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Task 1. Make general questions to the given sentences.                       (7 scores)

Model: My friend travels a lot.        Answer: Does my friend travel a lot?

1. Is the new park in the city center becoming very popular?
2. Have they just finished the restoration of the bridge?
3. Will he be back in half an hour?
4. Did Paul and I play tennis yesterday?
5. Is the situation really funny?
6. Has Tim not done his home-work today?
7. Does Mr. Smith like travelling?

Task 2. Make special questions to the sentences.                                 (7 scores)

Start the question with the given word.

Model: Peter and Camilla went to Africa.   Where …?   Answer: Where did they go?

1. They are going to stay there for a week. How long are they going to stay there?
2. Sarah is still at work. Why is Sarah still at work?
3. She paid $100 for her new dress. How much did she pay for her new dress?
4. Carol was at the party last night. Where was Carol last night?
5. Jim has started a new job recently. What did Jim start recently?
6. A woman is singing with a charming voice. What is a woman doing?
7. Diane told me her secret yesterday. When did Diane tell you her secret?

Task 3. Make negative questions to the given sentences.                      (7 scores)

Model: Our football team won the match.   Answer: Didn’t our football team win the match?

1. Didn’t he play the piano in his childhood?
2. Haven’t they just returned from the trip?
3. Won’t she visit her granny at the weekend?
4. Isn’t the day amazing?
5. Doesn’t your friend live in St. Petersburg?
6. Aren’t they swimming in the river?
7. Hasn’t he already come back?

Task 4. Make question tags to the given sentences.                              (7 scores)

Model: Mary won’t be late for classes.       Answer: will she?

1. You can speak 2 foreign languages, can’t you?
2. This garden is very nice, isn’t it?
3. Let’s go out, don’t we?
4. Michael plays the guitar, doesn’t he?
5. Don’t waste your time, do you?
6. They haven’t been to New York, have they?
7. The children are watching TV, aren’t they?

Task 5.  Put the words in          the correct word order. Make up questions.    (10 scores)

Model: when / was / this / built / house / ?              Answer: When was this house built?

1. Why didn’t the children go to the Zoo?
2. When was the telephone invented?
3. Can you speak  English  or French  ?
4. Where do your parents work ?
5. How often do you  usually  go  on holiday ?
6. Does it rain much  here  in summer  ?
7. Who does  this umbrella  belong to ?
8. Did you go out  last  night ?
9. What were you doing  this time  yesterday ?
10. What does Nick think about your  plan  ?

Task 6. Choose the correct word “tell / say / ask”.                    (10 scores)

Model: He often … things like that.                                     Answer: says.

1. She always tells me her troubles.
2. The children always ask me if they can go out to play.
3. They asked me to leave.
4. “Don’t do that!” she told to them.
5. “They have arrived”, she told to me.
6. “How are you both?” she says .
7. She told me she didn’t know what to do.
8. The nurse told him if he needed anything else.
9. Did she ask you where she had put my books?
10. He didn’t tell how long the job would take.

Task 7. Use reported speech.                                           (10 scores)

Model: Nellie: “I am reading now.”                                   

Answer: Nellie said she was reading at that moment.

1. Shop-assistant said the shoe department was downstairs.
2. Professor said he had made a great progress.
3. Paul said they would discuss that text the next day.
4. Mary asked what had happened to him.
5. Jenny asked Bill where he had you put his gloves. He told he couldn’t find them.
6. Jack said he was fond of Dickens. He said he had read 3 his novels.
7. Mother asked Bill if he had done hid home-work.
8. Tom asked mummy where his bag was.
9. Nick asked when he would buy him a new bicycle.
10. Son asked Daddy to help him with that problem.

Task 8. Write the dialogue in reported speech.                          (42 scores)

Jane asked if he could come in.

Kate asked Jane if it was she. She asked to come in.

Jane said that she had come before and sent her flowers. She asked if she had got the flowers.

Kate said that she had got them.  She said that id hat been so nice of her to send her flowers.

Jane asked how she was today.

Kate said she felt much better.

Jane asked what the doctor had said.

Kate said she would be allowed to go to school the next day.

Jane said that it was great. She asked if she had missed school.

Kate: Yes. But I am afraid I’ll be behind my classmates now.

Jane asked not to worry. She said that they would help her.

Kate thank her very much.

Jane said that it was not at all.