REPORTED SPEECH - 03

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. " The team of six biospherians WILL SPEND 10 months inside the glass-and-steel structure. "
Scientists hoped the team of six biospherians 10 months inside the glass-and-steel structure.

2. " DOES the new team’s entry MARK a change in emphasis for the project? "
The reporter would like to know if the new team’s entry a change in emphasis for the project.
He asked if the new team’s entry a change in emphasis for the project.

3. " The basic operational systems HAVE BEEN WORKED OUT so the project CAN FOCUS on research that MUST TRANSFORM the imitation world into a laboratory for global ecology. "
John Corliss declared the basic operational systems so the project on research that the imitation world into a laboratory for global ecology.


4. " The first biospherians HAVE EMERGED rather thinner than when they WENT in. "
The scientific team said that the first biospherians rather thinner than when they in.

5. The oceanographer wants to know when the corals STARTED to deteriorate.
" When the corals to deteriorate ? "

6. " DON'T GENERATE so much moisture for desert plants, or they WILL all DIE! "
He warned them so much moisture for desert plants, or they all !

7. The geochemist announced that the population of soil bacteria WAS PROLIFERATING massively because the soil in the glasshouse HAD BEEN MADE too rich.
" The population of soil bacteria massively because the soil in the glasshouse too rich. "