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Reported Speech : Commands-Questions-Statements.

Michel:
'Stop that car' 'Call my sister!' 'Don't write on the wall' 'Bring me that letter' 'Turn on the computer' 'Don't close the window' 'Open the door' 'Stay here later' 'Write this e-mail for me Peter' 'Change that present for tomorrow' 'Yesterday I went to the park with my friends' 'Tomorrow I 'm going to a party' 'She called me at 5 o'clock' 'They have been to England' 'She will go to another school' 'Mark is going to study Medicine' 'Jake bough a new car' 'Rick watched tv' 'Luke will see a movie tomorrow' 'I don't want to go to school' 'She hasn't finished her homework yet' 'I've bought new shoes!' 'Peter and Max won the championship' 'Mandy made a delicious cake'

'I wont practise for the exam' 'They didn't surf on the net' 'They haven't drunk a glass of water for 2 hours' 'I wouldn't go to that place!' 'She will travel by plane to Paris' 'He won't win the lottery this time'

Questions tags:

He is from Italy___________? She went to the party____________? You havent been to Paris______________? She will go to Spain,___________________? She has worked for 8 hours___________________? He wouldnt go there,_______________________? Frank didnt study English___________? She is a perfect student_________________? They arent my friends_______________? He hasnt watched tv___________________? Sammy studies English__________________? Luke doesnt play tennis___________________? Ruby wont go to that party,____________________? We get up at 7,_______________? Hell read a book,________________? Complete with the verbs in Brackets:Passive Voice

Complete with the verbs between brackets in the passive voice (present simple or past simple)

The telephone is a device which

(use) million times every day. It seems so

incredible that you can speak into the receiver and your words the other end. Nowadays, communication messages

(hear) on

(make) very quickly and

(send) all around the world.

But what telephone

(know) about Alexander Graham Bell, the man which the (invent) by?

Bell He Bell

(born) into a family who were specialists in teaching elocution. (train) and

(teach) by his father and grandfather. In 1864

(employ) as a master in Elgin's Weston House Academy in

Scotland. His first studies in sound transmitting speech with electricity

(conduct) here and the idea of . (conceive)

His family moved to Canada in 1870 after his two brothers

(kill) by

tuberculosis. After spending some time in Boston, lecturing and demonstrating the Visible Speech system which

(invent) by his father.

In 1872 his own school to train teachers for the deaf continued studying and teaching until he

, (open) He

(make) a Professor at the

University of Boston. However the idea of transmitting speech along a wire never left him, a device electricity

(develop) with a simple receiver in which (turn) into sound.

On 6 April 1875, Bell work

(grant) the patent for his telegraph, but his

(finish) on his telephone. The final breakthrough

(cause) by an accident that occurred while he was working on a circuit with one transmitter and two receivers on 2 June 1875. The transmitter

(switch)

off and Watson, his assistant, was adjusting one of the receivers when Bell heard a note coming from the receiver in his room. With the transmitter turned off, the note had to be coming from the other receiver. He had discovered that the receiver could also work in reverse: instead of making sound when electricity (send) through it, it also made electricity when it

(supply) with sound

because the sound moved the magnet in the coil and electricity was generated. More importantly, the electricity

(vary) with the voice.

His system

(develop) and

(submit) for patent on 14

February 1876. The patent telephone exchange Company


(grant) on 7 March. Within a year the first (build) in Connecticut and The Bell Telephone

(create) in 1877, with Bell the owner of a third of the 5,000

shares. Stock in the company soared from $50 to over $1,000 a share within three years. Alexander Graham Bell was not yet 30 years old.

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