Unit 06 competitions language focus 2

→ The teacher accused him of not paying attention to what she had said... “I’m sorry I didn’t phone you earlier.” Marry said... “You don’t pay attention to the lesson to what I said,”

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Period 32 : LANGUAGE FOCUS

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

traveling troubling driving

twinkle twice

train

I Pronunciation : / tr / ; / dr / ; / tw/

2 Practise reading aloud these sentences :

It’s so hot, today

Let’s go to the

beach.

 He suggested going to the beach

What did the little boy suggest ?

Sorry, I’m late

Thank you for helping me build this snowman.

 She thanked him for helping her build that snowman

Reported Speech with

Gerund

 He suggested going to the beach

She thanked him for helping her build that snowman

 She apologised for being late

S + V +prep+V-ing…

S + V + V-ing…

S + V + O+prep+V-ing….

Unit 6 COMPETITIONS –Period 33 LANGUAGE FOCUS

II Grammar : Reported speech with gerund

* Structures

1 S + V +V- ing…

admit, deny, suggest, regret…

2 S + V + Preposition (Prep) + V – ing…

apologize for, complaint about, insist on, object to, dream of, insist on, think of …

3 S + V + O + Preposition (Prep) + V – ing…

accuse sb of; blame sb for; congratulate sb on; warn sb against;

thank sb for; criticize sb for; praise sb for; prevent sb from; to

suspect sb of….

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,)

 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.

→ The teacher accused him of not paying attention to what she

had said.

III EXERCISES :

Exercise 1 : Change direct speech into reported speech Begin each

of the sentences in the way shown.

1

4

2 3

Lucky number

“I’m sorry I didn’t

phone you earlier.”

Marry said.

Mary apologized for not phoning him earlier.

“I’ll drive you to the

station I insist.” Peter

said to Linda.

Peter insisted on driving Linda to the station

Congratulation

“You don’t pay attention to the lesson to

what I said,” the teacher said to the boy.

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

Exercise 1

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.

The teacher accused …… of ………

us passing our exams

not phoning me earlier

driving Linda to station

Exercise 2: Rewrite the dialogue in reported speech, using gerund.

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 _

paying for the meal.

meeting their children soon

leaving the shop being late

having broken the window of her house

Unit 6 COMPETITIONS –Period 32: LANGUAGE FOCUS

Homework : I Rewrite the sentences, beginning as the shown.

1.“ I must have made a mistake in the calculations.” Mr Forest said.

->Mr Forest admitted 2.“ I can’t let you use the mobile phone.” Her mother said.

-> Her mother prevented 3.“ I didn’t steal the car”, the boy said “ I just borrowed it.”

-> The boy denied 4.Peter said, “ I wish I hadn’t lent him some money.”

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