Assignment 4

Unit 4 Student’s name: Tomas Salas

Watch the segment and check who says these lines in the movie : The Purple Rose of Cairo

Link to the movie segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAOx1QS5CkI

T – TomR – RitaC – Cecilia

1. ( T) I was in an Egyptian Tomb

2. (T ) I'll wait for that glass at the Copacabana

3. ( R) It's nothing, I'll be OK.

4. ( R) Draw my bath.

5. ( R) I can't wait to get out of these clothes.

6. ( T) I am very impressed.

7. ( T) You've been here all day.

8. ( T) This is the fifth time you're seeing this.

9. ( R) Come here quickly

10. (T ) Who are you?

11. (T ) I'm free.

Now rewrite the sentences above, using reported speech:

Example:

1. Tom said that he had been in an Egyptian tomb.

2. Tom said that he would wait for that glass at the Copacabana

3.Rita said that it was nothing and that she would be okay.

4. Rita told her to drawn her bath

5. Rita said that she couldn’t wait to get out of those clothes

6. Tom said that he was very impressed.

7. Tom told Cecilia that she had been there all day.

8. Tom told Cecilia that was the fifth time she was seeing that

9. Rita told Tom to come there quickly.

10. Tom asked Cecilia who she was.

11. Tom said that he was free.

Reporting verbs

Choose the correct reporting verb from this list and finish the reported speech for each
example.

Told Said Advised Warned Suggested Asked Offered Ordered

1. "I'd go and see a doctor if I were you," Julie said to me.

Julie advised me to go and see a doctor.

2. "Can you come and help me with this box?"

John asked me if I could come and help him with that box.

3. "This is an exam Mr. Jenkins!! Shut up now!!!"

The headmaster ordered him to shit up because that was an exam.

4. "That road is very dangerous so just be very careful!"

His mother warned him to be very careful because that road was very dangerous.

5. "Liverpool won the match last night."

The journalist said that Liverpool had won the match the night before.

6. "Why don't we go and see that new film at the cinema."

Bill suggested his group of friends to go to see that new film at the cinema.

7. "I can come and look after the children tomorrow night."

Jane offered to come and look after the children the following night.

8. "The lesson starts at six o'clock in the evening."

The teacher told us that the lesion started at six o’clock in the evening.