Convert into Reported Speech. 1) The general said: “I want to consult you, Lionel

1) The general said: “I want to consult you, Lionel. It’s about my boy, Hubert.”

2) The old man said, “I had to go in the cave, son.”

3) “My father is a preacher,” Isaak said, “so I have read my Bible.”

4) “Hans,” said Miller, “I will give you my wheel-barrow.”

5) “Well,” cried Pinch, “you are the strangest young man, Martin, I ever knew in my life.”

6) “Very well, then,” said my friend’s wife, rising, “all I have to say is, that I shall take the children and go to a hotel, until these cheeses are eaten. I decline to live any longer in the same house with them.”

7) “Maurice,” she said, “I’ve just telephoned to the doctor.”

8) “I will ring when I need you,” she said to the maid.

9) “Boy,” the lieutenant said, “if you aren’t careful you’ll be ordered off this mountain.”

10) “A clever accountant like me, and a man who is honest and industrious, can always get work,” Jean said.

Look at the extract from the interview 1 and the following report of it. Then write your own report of the next interviews.

Interview 1

“…It’s not what people think it is. I mean, you would, all you do is, you do all the dirty jobs, you have to clean people’s boots, you have to pick up their kit, wash out the bathrooms, scrub the floors, it’s – things like that. Paint walls. We were doing that sort of thing…”

Report

He said that life for a young professional football player wasn’t what people thought it was. All they did was the dirty jobs: they had to clean people’s boots, pick up their kit, wash out the bathrooms, scrub the floors, paint walls and things like that…