NI1- Reported Speech

MARY: What are you going to do this evening?

JANE: I’m going to the new pub.

MARY: Where is that pub?

JANE: It is near here.

MARY: Do you like it?

JANE: I love it. I went yesterday too. …

MARY: What’s so special about it?

JANE: I’ve met a nice guy

MARY: And?

JANE: And I think I’ll go tomorrow again.




Last Friday, I talked to Jane and I asked her what she was going to do that evening.

She told me that she was going to the new pub. So I asked where that pub was and she said it was near there…

I asked her if she liked it and she told me she loved it and that she had been there the day before too!

Then I asked her what was so special about it and she said she had met a nice guy and that she thought she would go the following day again… and ....she didn’t even invite ME!



In NI1 we are studying the indirect or reported speech. Click on the activities below to do some practice:

1. ONE

2. TWO

3. THREE

4. FOUR

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Gerund (-ing) or INFINITIVE?

Intermediate 1 (unit 5C)

Gerund Infinitive

PRACTICE (Click on each number to do three different activities)
1. ONE
2. TWO
3. THREE

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AS or LIKE?

Advanced 1


•as

She works as a tourist guide. (She is one.)
You look as your brother did when he was your age.
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•like

She knows the place like a tourist guide (but she's not one.)
Bob works like a dog (but he is NOT one!)
You look like your brother.

We use as
a) to talk about the role of somebody/something
Example:
..... He works as a computer programmer. (He is one.)
..... He used the scarf as a bandage.

b )to mean 'in the same way'. It's followed by a subject and a verb. Examples:
You think as your father did.
Our store will open on 25 December, as we usually do.

c) to compare two people or things:
You are as smart as your sister.

ALSO:

d)To give a reason (because)
As he was tired he left earlier.

e) Meaning 'while':
As I was leaving he arrived.


We use like
- to talk about similarity
Example: He uses the computer like a computer programmer (but he's not one).

- to mean 'in the same way'. It's followed by an object, or by a subject and a verb. Examples:
You think like your father.
Our store will open on 25 December, like we usually do.

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The Media (Video)

Gore Vidal is a novelist, essayist, playwright, and provocateur whose career has spanned six decades, beginning in the years immediately following World War II and continuing into the early years of the twenty-first century. In addition to a major sequence of seven novels about American history, and such satirical novels as MYRA BRECKINRIDGE and DULUTH, he has written dozens of television plays, film scripts, and even three mystery novels written under a pseudonym. He has also written well over a hundred essays, gathered in several volumes published between 1962 and 2001. Taken as a whole, this seemingly varied work has an uncanny unity, exhibiting a tone of easy familiarity with the world of politics and letters, an urbane wit, and a supreme self-confidence on the part of the writer. Vidal’s lineage in American literature may be traced back to Henry James, the sophisticated American from the upper echelons of society who mingles with European sophisticates, and Mark Twain, the raw humorist and critic of American empire.

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When do we use THE and when do we omit it ?

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Once upon a time a boy met a girl in the centre of the city.
They had an ice cream together, and then they went to the cinema to see a fill. The film was called Eleven Years.