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SPEAKING TASK.

RECORD YOUR VOICE DESCRIBING AND COMPARING THE TWO PHOTOGRAPHS BELOW. YOU HAVE TO COMPARE OLD AND NEW TIMES. TALK BOUT THE MASS MEDIA. 

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VERB TENSES REVIEW

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LISTENING. A TALK ABOUT MOTIVATION.

B2. LISTENING EXERCISE. BY THE BRITISH COUNCIL.

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REPORTED SPEECH EXERCISES WITH KEY.

ECHO QUESTIONS AND QUESTION TAGS.

EXERCISE ONE EXERCISE TWO EXERCISE THREE ECHO QUESTIONS We use echo questions to show interest or surprise. For this purpose, the listener makes a short question using the auxiliar or helping verb of the statement the speaker has just said. EXAMPLE: S: She is visiting relatives at this moment. L. Is she? S: They bought a new Television set last week. L.    Did they? S: I live in the centre of New York. L. Do you? S: Alan´s got a job as a lifeguard. L. Has he? QUESTION TAGS These short questions are used to check information. We use a positive statement followed by a negative tag when we expect the answer YES. E.g. "You are American, aren't you?" We use a negative statement followed by a positive tag when we expect the answer NO. E.g. "They haven't arrived yet, have they?" EXAMPLES: I told you, didn't I? It'll be sunny tomorrow, won't it? He can't dive, can he? They don't eat meat, do they? She cooks well, doesn't she? I am slim, aren't I?

REPORTED SPEECH

Reported speech (1)

When we report someone’s words we can do it in two ways. We can use direct speech with quotation marks (“I work in a bank”), or we can use reported speech (He said he worked in a bank.)
In reported speech the tenses, word-order and pronouns may be different from those in the original sentence.
Present simple and present continuous tenses

• Direct speech: “I travel a lot in my job” Reported speech: He said that he travelled a lot in his job.

The present simple tense (I travel) usually changes to the past simple (he travelled) in reported speech.

• Direct speech: “Be quiet. The baby’s sleeping.” Reported speech: She told me to be quiet because the baby was sleeping.

The present continuous usually changes to the past continuous.
NB:

• “I work in Italy” Reported speech: He told me that he works in Italy.

It isn’t always necessary to change the tense. If something is still true now – he still works in Italy – we can use the present simple in the reported sentence.
Past simple and past continuous tenses

• Direct speech: “We lived in China for 5 years.” Reported speech: She told me they had lived in China for 5 years.

The past simple tense (we lived) usually changes to the past perfect (they had lived) in reported speech.

• Direct speech: “I was walking down the road when I saw the accident.” Reported speech: He told me he’d been walking down the road when he’d seen the accident.

The past continuous usually changes to the past perfect continuous.
Perfect tenses

• Direct speech: “They’ve always been very kind to me”. Reported speech: She said they’d always been very kind to her.

The present perfect tense (have always been) usually changes to the past perfect tense (had always been).

• Direct speech: “They had already eaten when I arrived” Reported speech: He said they’d already eaten when he’d arrived.

The past perfect tense does not change in reported speech.
You can find more information about reported speech in another section.

 Reported speech (2)

Remember that in reported speech we usually change the tense of the direct statement. The present simple tense changes to the past simple, the past simple changes to the past perfect and so on.
Here are some other points to consider.
‘Can’ and ‘will’

• Direct speech: “I can’t remember his name.” Reported speech: She said she couldn’t remember his name.

‘Can’ and ‘can’t’ in direct speech change to ‘could’ and ‘couldn’t’ in reported speech.

• Direct speech: “I’ll be there for 3 weeks.” Reported speech: He told me he’d be there for 3 weeks.

‘Will’ and ‘won’t’ in direct speech change to ‘would’ and ‘wouldn’t’ in reported speech.
Other modal verbs

• Direct speech: “You could be right.” Reported speech: I said that he could be right.
• Direct speech: “You must call me.” Reported speech: She said that I must call her.

Other modal verbs don’t change in reported speech.
Reporting orders, requests and advice

• Direct speech: “Sit down and shut up!” Reported speech: The teacher told me to sit down and shut up.
• Direct speech: “Can you hold this for me please?” Reported speech: He asked me to hold it.
• Direct speech: “You should do more exercise.” Reported speech: He advised me to do more exercise.

Orders, request and advice can be reported using an infinitive.
Reporting verbs
There are a number of verbs that we use to report statements. These can make your speech and writing more interesting than simply reporting every word of the direct speech.

• Direct speech: “It wasn’t me who broke the window.” > He denied breaking the window.
• Direct speech: “I’ll help you if you want” > She offered to help.

There are a number of verbs that can be used to report. They include: promise, claim, suggest, advise, refuse, argue, confirm and others.

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EXERCISE 1
EXERCISE 2
EXERCISE 3

HAVE SOMETHING DONE

Have something done  

(from www.englishgrammarsecretes.com)

If you 'have something done', you get somebody else to do something for you.

• I'm going to have my hair cut.
• She's having her house redecorated.
• I'm having a copy of the report sent to you

In informal English, we can replace 'have' by 'get'.

• We're getting a new telephone system installed.
• They will be getting the system repaired as quickly as they can.
• I got the bill sent direct to the company.

We can also use 'have/got something done' in situations where something bad has happened to people or their possessions. This is not something they wanted to happen.

• John had all his money stolen from his hotel bedroom.
• We had our car damaged by a falling tree.
• I got my nose broken playing rugby.

EXERCISE ONE
EXERCISE TWO
EXERCISE THREE 

 

CONDITIONAL TENSES CHECK.

Hello! Today we have some nice video classes about the Conditional Sentences with the Educa Puppets by our workmate teacher Oscar. I´m sure you will enjoy tham as you study a little bit of English.

THE FIRST CONDITIONAL:

THE ZERO CONDITIONAL:

THE SECOND CONDITIONAL:

THE THIRD CONDITIONAL: