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Language focusReported speech with Gerund Use: We use reported speech with Gerund in order to report feelings or suggestions... drinking 3.“Don’t cut flowers in the park!”, the old lad

Arrange these words according to their pronunciation

dress; traffic; twinkle; drive; twelve; twenty; troops

trousers; dreadful; drink; twin; tropical

twelve twenty twin twinkle

1 John always enjoys traveling by

train.

2 Jane’s teeth are troubling her.

3 George 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.

The little boy suggested _going to the beach the next day.

“It’s so hot today ”

“ Let’s go to the beach

tomorrow ”

The teacher accused _of _ Nam not paying attention to the lesson _

“You don’t pay attention

to the lesson, Nam”.

“Don’t eat so much

nutritious food.”

The doctor warned against _ him eating so much nutritious food.

Unit 6 Language focusReported speech with Gerund

 Use: We use reported speech with Gerund in order to

report feelings or suggestions (để tường thuật cảm xúc hoặc lời

đề nghị của ai đó,)

S + V + (not) Gerund phrase

S + V + (O) + prep + (not) Gerund phrase

accuse sb of thank sb for

congratulate sb on

prevent sb from warn sb against…

Verbs:

 Note: Change Subject Pronouns, Object pronouns, Possessive adjectives, in reported speech

- First person (I , We) → S

- Second person (You) → O

- Third person (He, she, it, they) → unchanged

 Change the verb tense if the introducing verb is in past tense.

“ You didn’t pay attention to what I said ,” the teacher said to him

→ The teacher accused him of not paying attention to what

she had said

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“I’m sorry I didn’t

phone you earlier.”

Mary apologized for not phoning him earlier.

Mary congratulated on _ them passing their exams

“I hear you passed your exams Congratulations!”

She has always dreamed of being rich

“I’ve always wanted

to be rich.”

I warned against _ him staying at the hotel near the airport.

“Don’t stay at the hotel near

the airport.”

Congratulation

Congratulation

“Stay here! I can’t let you go out tonight.”

His mother prevented _ from him going out that night.

Exercise 2: Rewrite the dialogue in reported speech, using gerund (p.75)

Ex: Teacher: Come in, Peter!

Peter : I’m sorry I’m late.

Peter apologized for _

1 Linda: Let me pay for the meal.

Tom : Certainly not! I’ll pay.

Tom insisted on _

2 Mr Smith : I feel like meeting our children soon.

Mrs Smith: I think so.

Mr and Mrs Smith looked forward to

3 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 _

4 Policeman: You mustn’t leave the shop!

Customer : What’s that?

Policeman: Stay here! You mustn’t leave the shop!

Policeman stopped the customer from _.

5 Mary: What shall we do on Saturday?

Ann :What about having a party?

Ann suggested _

paying for the meal.

leaving the shop

being late

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

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