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Lesson 5 - Group B - Reported Speech

This document provides examples for reporting statements from direct to indirect speech. It includes 17 examples of direct quotes and their reported equivalents. It then provides a short article about research finding that the internet is changing how people store memories externally rather than internally. It includes true/false questions and a synonym matching exercise related to the article. Finally, it prompts the reader to write about their own memory abilities and someone they know with good or poor memory.

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Lesson 5 - Group B - Reported Speech

This document provides examples for reporting statements from direct to indirect speech. It includes 17 examples of direct quotes and their reported equivalents. It then provides a short article about research finding that the internet is changing how people store memories externally rather than internally. It includes true/false questions and a synonym matching exercise related to the article. Finally, it prompts the reader to write about their own memory abilities and someone they know with good or poor memory.

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LESSON 5 (group B)- reported speech

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Ex.1
Report the following statements:

1. “I read a book per month”.


James said that he read a book per month
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2. “I go to the cinema on Saturdays.”
Peter said that he went to the cinema on Saturdays
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3. “Teachers don’t like noise.”
Maria said that teachers didn´t like noise
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4. “We are very calm.”
They said that they were very calm.
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5. “We don’t want to watch TV.”
The children said that they didn´t want to TV
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6. “I don’t like horror films.”
Charles said that they didn´t like horror films
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7. “I don’t like TV. I prefer cinema.”
Joshua said that he didn’t like TV but that he preferred the
cinema. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
8. “The church is just around the corner.”
Mrs. Robins said that the church was just around the corner.
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9. “This is my favourite film.”
Barbara said that was her favourite film.
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10. “Sara likes to chew gum when she is at the cinema.”
Peter said that Sara liked to chew gum when she was at the
cinema.----------------------------------------------------------------
11. “Girls prefer fashion magazines.”
He said ---that girls preferred fashion
magazines.---------------------------------------------------------------------------
12. “Boys like to buy car magazines. They don’t like girlish magazines.”
Tom said -------that boys liked to buy car magazines and that they
didn’t like girlish
magazines.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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13. “I buy this magazine every weekend.”
Brenda said -that she bought that magazine every
weekend.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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14. “We enjoy our classes.”
They said ----
that they enjoyed their
classes.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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15. “This place is absolutely fabulous.”
Samantha said -that that place was absolutely
fabulous.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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16. “These cars don’t work.”
Daniel said ----that those cars didn’t
work-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
17. “Today is my birthday.”
Carl said -that that day was his
birthday---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Read this article and answer the T/F questions.


“THE INTERNET IS CHANGING OUR MEMORY”
New research suggests the Internet is changing our memory.
Researchers from Colombia University presented people with different
questions and found many began to think of computers. Lead researcher Dr
Betsy Sparrow said that when test participants knew the answers would
be available on a computer, they did less well on the memory tests. She
said we use the Internet as a new “transactive memory”. We rely on this to
do the remembering for us. It‟s similar to our personal data being backed
up on a hard disk. The Internet acts as a huge storage device for all the
world‟s knowledge, that is there when we need it. Dr Sparrow said
computers were not making us less intelligent. “I don't think Google is
making us stupid. We're just changing the way that we're remembering
things,” she said.

Dr Sparrow believes we are becoming very good at remembering where we


keep information in different folders on our computers. She said: "This
suggests that for the things we can find online, we tend to keep it online as
far as memory is concerned - we keep it externally stored." She explained
that because we are remembering the location of the information,
rather than the information itself, we are becoming better at organising huge
quantities of data and facts in a more accessible way. She also said the
way we use technology is changing our need to remember things,
saying: “If you can find stuff online even while you're walking down the
street these days, then the skill to have, the thing to remember is where to
go to find the information."

Ex.2 TRUE / FALSE: Read the headline. Guess if a-h below are true
(T) or false (F).

a. The Internet is changing how we remember the past. T/F

b. People doing a test did less well when they knew answers were
online. T/F

c. There is a new kind of memory called “transitional memory”. T/


F

d. A researcher says Google is making us more stupid. T/F


e. The researcher said folders help us remember where we put data.
T/F

f. The researcher said we remember the info location and not the
info. T/F

g. She said we are getting better at organizing huge amounts of info.


T/F

h. The researcher said we need to store memories of streets. T/F

Ex. 3 SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from


the article.

1. suggests F a. depend

2 different G b. talent

3. rely A c.
enormous

4. huge C d. thinks

5. intelligent I e. things

6. believes D f. proposes

7. tend to H g. a variety
8. quantities J h. have a
habit of

9. stuff E i. clever

10. skill B j. amounts

Ex.4
Do you have a good memory? What things do you
find it easy / hard to remember?
Write a few sentences about a person you know who’s
very forgetful or about someone with an incredibly
good memory.

I have a very bad memory, I never gave poetry at school,


because I could not learn, but I have a habit of writing
everything down and it is much more effective than
remembering.
But my older brother has a very good memory, for
example, he remembers a lot of phone numbers and the
date of birth of relatives.
Fortunately, I have no friends with a bad
memory. :)

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