Period 3 Grammar

4.“Don’t wait for me,” he said to them. He told them not to wait for him. 5.“Stop wasting the time,” she said to him. She told him to stop wasting the time. 6.“Can you tell me a story?” the girl asked her father. The girl asked her father to tell her a story.
• 9. He said, “Where there is a will, the is a way.” • He said where there is a will, there is a way. • 10. “ How much do you think it will cost?” he said. • He asked me how much I thought it would cost.
ask(ed) sb. not to do sth.
Let’s do some exercises
Change the requests and the commands into Indirect Speeches
1.“Shut up,”she said to him. She told him to shut up. 2.“Speak louder, please,” he said to her. “Can you speak louder?” he asked her. He asked her to speak louder. 3.“Try the lift,” she said to her. She told her to try the lift.
3. A bear is about to approach a boy. What do you say to him to make sure that he won’t be hurt. 4. A boss wants the secretary to type a letter for him.What will he do? 5. Your father wants you to turn off the TV. What will he do?
told sb. not to do sth.
Change a request into an Indirect Speech. “Open the window, please,” the teacher said to the students. (requests)
The teacher asked the students to open the window.
Situation 2
A bear is about to approach a boy. What do you say to him to make sure that he won’t be hurt?
Example:
student A (as a mother): Clean the window. student B: What did your mother tell/ ask us? student C: She asked us to clean the window.
• 7. She says, “Liu Fang is good at English.” • She says Liu Fang is good at English. • 8. He said, “The plane takes off at 6:30 am.” • He said the plane takes off at 6:30 am.
• “Can you lend me five yuan?” he asked me. •He asked me to lend himfive yuan. •He asked me if I could lend him five yuan.
• The English teacher said to us, “Don’t speak Chinese, speak English.” The English teacher told us not to speak Chinese but to speak English.
Request and command
Open your books.
Please open your books. command
request (polite) Can you open your books please? request (polite) Could / would you please open you books? request (polite)
• 3. He asked, “Are you a teacher?” • He asked me if I was a teacher. • 4. “This is the craziest thing I have heard of so far,” she thought. • She thought that was the craziest thing she had heard of so far.
very polite
Discussion time
Just imagine if you were in the following situations, what would you do…
Situation 1
You need to ask someone to close the door but you cannot do it yourself. There are many people in the room but you cannot tell who are important and who are not. So how do you do it politely?
Change the commands into requests.
Close the door! Get me something to drink Take the dog for a walk! Speak louder! Clean your room. Watch out! Keep silent!
Test ourselves
Please change the direct speech into indirect speech
• 1. He said, “I’m going to Beijing tomorrow. • He said he was going to Beijing the next day. • 2. “What a lovely girl!” they said. • They said she was a lovely girl.
ask(ed) sb. to do sth.
Change a request into an Indirect Speech.
“Don’t open the window ,please,” the teacher said to the students. (requests)
The teacher asked the students not to open the window.
• 5. Mr Wang said, “I was born in China in September, 1972.” • Mr. Wang said he was born in China in September, 1972. • 6. She said, “They had left when I arrived there.” • She said they had left when she arrived there.
Give requests or commands according to the following situations. 1. You want to close the door, but you cannot do it by yourself. How do you do it politely? 2. You are standing in the middle of a train carriage and you need to leave. How do you do politely?
• “Follow his instructions,’ she said to me. She told me to follow his instructions. • “Please could you come to the reception desk?” she asked him. She asked him to go to the reception desk. She asked him if he could go to the reception desk. • He ordered/told the clerk to change his dirty uniform •“Change your dirty uniform!” he said to the clerk.
• She said to him, “ Don’t play a trick on me again.” • She told him not to play a trick on her again.
Homework 1.Oral work:Make a dialogue with your deskmate using requests and commands. 2.Finish off the extra Ex