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KNOWLEDGE GUIDE

ACHIEVEMENTS
TOPICS
The student reads and writes short
• Surf in the Net essays.
• Reported Statements
The student gives orders and
• Reported Questions
instructions to others
• Reported Orders / Instructions
The student sends information using
• So vs Such
e-mail messages
• Enough and Too
• The imperative The student understands about
Enough, too, so, such.

1. Complete the sentences in reported speech. Note the change of

pronouns and tenses.

▪ "Where is my umbrella?" she asked.

where her umbrella
▪ → She asked
▪ "How are you?" Martin asked us.
▪ → Martin asked us how are you
▪ He asked, "Do I have to do it?"
▪ → He asked if do i have to do it
▪ "Where have you been?" the mother asked her daughter.
▪ → The mother asked her daughter where have you been
▪ "Which dress do you like best?" she asked her boyfriend.
▪ → She asked her boyfriend that so you like the dress best
▪ "What are they doing?" she asked.
▪ → She wanted to know what are they doing
▪ "Are you going to the cinema?" he asked me.
▪ → He wanted to know if i going to the cinema
▪ The teacher asked, "Who speaks English?"
▪ → The teacher wanted to know who speak in english
▪ "How do you know that?" she asked me.
▪ → She asked me if how i do you know that
▪ "Has Caron talked to Kevin?" my friend asked me.
▪ → My friend asked me talken to kevin

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2. Complete the sentences in reported speech. Note the change of

pronouns in some sentences. (requests positive)

▪ "Stop talking, Joe," the teacher said.

▪ → The teacher told Joe stop talking
▪ "Be patient," she said to him.
▪ → She told him be patient
▪ "Go to your room," her father said to her.
▪ → Her father told her got o me room
▪ "Hurry up," she said to us.
▪ → She told us that hurry up
▪ "Give me the key," he told her.
▪ → He asked her give the key
▪ "Play it again, Sam," she said.
▪ → She asked Sam if she could play again
▪ "Sit down, Caron" he said.
▪ → He asked Caron if she could play gain
▪ "Fill in the form, Sir," the receptionist said.
▪ → The receptionist asked the guest thet fill the form
▪ "Take off your shoes," she told us.
▪ → She told us Take off the shoes
▪ "Mind your own business," she told him.
▪ → She told him mind your own business

3. Complete the sentences in reported speech. Note the change of

pronouns in some sentences.

• "Don't touch it," she said to him.

• → She told him dont touch it
• "Don't do that again," he said to me.
• → He told me that dont do that again
• "Don't talk to me like that," he said.
• → He told her dont talk to me like that
• "Don't repair the computer yourself," she warned him.
• → She warned him yourself repair the computer
• "Don't let him in," she said.
• → She told me dont let him in
• "Don't go out without me," he begged her.
• → He begged her dont go out
• "Don't forget your bag," she told me.
• → She told me that dont forget my bag
• "Don't eat in the lab," the chemistry teacher said.
• → The chemistry teacher told his students eat in the lab
• "Don't give yourself up," he advised her.
• → He advised her give yourself up

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4. Make a reported speech about the next reading.

Chapter VI

About ten minutes later, the bell rang for dinner, and, as Virginia did not come
down, Mrs. Otis sent up one of the servants. After a little time he returned and
said that he could not find Miss Virginia anywhere. So, the whole family started
looking for her.

The hours passed, but they could find no trace of Virginia. So, after dinner, Mr.
Otis ordered them all to bed, saying that nothing more could be done that night,
and that he would contact Scotland Yard in the morning. Just when everybody
was about to leave the dining-room, the clock struck midnight, and when the
last stroke sounded, a secret door opened in the wall and in that door stood
Virginia with a little box in her hand. Everybody ran up to her.

“Good heavens! child, where have you been?” said Mr. Otis, rather angrily, as
he thought she had been playing a trick on them.

“Papa,” said Virginia quietly, “I have been with the ghost. He is dead, and you
must come and see him. He had been very nasty, but he was really sorry for all
that he had done, and he gave me this box of beautiful jewels before he died.”

Then she led the others down a narrow secret corridor to a little low room.
There the family found the skeleton of Sir Simon, who had been starved to
death by his wife's brothers. Virginia knelt down beside the skeleton, and,
folding her little hands together, began to pray silently.

Meanwhile, one of the twins was looking out of the window in the little room
and suddenly said, “Look! The old almond-tree has blossoms.”

“Then God has forgiven him,” said Virginia and stood up.

Questions on the text:

When does Virginia come back home?

• Ten minutes later.

• At midnight.
• The next morning.

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Where does Virginia lead her family?

• To an old almond-tree.
• To a skeleton.
• To Scotland Yard.

How does Virginia know, that God has forgiven the ghost?

• An old tree has blossoms.

• She receives a box with jewels.
• She finds the room with the skeleton.

Find a word in the text for each definition given below.

• A meal eaten in the evening →

• A household with parents and children →

Rewrite the sentences. Using reported speech.

• The servant said, »I cannot find her.«

• The boy said, »The tree has blossoms.«
• Virginia said, »I have been with the ghost.«

So vs Such

Q1 of 10

Your sister has ____ beautiful hair.

so
such

Q2 of 10

They had never eaten ____ exotic food before.

so
such

Q3 of 10

Hal was speaking ____ quickly that no one could understand him.
so
such

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Q4 of 10
Ned has ____ much money, he doesn't know what to do with it.
so
such

Q5 of 10
It was ____ a hot day that I spent most of it in the pool.
so
such

Q6 of 10
It was ____ hot, I spent most of the day in the pool.
so
such

Q7 of 10
You are ____ a genius! How did you solve that problem?
so
such

Q8 of 10
I am _____ mad right now. My boyfriend lied to me. He is _____ a jerk!
such, so
so, so
such, such
so, such

Q9 of 10
How can there be ____ problems in the world?
so
such

Q10 of 10
There are ____ many problems in this world. Will there ever be peace?
so
such

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Enough vs Too

Q1 of 9

Heather is old ____ now to make her own decisions.

enough
too
too many
too much

Q2 of 9

My daughter has _____ shoes. There isn't _____ space in her closet for all of them.
too, enough
too much, enough
too many, enough
enough, too

Q3 of 9

You are ____ young to understand.

enough
too
too many
too much

Q4 of 9

There is ____ work for just one person.

enough
too
too many
too much

Q5 of 9

Is there ____ wine for everyone to try?

enough
too

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too many
too much

Q6 of 9

It's ____ early to go to bed.

enough
too
too many
too much

Q7 of 9

The apartment is big ____ for 3 people.

enough
too
too many
too much

Q8 of 9

There are ____ students in the classroom.

enough
too
too many
too much

Q9 of 9

There is ____ salt in this soup.

enough
too
too many
too much

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