1. Передайте следующие предложения в косвенной речи. Помните о замене глагола «say» другими соответствующими глаголами, где это необходимо.
1. Father said to Jane: “Show me your exercise-book.”
2. “What are you doing here, boys?” said Kate.
3. “Don’t make noise,” said Tom’s mother to him.
4. Helen said to Pete: “Did you play chess with your father yesterday?”
5. Kate said to her grandmother: “Help me to cook the soup, please.”
6. Mike said to the teacher: “My sister knows two foreign languages.”
7. “What have you prepared for today, children?” said to the teacher.
8. Tom said to his sister: “I saw your friend at the library yesterday.”
9. The teacher said to the pupils: “Don’t open your books.”
10. Mother said to me: “You will go to the cinema tomorrow.”
11. “Tom, go to bed,” said his mother.
12. “I have never seen your toys,” said Nellie to Pete.
13. “Give me your record-book, Nick,” said the teacher.
14. Ann said to Lena: “Look at my nice kitten.”
15. “We shall go to the zoo tomorrow,” said our grandmother.
16. Mother said to Pete: “Don’t forget to wash your hands.
17. Nick said to his mother: “I am doing my homework.”
18. “I have learnt a long poem,” said Mike to the teacher.
19. “Don’t play in the street,” said the man to the boys.
20. “Why don’t you drink your tea?” said my mother to me.
21. “When did you receive this letter?” my friend said to me.
22. “I saw my friend at the stadium yesterday,” said Johnny to his mother.
23. “Will you play football with us?” said the boys to Peter.
24. “Are you playing volley-ball, girls?” said Ann.
25. “Is the river Volga in Russia?” asked the Frenchman.
2. Передайте предложения в косвенной речи.
1. He said, “Bernard Shaw was given the Noble Prize for Literature in 1925”.
2. “When will the Music Festival take place in Edinburgh?”, she asked.
3. He said, “I shan’t be able to attend the meeting tomorrow”.
4. Are you going to visit your parents on Sunday?” they asked me.
5. My friend said to me, “Please, wait for me a little”.
6. “How long were you doing your homework?” the teacher asked us.
7. My friend said to me, “I know that you are going to take part in our scientific conference”.
8. She said, “I have already met this man”.
9. “Can you help me to translate this article?” my brother asked me.
10. The students said, “We have passed our exam in History”.
11. “Were you born in Moscow?” he asked me.
12. The teacher said to us, “Please bring your dictionaries for the next lesson”.
13. He said, “I didn’t watch TV yesterday”.
14. He said to us, “Don’t tell anybody about it”.
15. “What foreign languages do you study at your school?” she asked.
3. Передайте предложения в косвенной речи.
He asked me,
1) “Where does your sister live?”
2) “How long have you studied English?”
3) “How old are you?”
4) “Do you like to study at the University?”
5) “What time is it?”
6) “Where does she work?”
7) When will he visit his friends?”
8) “Does she know history well?”
9) “What is her husband’s name?”
10) “Why hasn’t she passed her last exam?”
It was Saturday. Tom was free from school. He wanted to go to the river but he had to paint the fence around Aunt Polly’s house.
He started to paint but soon he was tired. Then he had an idea. When his friend Ben Rogers came, he was working with pleasure. There was a big smile on his face. Ben saw that Tom liked his job. He wanted to paint the fence, too. Tom let him do it and Ben gave him an apple.
Then Tom's friend Billy Fisher came and Tom let him paint the fence, too. By the afternoon, the fence was painted twice and Tom had many wonderful things.
Была суббота. Том был свободен от школы. Он хотел пойти к реке, но ему пришлось красить забор вокруг дома тети Полли.
Он начал красить, но вскоре устал. Затем у него появилась идея. Когда пришел его друг Бен Роджерс, Том работал с удовольствием. На его лице была большая улыбка. Бен увидел, что Тому нравилась его работа. Он захотел красить забор, тоже. Том позволил ему сделать это, и Бен дал Тому яблоко.
Потом пришел друг Тома, Билли Фишер и Том позволил ему покрасить забор, тоже. Ко второй половине дня, забор был окрашен на два раза, и у Тома было много замечательных вещей.
2. The camels used to be called the "ships of the desert".
3. Because it was unsafe for the pilots as they had to to sit or lie on the wings in the open air and also the plane engines sometimes could suddenly stop when the plane was in the middle of a trip. Additionally, in cold weather the wings frequently became icy which could result in a plane crash.
4. No, they didn't. It was impossible to fly in bad weather.
5. Yes, they are. Further improvements have made air travels safe and comfortable.