1) Change the following direct commands into indirect commands.
1. “Do whatever you like,” she said to us.
2. “Don’t miss your train,” she warned them.
3. “Shut the door, Tom,” she said.
4. “Lend me your pen for a moment,” I said to Mary.
5. “Please fill up this form,”the secretary said.
6. “Don’t hurry,” I said.
7. “Cook it in butter,” I advised her.
8. “Don’t touch the gates, madam,” said the lift operator.
9. “Don’t argue with me,” the teacher said to the boy.
10. “Don’t touch that switch, Mary,” I said.
2) Put the following into indirect speech.
1. “Take me up to the 33rd floor,” he said to the liftman.
2. “Don’t argue with your father,” I said.
3. “Wait for me at the bridge,” said the young man.
4. “Don’t eat too much starch,” I advised her, “and avoid fried food.”
5. “Climb in through the window,” he ordered.
6. “Please pay at the desk,” said the assistant.
7. “Open your bag, please,” said the store detective.
8. “Follow that car,” the detective said to the taxi-driver.
9. “Don’t forget to feed the goldfish,” Mary said to her brother.
10. “Cross the line by the footbridge,” said the porter.
3) Put the following into indirect speech using ask, advise, invite, offer, remind, tell, warn.
1. “You'd better apologize for being late,” said my mother.
2. “I wish you'd sit still!” said the artist.
3. “Would you like a cigarette?” said one of the guests.
4. “Would you mind not smoking between courses?” said their hostess.
5. “You must see this exhibition!” said all my friends.
6. “I should plant daffodils, if I were you,” I said to them.
7. “If you'd just sign the back of the cheque,” said the bank clerk.
8. “Take these letters to the post, will you? And shut the door as you go out,” said the boss.
9. “Will you help me, please?” she said. “I can’t reach the top shelf.”
10. “This is a horrible room. Why don’t you ask for something better?” he said.
4) Read and translate the article. Then retell the main idea of it starting with “The article said that …”.
In the early 1900s, the most popular doping agent was a cocktail of alcohol and strychnine.
The use of strychnine was superseded by amphetamine, following its development in the 1930s.
In 1960, the Danish cyclist, Kurt Jensen, died after overdosing on amphetamine in an attempt to seek
competitive advantage and the search for control measures began. Methods of anti-doping control
were first pioneered in the 1960s, by Arnold Beckett, an academic pharmacist with a specialist interest
in sports pharmacy, based at Kings College London (formerly Chelsea College). It was however the
televised death of the British cyclist Tommy Simpson, while under the influence of amphetamine during
the 1967 Tour de France, that proved the catalystfor implementation of official anti-doping control
systems and the banning of amphetamine in international sport. Cycling has long since been a harbinger
for systematic doping and as one top cyclist explained "it is impossible to finish in the top five of a Tour
de France without doping". In 1968, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) published the first banned
list of drugs and implemented the first formal drug testing programme at the Montreal Olympics.
In the last three decades a number of names have joined the cheaters' hall of fame including Ben Johnson
(stanozolol), Dan Mitchell (testosterone), Lindford Christie (nandrolone), Olga Yegorova (erythropoetin)
and Andrea Raducan (pseudoephedrine), to name a few. Johnson was abusing stanazolol and other
agents for years with the help of fringe practitioners, before testing positive at the Seoul Olympics
in 1988. In the UK, many were shocked by the Lindford Christie saga, however he first tested positive
in 1988, at the start of his career, for the banned stimulant pseudoephedrine; not surprisingly he
has now lost the contract for whiter than white whites. It was the Irish swimmer Michelle Smith de Bruin
who brought the reality of doping home to our own doorstep; while the country was divided in 1998
as to whether she was a sporting Jenny or a bold deceiver, the IOC confirmed that there was "Whiskey
in the Jar" and the amount therein defied all possible human consumption. The doping scourge has
continued into the new millennium. Alain Baxter came from 63rd in the world to attain a bronze medal
in this year's Winter Olympics at Salt Lake City, only to be stripped of his medal after a positive test that
could only have been attained had the nasal spray implicated been swallowed whole. Only recently, another
scandal hit the headlines adding to the disrepute of cycling when Stefano Garzelli tested positive for
probenecid; five of his team were either arrested, indicted or "disappeared" during police investigations.