Complete the reported imperatives and requests.
1 "Please switch off your mobile phones."
The flight attendant told us
2 Be patient!"
The teacher told us
3 "Open your mouth."
The dentist told me
4 "Don't tell the girls!"
Jessica told us
5 "Please don't drive so fast!"
I asked the taxi driver
6 "Could you show me your passport?"
The policeman asked me
7 "Don't talk if your mouth is full!"
I told my daughter
8 "Can you bring me the bill, please?"
He asked the waiter
9 "Get off at the next stop."
The bus driver told me
10 "Don't wait."
Our friends told us
Put in the right words.
I like this because it means I can read a book or a newspaper. On the Continent, everybody wants to tell you his life story. Some years ago I travelled by train from London to Paris. It was my first visit to Paris so I made up my mind to tour round France for my holidays. As I was going on a long journey I took a lot of books with me. There was an Englishman in the compartment with me and, in a typically English way, he did not speak a word during our journey through the English countryside or while crossing the Channel. But the minute we were in France he said, “Ah, now we are in France, we can talk.” And for the rest of the trip to Paris he told me his life story.