SUBJECT: ENGLISH TEACHER: JAIRO ANDRES ORTIZ LEYVA

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STUDENT: CLASS: NINTH
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Before getting ready with these set of 9 “This food is too spicy.”
exercises, I strongly recommend you to have a Ashley complained
look through the following sites on the net to ______________________.
rainforest your weaknesses. 10 “Please notice that the liquid is turning
green.”
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/grammar-
The teacher pointed
reference/reported-speech-1
out_________________.

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-
up/grammar/reported-speech PART 2.
Complete the reported questions.

Be ready to explain any part of what you can 11 “Have you been on vacation?”
find in the previous site. Mrs. Roberts asked _____________ we
_____________ on vacation.
Part 1 12 “Do you have enough room?”
Rewrite the sentences in reported speech. She asked us __________________ enough
room.
“Where’s Canada?”
1 13 “Does it cost a lot of money?”
She asked Anna wondered __________________ a lot of
___________________________. money.
2 “Yes, you’re right. It is nice.” 14 “Will you help me?”
He agreed Paula asked me __________________ her.
___________________________. 15 “Can I get you something to drink?”
3 “Liam, you have to take your malaria pills.” She asked __________________ me
Mom reminded something to drink.
______________________. Part 3.
4 “OK, Mom, I’ll take them every day.” Report the following requests
Liam promised She said, "Go upstairs."
________________________. → She told me__________________________ _
5 “Kyle, I don’t think it’s a good idea.” __
Bella "Close the door behind you," he told me.
warned___________________________. → He told me_____________________________
6 “John, do you want to come camping?” "Don't be late," he advised us.
Kelly invited → He advised us__________________________
___________________________. _
7 “Will you take the dog with you, please, "Stop staring at me," she said.
Lulu?” → She told him__________________________ _
Bill __
asked_____________________________. "Don't be angry with me," he said.
8 “I’ll book the tickets.” → He asked her__________________________
Louis offered
_________________________.
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"Leave me alone," she said. PART 5.

→ She told me__________________________ _
Transform the following direct question into
__
indirect.
"Don't drink and drive," she warned us.
→ She warned Do you ever know where the nearest bank is,
us __________________________ _ please?
"John, stop smoking," she said.
→ She told John __________________________ Do you know when the last train is on a
_ Saturday night?
"Don't worry about us," they said.
→ They told her__________________________ _ Could you tell me how much two tickets cost?
"Meet me at the cinema." he said.
→ He asked me __________________________ Have you any idea why you can't come in to
_ work?
Part 4 Part 6.
Match the direct and reported questions.
Complete the reported questions A–J. Write the corresponding indirect question;
1 “Can I get you something to drink?”___
Direct: Does Tom like Italian food?
2 “Would you like a magazine?” ___
Indirect: ________
3 “Do you have enough room?” ___
_______________________
4 “Should I take a jacket with me?” ___
Direct: Are your parents joining us for dinner?
5 “Are we on time?” ___
Indirect: ________
6 “Who did you see at the mall?” ___
_______________________
7 “Have you been on vacation?” ___
Direct: Do they speak English?
8 “Could you help me?” ___
Indirect: ________
9 “Did you watch that TV show?” ___
_______________________
10 “Does it cost a lot of money?” ___
Direct: Has Barbara ever studied abroad?
Indirect: ________
_______________________
A Mrs Roberts asked _____________ we
Direct: Do you plan on traveling this summer?
_____________ on vacation.
Indirect: ________
B She asked us _____________ enough room.
_______________________
C Anna wondered _____________ a lot of
money.
Part 8.
D Paula asked me _____________ help her.
E She asked me _____________ get me
Choose the best answer
something to drink.
F Sam wondered _____________ we
_____________ at the mall. Mary: "I love chocolate."
G He wondered _____________ I
_____________ a magazine. Jill: "Mary said (that) she ___ chocolate."
H She asked _____________ on time. a. loved
I Mike asked me _____________ a jacket with b. loves
him. c. loving
J He wanted to know _____________ I
_____________ that TV show. Mary: "I went skiing."

Jill: "Mary said (that) she ___ skiing."

a. went
b. had gone

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c. have gone a. has been

b. had been
Mary: "I will eat steak for dinner." c. have been

Jill: "Mary said (that) she ___ eat steak for dinner." Mary: "I had a cat."
a. willing
b. will Jill: Mary said (that) she had ___ a cat."
c. would a. have
b. has
Mary: "I have been to Sydney." c. had

Jill: "Mary said (that) she ___ to Sydney." Mary: "I can't swim."
a. had been
b. has been Jill: "Mary said (that) she ___ swim."
c. was being a. can't
b. couldn't
Mary: "I have had three cars." c. can not

Jill: "Mary said (that) she ___ three cars. Mary: "I won't buy a new car."
a. has
b. has had Jill: "Mary said (that) she ___ buy a new car."
c. had had a. won't
b. will
Mary: "I'm going to go to Long Beach." c. wouldn't

Jill: "Mary said (that) she ___ going to go to Long READING

Beach." Read the text. Then read the sentences and
a. is choose True (T) or False (F) or Not Given (?).
b. was
A vacation nightmare
c. went
This time last year, the Longo family from
Baltimore, found themselves in a vacation
Mary: "I don't like spinach." nightmare. After arriving at the airport, and waiting
patiently for two hours to go through security and
Jill: "Mary said (that) she ___ like spinach." passport control, they discovered that their
a. doesn't baggage was missing. “The airport staff had no
b. don't idea what had happened to it,” said Mrs. Longo. “It
c. didn't was terrible. There were four of us, and we didn’t
have anything except for our carry-on baggage.”
Mary: "I have never been to London." But that was only the beginning. “The bus ride
to the hotel began well,” said Mr. Longo, “but when
Jill: "Mary said (that) she ___ never been to London." we left the main highway and entered a run-down
a. had neighborhood, with half-completed roads, empty
b. has stores, and half-built houses, we started to worry.
c. have Then we saw the hotel. It was a total disaster.”
The Longo family arrived to find a large pile of
garbage outside the entrance to the hotel, and
Mary: "I was swimming."
building equipment, trucks, and construction
workers everywhere. The hotel was in such a bad
Jill: "Mary said (that) she ___ swimming. state that the tour company was trying to get it
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repaired before the guests arrived. However, it A. demanded their A. talk to the manager
was clear that there was way too much to be done. money B. find a new
The state inside the hotel was no better. back hotel
Wallpaper was hanging off the walls, there were
pails on the floor to catch water from the ceiling, B. asked to be moved B find a new hotel
and there were unfinished stairways. “Our rooms C. requested a new C. contact their tour
were awful, with dirty carpet, a toilet and shower room operator
that were both broken, a broken door, and filthy 29 They couldn’t eat 30 Mr. Longo decided
windows,” said Mrs. Longo. “We went down to the in the hotel because to ___.
reception desk to complain, but we couldn’t find a ___. A. go out for a meal
receptionist or a hotel manager for two hours. A the restaurant was and come back
When we finally found a receptionist, we closed later
demanded to be moved to another hotel, but she B the restaurant was
advised us that if there was a problem we should full C there wasn’t a B. book into a different
contact our tour company.” restaurant hotel and charge it to
And that wasn’t all. The hotel restaurant was the tour operator
closed so they decided to get a taxi into town. “We C. complain to the tour
needed to buy some basic things, operator and go home
as we had no idea when we would get our
baggage. We wanted to find a restaurant, have
dinner, and make a plan of what to do. In the end,
we booked ourselves into another hotel, and
decided to charge the bill to our tour company.” Reading 2 (higher U. 8)
Read the text. Then answer the questions
writing FULL SENTENCES.
21 The Longo family’s 22 The airport staff China’s Superman
problems started at ___. You may not have heard of Li Ka-shing, but he is
___. A. found their one of the ten richest people in the world, and it is
A. the airport baggage likely you have bought something through him or
B. the hotel B. were rude from him without realizing it. He is chairman of the
C. security Cheung Kong Group, a globally successful
C. didn’t know where business group that includes banking,
their bags were construction, property, plastics, cell phones,
satellite television, cement production, drugstores
23 The family began 24 The hotel was in a and supermarkets, hotels, transportation, airports,
to worry when they mess because it was electric power, steel production, ports, and
___. ___. shipping.
A. got near to the A. being built But his story is not only one of great
hotel B. old achievement and success in business. The
B. got on the bus C. getting repaired challenges of his past have helped him become
C. saw the hotel the person he is today. Li Ka-shing was born in
China, but because of troubles there in the 1940s,
25 Inside the hotel, 26 Mr. Longo ___. his family couldn’t stay so they moved to Hong
they were ___. A. didn’t complain Kong. He looked for work, and when he couldn’t
A. painting the stairs B. complained find anything on his own, he managed to get a job
B. hanging wallpaper C. called the tour selling watches in his uncle’s store. He didn’t need
C. washing the floor company to work there long for everyone to realize that he
was a first-class salesman.
27 When they found a 28 The receptionist When he was only 21, he started a factory
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he had managed to make himself a very rich man
from selling them. When people asked him if he
had been lucky he used to say, “No, I wasn't lucky.
I worked hard to achieve the goals I set for
myself,” so he clearly thought that he hadn’t
needed luck.
After nine years, Li wasn’t able to continue
renting his flower factory because the owner didn’t
agree to it. If he wanted to continue with his
factory, he needed to buy the land himself, so
that’s what he did. He managed to buy land when
it was very cheap. This is how he managed to
become super-rich later because land prices just
went up and up and up.
After that, he never looked back and moved
into other areas of business, such as ports, cell-
phone companies, and electricity. But as well as
making money, Li Ka-shing has also dedicated
much of his time to helping people less fortunate
than himself. He set up the Li Ka Shing foundation,
an organization which works to improve education
and healthcare for those who need it. It isn’t
surprising that some people in Hong Kong call him
“superman.”
1 Why is Li Ka-shing famous?
__________________________________
2 Name four kinds of businesses he has.
_________________________________
3 Why did his family move to Hong Kong?
__________________________________
4 What wasn’t he able to do when he first arrived
in Hong Kong?
__________________________________
5 What was his first job?
_________________________________
6 What did he do when he was 21?
__________________________________
7 How did he say he achieved success in this first
business?
__________________________________
8 Why did Li Ka-shing buy the land his factory
was on?
_________________________________
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9 What did he do after that?
__________________________________
10 What does the Li Ka Shing foundation do?
__________________________________
READING # 3, (test 7-8.)
Read the text. Then answer the questions writing full
sentences.
The first cell phone?
Silbo Gomero is a kind of language, but you won’t
find many people speaking it. Actually, nobody speaks
it, they whistle it, and the only place where they do
this is on the Spanish Canary Island of La Gomera, off
the coast of North Africa.
A few years ago, Silbo Gomero was dying out, but
in schools on La Gomera it is now being taught as a
compulsory subject to all children, so they can learn
about their island’s history and culture. The people
who speak it well these days are generally very old.
They use it to do things like calling a friend, a husband,
or wife.
In fact, people used to communicate quite
complicated messages in Silbo, as the language
contains four whistled vowels, four whistled
consonants, and over 4,000 whistled words. What you
need to do to “speak” Silbo well is master all the
different tones it contains, and realize that in many
ways it is similar to Spanish. It has a similar rhythm to
Spanish, and uses Spanish grammar.
In the past, Silbo was extremely useful on La
Gomera. It is a rocky, mountainous place with lots of
valleys and hills, so it was difficult to travel around and
to meet up with people. The tones of Silbo could be
heard four kilometers away, and one person would
hear them and whistle them on to the next person. In
this way, messages could be sent over considerable
distances. The language was passed on from parents to
their children, and some people were so skilled at it
that they could pass messages on from one end of the
island to the other. People whistled Silbo especially to
help them with their work as farmers on the island to
say things like “shut the gate” or “I’ve lost some
sheep.” You can see why some researchers think of
Silbo as an early kind of cell phone.
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Silbo originated around the time the islands were
invaded by the Spanish in the 15th century. Some
experts say it came from Morocco, which is very close
to the Canaries. Other places have their own whistling
languages: Greece, Turkey, Mexico, and China, for
example, but none seems to be as developed or
elaborate as Silbo Gomero.
1 Where is the language of Silbo Gomero used?
____________________________________
____________________________________
2 What is now happening in schools on the island of
Gomera?
____________________________________
____________________________________
3 Why is this happening?
____________________________________
____________________________________
4 Who generally speaks Silbo Gomero?
____________________________________
____________________________________
5 What does the language contain?
____________________________________
____________________________________
6 What is the landscape on the island like?
____________________________________
____________________________________
7 Why is the language appropriate for the landscape?
____________________________________
____________________________________
8 How did people learn the language?
____________________________________
____________________________________
9 How did the language benefit farmers?
____________________________________
____________________________________
10 According to experts, where did Silbo Gomero
come from, and when?
____________________________________
____________________________________
LISTENING AND SPEAKING
Look at the following video and answer the
following questions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zeb-k-
XzaI#t=575
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1. What’s the speaker intention when he
says: “You’re worth more than Diamonds”?
2. What can you learn from the Speaker’s
Talk?
3. Prepare an exposition (4 to 5 minutes
long) about the video showing the main
aspects or the things that were the most
important for you.
The presentation has to have Visual
material such as posters and messages
and so on.
WRITING
Before getting started on your writing assignments, I
strongly recommend you to check up the following
page:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/56169389/First-
Certificate-Expert-Course-Book-New-2008
Essay explanation: page number 203
Report Explanation: page number 204
1. You work for a newspaper agency, your
boss has asked you to write a REPORT
about the best activity to do on
Saturday nights in the busy city Bogotá
The report will be part published next week.
Write your answer in the separate answer sheet.
Write your answer in an appropriate style.
Number of words: up to 120.
2. LCB School is organising a competition
on writing skills, you have been given a
topic to write down an essay about the
following statement “everyone should
have access Internet anywhere,
anytime, no matter how private or public
it is”
Format: Essay
Number of words: 120 – 190
Write your answer in the separate answer sheet.
Write your answer in an appropriate style.
Number of words: 120 - 190
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