REPORTED SPEECH - 01

Gap-fill exercise

Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!

TURN DIRECT SPEECH INTO REPORTED SPEECH OR CONVERSELY, AS THE CASE MAY BE



1. Schaeffer recalled he HAD BEEN LIVING in a hippy community in the woods in 72.
'' I in a hippy community in the woods in 72. ''

2. " Why DID YOU SET UP a solar-powered TV set in the seventies? "
The reporter asked him why a solar-powered TV set in the seventies.

3. " DON'T FIT your house with solar panels or else you WON'T GET enough hot water as the sun DOESN'T SHINE much around here ! "
We were told our house with solar panels or else we enough hot water as the sun much around here !

4. " DOES the cost estimate INCLUDE folding solar panels ? "
I’d like to know if the cost estimate folding solar panels.
I wanted to know if the cost estimate folding solar panels.

5. " We now HANDLE more questions about alternative energy systems in a single day than we DID last year. "
The technician insisted they now more questions about alternative energy systems in a single day than they the year before.