Warm Up Activity
Plot
Summary
A geeky
genius Maurice Moss, his lazy colleague Roy
Trenneman, and Jen Barber, work in IT department deep in the basement of London company Reynholm
Industries. Jen is the department head and relationship manager, but she knows
nothing about computers. When Jen is named Reynholm Industries' Employee of the
Month and Roy
and Moss are annoyed. They decide to play a trick on her when she has to give a
speech at the shareholders’ meeting.
1 Vocabulary focus. Study the words and word combinations, practise
their translation, spelling. Check your knowledge
in the test. Play vocabulary game and set your own vocabulary game record.
2 Watch the video
and put the
words into the gaps in the sentences.
1.
I offer a _____
of it so that you can use it in your ______.
2.
Jen: It _____
small.
3.
Moss: That’s
one of the _____ things about it.
4.
Jen: _____ on,
it doesn’t have _____ or anything.
5.
Moss: It’s _______.
Jen: Everything is _____ nowadays, _____ it?
6.
The Internet doesn’t _____ anything.
7.
______ is Jen doing with the Internet?
8.
Moss said I _____ use it for my speech.
9.
Are you ____? What if she ____ it?
10. It gets on top of
Big Ben. That’s where you get the best _____.
11. I won’t drop it,
I’ll ___ ____ it.
12. I _____, I won’t
let anything happen to it.
13. I spoke to the _____
of the Internet not one hour ago, I told them about Jen winning the _________________
and they were so ______ that they wanted to do whatever they could to help.
14. You’ve got to _____
me have it.
15. It’s just too _____.
16. Roy: Moss, has it been ______?
Moss: By Stephen
Hawking himself, who sends his ______ , by the ___.
17. Jen: _______ I have
it?
18. Roy: You _______.
3 Fill in the blanks in the sentences with
words and word combinations, each words and word combination can be used two
times.
insane, reception, loan, weigh
1.
I was halfway through Dan Brown’s “Digital Fortress”
when my e-book _____ (by way of eBookFling) reached the two-week mark. I’d
received e-mail, so I knew exactly when time was about to be up.
2.
The phone and tablet _____ 1.45 pounds, which is
lighter than the iPad.
3.
Apple has blamed _____ problems in its iPhone 4 on a
software error rather than a hardware fault - suggesting users haven't been
holding the device incorrectly, after all.
4.
The Dodocase mini may _____ a little more than your
traditional case, but the feel is perfect in your hand.
5.
The Internet is driving you ____ with all sorts of new
conditions now being recognized by the medical community.
6.
Thousands of libraries across the U.S. can now ____
e-books through Amazon.
7.
Mobility is expanding at an _____ pace, wireless is
hot and only getting hotter, and Ethernet is being marginalized in favor of the
power of portability demanded by a generation of cool new devices.
8.
One of the problems could be the design of the phone
that seems to affect its ______, and we noticed the signal strength drop 4
percent while holding the phone.
4 Answer the Questions.
1.
What did Moss give Jen? How could she use the object
at the shareholders’ meeting?
2.
What was Jen’s reaction? Did she understand the joke?
3.
What did Roy
do when he saw Moss and Jen getting ready for shareholders’ meeting?
4.
Why were the Elders mentioned? What did they do?
5.
Why was Stephen Hawking mentioned?
6.
Did Jen understand the IT guys’ joke?
5 Grammar. Look back at the sentences in Exercise 2. Can you find examples of reported (Indirect Speech)? Remember that we use reported speech when we want to tell somebody what another person said. Compare sentence 1 and sentence 8. How are verb forms changed in reported speech?
SEQUENCE OF TENSES
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Verb form
introducing direct speech
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Verb form in reported speech
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PRESENT
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Present Indefinite
Jane says: ”You dance well”.
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No changes
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Jane says that I dance well
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Present Continuous
Jane is crying: ”I felt so lonely”
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Jane is crying that she felt so lonely.
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Present Perfect
Jane’s said: “You dance well”
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Jane has said that I dance well.
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Future Indefinite
Jane’ll say: ”I felt so
lonely”
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Jane’ll say that she felt so lonely.
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Future Continuous
Jane’ll be saying: ”I felt so
lonely”
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Jane’ll be saying that she felt so lonely.
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Future Perfect
Jane’ll have said: ”I felt so
lonely”
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Jane’ll have said that she felt so lonely.
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PAST
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Past
Indefinite
Jane said: ”You dance
well”.
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Present Indefinite
Jane said:
”You dance well”.
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→
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Past Indefinite
Jane said that I danced
well
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Present Continuous
Jane said: “I’m waiting for Kate”.
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→
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Past Continuous
Jane said that she was waiting for Kate.
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Past
Continuous
Jane was crying: ”I felt so lonely”
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Present Perfect
Jane said: “ Kate has not phoned me”.
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→
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Past Perfect
Jane said that Kate had not phoned her.
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Present Perfect Continuous
Jane said: “I have been waiting for ages”.
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→
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Past Perfect Continuous
Jane said that she had been waiting for ages.
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Past Indefinite
Jane said:” I made it yesterday”.
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→
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Past Perfect
Jane said she had made it the day before.
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Past Indefinite in time clause
(f.ex.
When….)
Jane said: “When I got there the place was almost
empty”.
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→
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NO CHANGES
Jane said that when she got there, the place had been almost
empty.
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When there is a time clause the Past Simple
verb in main clause (f.ex. the place was
almost empty )
Jane said: “When I got there the place
was almost empty”.
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→
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Past Perfect
or NO CHANGES
Jane said that when she got there, the
place had been/ was almost empty.
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Past Indefinite
(we refer to a situation that still exists in
the present)
Jane said: “We didn’t stay in the hotel
because it was too expensive”.
(and we think that the hotel is still
expensive now)
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→
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NO CHANGES
Jane said that they hadn’t stayed in the
hotel because it was too
expensive.
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Past Continuous
Jane said: “ I was writing”.
“When they arrived, I was still cooking the dinner”, - he said.
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→
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Past Perfect Continuous or NO CHANGES (in conversation)
Jane said that she had been writing. or Jane said that she was writing.
He
said that when they arrived, he was
still cooking the dinner.
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BUT
Activity (verb in Past Continuous) was
completed before an event in the Past Simple or Present Perfect
“We were planning to go out but then Joe
started feeling sick”, - she said.
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→
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Past Perfect Continuous
She said that they had been planning to go out but then Joe started (had started)
feeling sick.
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Past Perfect
Jane said: “I had written my report”.
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→
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NO CHANGES
Jane said that she had written her report.
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Past
Perfect
Jane’d said: “You dance well”.
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Past Perfect Continuous
Jane said: “ I had been writing my report”.
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→
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NO CHANGES
Jane said that she had been writing her report.
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Future Indefinite
Jane said: “I’ll do it”.
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→
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Future – Indefinite - in - the- Past
Jane said that she would do it.
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Future Continuous
Jane said:” I’ll be writing my
report”.
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→
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Future – Continuous - in - the- Past
Jane said that she would be writing her report.
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Future Perfect
Jane said: “I’ll have written my report”.
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→
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Future – Perfect - in - the- Past
Jane said that she would have written her report.
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REPORTING QUESTIONS, REQUESTS, ADVICE, ORDERS
Type of sentence in direct speech
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+
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Reported speech
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General question (+ alternative question (Is it a pen or a pencil?))
Jane asked:
”Have I seen you before? ”
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Verbs that introduce reported
speech
ASK, WONDER, WANT TO
KNOW |
if
whether
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+
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Direct word order
Subject + Predicate
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Jane asked
me if she had seen me before.
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Special
question
Jane asked:
“Why didn’t you tell me the truth?”
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Question word
(who, when)
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+
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Direct
word order
Subject + Predicate
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Jane asked
me why I hadn’t told her the truth.
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Question (general or special) with the verb shall/should
Jane asked:
“What should I buy for Peter?”
Jane asked:
“Should I tell Jill what happened?”
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Question word (special question) (who, where)
if
/ whether (general question)
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+
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to
+ Infinitive
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Jane asked
me what to buy for Peter.
Jane asked
me whether to tell Jill what had
happened. (mind sequence of tenses)
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REQUESTS, ADVICE, ORDERS Imperative
sentences))
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To + Infinitive
Not + to + Infinitive
Jane asked
me to help her write her speech.
Jane told
me to go at once.
Jane told
me not to stay out too late.
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Jane asked:
“Can you help me write my speech?”
(request)
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Jane told
me: “Go at once”.
Jane told
me: “Don’t stay out too
late”.
(order, request)
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6 Write the sentences from Exercise 2 in reported speech.
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