Extra grammar practice: reinforcement Unit 8

Reported speech – statements; 6 The art critic wanted to know

Reported speech – questions,  .
commands and suggestions his/of/in/kinds/materials/what/paintings/used/
the artist
1 Change these sentences into reported speech.
4 Report these commands and suggestions using
1 ‘I find Macbeth Shakespeare’s most fascinating play,’
ask, tell or suggest.
the director said.
1 ‘Buy the tickets online to avoid the queues,’ the tour
guide told the visitors.


2 ‘Tomorrow’s concert will be my last,’ the famous
conductor told the reporters.
2 ‘Don’t touch the sculptures!’ the museum staff told
the tourists.


3 ‘Her self-portraits are more interesting than her still
life paintings,’ the art critic said.
3 Why don’t you write a description of the painting?,’
the teacher suggested.


4 ‘I must learn all the lyrics by heart before next week’s
gig,’ Tom said.
4 ‘Play one more song,’ the audience asked the band.

5 ‘I can’t understand abstract art,’ my grandmother
once told me. 5 How about starting the scene again?,’ the director
suggested.


2 Circle the correct alternative.
5 Choose the best answers to complete the text.
1 Was it Oscar Wilde who said/told that all art was
quite useless? A few years ago a British artist made a shocking
2 Before the performance started, a voice off stage statement when he said that taking children to art
asked/asked to the audience to switch off galleries was a total waste of time. He (1) a national
their phones. newspaper that parents were arrogant if they (2) their
3 You’ve always told/said you didn’t like films with sad children (3) abstract painters like Picasso or Jackson
endings. Pollock. However, Picasso himself once said that it
4 The lead singer told/said the reporters that the band (4) him four years to paint like the great Italian
had decided to split. master Raphael but a lifetime to paint like a child. But
5 Our art teacher said/told us that people have often he insisted that showing children a Pollock painting
found Impressionism confusing. (5)  an insult to the artist. Many figures in the art
6 When the actors on stage asked/told to the world strongly disagreed with him and said that ‘art
audience to get up and dance, everybody stood up. (6) be understood, but felt.’ A national museum
director said that children can certainly appreciate a work
3 Put the words in order to make reporting
of art and they can all say (7) they like it or not, even if
sentences.
they probably don’t understand it, and he suggested
1 He asked  . (8) children to galleries as much as possible.
us/the/was/what/about/conference
2 Her fans wanted to know 1 A told B said C told to
 .
2 A think B had thought C thought
would/when/next/out/her/come/album
3 A couldn’t B could C will
3 She asked  . understand understand understand
science/books/librarian/the/were/fiction/where/the
4 A has taken B had taken C takes
4 They asked  .
5 A was B is C has been
artist/graffiti/how/wall/the/had/high/he/that/up/got
6 A mustn’t B hadn’t to C didn’t have to
5 She asked  .
the/had/again/drawing/do/to/she/her/if/teacher 7 A when B do C if
8 A to take B taking C will take

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