REPORTED SPEECH EXERCISES 1. “The rivers in my home village are very big, deep, wide and long” said Hoa. ……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 2. “The restaurants around here are cheap and popular to customers” he said to his uncle. ……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 3. “I don’t have his telephone numbers because I haven’t copy it in my address book,” said Mary. ………………………………………………………………………………………………. 4. “She has been teaching us English for 5 years,” Tuan said to his new friend. ………………………………………………………………………………………………. 5. “Maryam is really impressed by the beauty of Hanoi and its people’s friendliness,” said Lan ………………………………………………………………………………………………. 6. “English is the language that is widely spoken all over the world,” Nga remarked ……………………………………………………………………………………………… 7. “I haven’t prepared my lessons yet and I don’t know if I can pass the final exam,” Tuan said to me. ………………………………………………………………………………………………. 8. “The people are Canadian, who come here to do their reach on mineral lands,” said a tourist guide. ……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 9. “Our earth goes around the Sun and the sun rises in the east and sets in the west,” their teacher explained. ……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 10. “He can share this room with you because the other rooms have been booked in advance by customers,” he said to me. ……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 11. “Can she speak two languages English and Spanish?” they asked me. ……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 12. “Can you show me the way to the post office?” a foreigner asked Hoa ………………………………………………………………………………………………. 13. “Have you ever met a person like this?” she asked her brother. ………………………………………………………………………………………………. 14. “Do you know how to get to the downtown area from here?” a stranger asked Ba ………………………………………………………………………………………………. 15. “Should we invite your father to join our party?” she asked Peter. ………………………………………………………………………………………………. 16. “Do you ever stay at home alone?” her aunt asked her. ………………………………………………………………………………………………. 17. “Had he finished his homework before he went to bed last night?” he asked his wife. ……………………………………………………………………………………………… 18. “Will you do it by yourself?” She asked me. “Yes. I will” I said to her. ……………………………………………………………………………………………… 19. “Will you leave here the day after tomorrow?” Hoa said to her aunt. ……………………………………………………………………………………………… 20. “Did you watch me perform on TV two days ago?” he said to his mother. ……………………………………………………………………………………………… 21. “Does he remember what he promised with us last week?” the monitor asked her classmates. ……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 22. “Have they made this poster by themselves?” our form teacher asked the monitor. ……………………………………………………………………………………………….. REPORTED SPEECH EXERCISES 23. “Why were they absent from class yesterday?” she said to me. .................................................................................................................................................. 24. “When will they answer my letter?” she asked me. ……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 25. “How many of you finished your math home work?” our math teacher asked us. ……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 26. “Whose newspapers are these?” the hotel servant asked a guest. ………………………………………………………………………………………………. 27. “Which parts of the country can people grow the wet rice plant?” a foreigner asked a Vietnamese scientist. ……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 28. “Where can we meet to discuss our assignments tomorrow?” the monitor asked her classmates. ……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 29. “With whom did you go to the concert last night?” my uncle asked me ……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 30. “How did Ba, Nam and Hoa travel to Hanoi last summer?” I said to Mai ………………………………………………………………………………………………