Reporting Statements, Questions & Instructions: You are Brian.

You met Eric this

morning. Your friend, Peter, wanted to know what you and Eric had talked about. Tell
Peter about the conversation using reported speech. (12%)

Eric: Hi, Brian. (1) Were you at the exhibition last Sunday?
Brian:Yes, I was there.
Eric:(2) Did Sally go with you?
Brian:Yes, she did. (3) But it was a pity that you didn’t come.
Eric:Yes, I wish I could have been with you, but (4) I went to the airport to meet my
grandparents.

Brian: I see. How are they?

Eric: They’re fine, thanks. (5) What was the exhibition about?
Brian:It was about IT products. (6) Go there and have a look next time!

VI. Passive Voice: Complete the essay using the correct present continuous, past continuous,
present perfect or simple future form of the verbs in brackets in the passive voice. Use capital
letters where necessary. (5%)

“Happy to be lost”

I love watching Lost. This American drama, which (1)

_________________________ (show) in many countries around the world right
now, is about a plane crash on a mysterious island in the Pacific Ocean. In the show,
the plane (2) _________________________ (fly) from Australia to the USA when
the crash happened.

I like Lost as the acting is great. In fact, some of its actors (3)
_________________________ (give) important awards and (4)
_________________________ (make) famous because of the show. I also like the
fact that actors from different countries (5) _________________________
(choose) to work together in the show. This makes Lost very different from other
series.
Proofreading
1. I’m sorry I hasn’t written for so long. It’s been
2. an very busy term, and we’ re just had exams.
3. I hope I’ve past. Tomorrow we’ll have a School
4. Council Meeting. I’m one of the representative
5. For the fourth year. I’m going to specking about
6. the school uniform. We wanted to abolish it, it’s
7. so ugly and expensive. We look more prettier if
8. we need not wear uniform . well, I must prepare my
9. speech. I promises I’ll write a letter
10. with the holiday.