you usually do on Sundays in winter?

Peter: Usually I go skating or skiing.

Sally: Peter says that he goes skating or skiing.

Sally asked Peter what he usually did on Sundays in winter. He answered that he usually went skiing or skating.

1. Are there any new houses in your street? 2. Who washes up the dishes in your family? 3. Have you an English-Russian dictionary? 4. Is there enough ink in your fountain-pen? 5. How many large lakes are there in Great Britain? 6. Where do you put your scissors? I can’t find them. 7. Do you play the guitar? I saw one hanging in your room. 8. Have you informed the group about the time of the lecture? 9. Can you lend me your umbrella? I have left mine at my sister’s. 10. Have you been waiting for me long? 11. When did you finish school? 12. How did you manage to repair your apartment so quickly? Did anyone help you? 13. Did Sidney see off his sister yesterday? 14. Did you meet David in Yalta? I believe you stayed at the same hotel. 15. What do you think we shall be doing at this time next year? 16. I missed the lecture in English literature the day before yesterday. Will you show me your notes? 17. In about a months the bridge will be completed. Will the road to the station be any shorter? 18. Why are you so often late for classes? 19. Do you often work in the language laboratory or do you prefer working at home? 20. Who is the best student in your group? 21. When did you last go to the theatre? 22. Are you fond of classical music? 23. You are not feeling well, are you? Why don’t you consult a doctor? 24, Has it been raining all day? The grass is all wet. 25. Were you taking a bath? I knew you were at home but you did not hear the telephone ring, did you?

III. Change the following statements into questions, answer the questions and report the questions and answers in indirect speech.

Example. I don’t read books in the tram. I read newspapers.

What did A. say he read in the tram?

He said he didn’t read books. He read newspapers.

1. I don’t listen to the radio in the morning. I listen to it in the evening. 2. I don’t go to the office on foot, usually I take the underground to get there. 3. I don’t like to play football, I like to play hockey. 4. I don’t get up early on Sundays. I get up at 10 or thereabout. 5. I don’t like to write letters, I prefer to type them. 6. I don’t go home by bus, I take the underground. 7. I don’t stay in town over the week-end. I go to the country. 8. I don’t like skating, I like skiing.

Example. To wake up

A. What time do you wake up?

B. I wake up at seven o’clock.

C. A. asked B. what time he woke up. B. answered that he woke up at seven o’clock.

to take a shower, to comb one’s hair, to shave, to dress, to cook breakfast, to wash the dishes after breakfast, to go to the institute, to take the bus (tram, underground, taxi), to leave home, to have classes from… till…, to have an interval for lunch, to work in the reading-room, to go for a walk, to go to the skating-rink (swimming-pool, cinema, theatre), to go to bed

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