Unit 6. Competitions

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UNIT 6: COMPETITIONS

Thursday, November 2nd, 2017

LANGUAGE FOCUS

traffic drive twelve troops dreadful twenty

tropical dress twinkle

1 John always enjoys travelling by train.

2 Jane’s teeth are troubling her.

3 Geoge is driving dangerously.

4 Her new dress is an absolute dream.

5 She has an amused twinkle in her eyes.

6 Think twice before doing something.

Practice reading aloud these sentences

REPORTED

SPEECH WITH GERUND

• Example 1

• “It was nice of you to help me Thank you

very much,” Tom said to you.

•  Tom thanked me for helping him.

S + V + O + PREPOSITION + V-ing

1 accuse SB of doing Sth:

2 blame SB for doing Sth:

• Example 2

• Teacher: Come in, Peter!

• Peter: I’m sorry I’m late

• Peter apologised for being late.

S + V + preposition+ V-ing

1.Apologise for doing st

2.Insist on doing st :

3.Dream of doing sth

4.Think of doing sth

S + V + V-ing

Ex1 change direct speech in to reported speech.

1. “I hear you passed your exams Congratulations!”

John said to us.

John congratulated …… on………

2. “I’m sorry I didn’t phone you earlier,” Mary said.

Mary apologised for ………

3. “I’ll drive you to station I insist,” Peter said to

Linda

Peter insisted on ………

4. “You didn’t pay attention to what I said,” the

teacher said to the boy.

5. “I’ve always wanted to be rich,” Bob said

Bob has always dreamed of ………

6. “Don’t stay at the hotel near the airport,” I said to

Ann

I warned …… against ………

not phoning me earlier driving Linda to station

The teacher accused the boy of not paying attention to what he had said

being rich Ann staying at the hotel near the airport

Tom insis ted on

r the meal.

ll pay.

Linda: Let me pay fo

r the meal.

Tom: Certa inly not I’

ll pay.

Tom insis ted on paying fo

r the mea l.

Woman: Hey! You’ve broken the

window of my house.

Boy: Oh No, I’ve just arrived here

I don’t know anything about it.

The boy denied

The boy denied breaking the window

of her house.

Detective : You have stolen Mrs Brown’s car

The thief: yes ! But

The thief admitted

The thief admitted stealing Mrs Brown’s car

Mary: W hat shal

Exercise 3: Choose A, B, C, or D that best completes the sentence or has the closest meaning to the original one.

1.The police prevented us _getting into the park

A from B off C on D out of

2.Tommy admitted _all the wine in the bottle

A for drinking B to drinking C of drinking D drinking

3.“Don’t cut flowers in the park!”, the old lady said to us.

A The old lady wanted us to cut flowers in the park

B The old lady insisted us on cutting flowers in the park

C The old lady warned us against cutting flowers in the park

D The old lady congratulated us on cutting flowers in the park

4 Cathy said, “Let’s go to the cinema.”

A Cathy thanked for going to the cinema

B Cathy suggested going to the cinema

C Cathy denied going to the cinema

D Cathy apologized for going to the cinema

C

B

A

D