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Reported speech (I): Statement transformations
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- 1Famous Last WordsThese are quotations of famous last words. Try to relay to your partner what these people said before they died!
- 2Bob Marley: “Money can’t buy life”.Bob Marley said (that) money can’t buy life.
(Verb tense doesn't change because this can be considered a universal truth). - 3Frida Khalo: “I hope the exit is joyful and hope never to return”.Frida said (that) she hoped the exit was joyful and never to return.
- 4Leonard Nimoy: “A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory.”Leonard Nimoy said (that) life was like a garden. Perfect moments could be had, but not preserved, except in memory.
- 5Karl Marx: “Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough.”Karl Marx said (that) last words were for fools who hadn’t said enough.
- 6Mozart: “The taste of death is upon my lips. I feel something that is not of this earth."Mozart said (that) the taste of death was upon his lips and that he felt something that was not of that earth.
- 7Frank Sinatra: “I’m losing."Frank Sinatra said (that) he was losing.
- 8Virginia Woolf to her husband: “I don’t think two people could have been happier than we have been.”Virginia Woolf said to her husband that she didn't think two people could have been happier than they had been.
- 9Benjamin Franklin: “A dying man can do nothing easily.”Benjamin Franklin said (that) a dying man could not do anything easily.
- 10Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, to his wife: “You are wonderful.”Sir Arthur Conan Doyle said to his wife (that) she was wonderful.
- 11Anton Chekhov: “I haven’t had champagne for a long time.."Anton Chekhov said (that) he hadn't had champagne for a long time.
- 12George Orwell: "At fifty, everyone has the face he deserves.”George Orwell said (that) at fifty, everyone had the face they deserved.
- 13Nostradamus predicted: “Tomorrow, at sunrise, I shall no longer be here."Nostradamus predicted (said) that the next day at sunrise he would no longer be there.
- 14Groucho Marx: “This is no way to live!”Groucho Marx said that was no way to live.
- 15Emily Dickinson’s said: “I must go in, for the fog is rising.”Emily Dickinson said (that) she had to go in, for the fog was rising.
- 16James Brown: “I’m going away tonight.”James Brown predicted (said that) he was going away that night.
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- This is a set of 16 flashcards to practice the transformation of direct speech statements into reported speech. The front of the flashcards contains a quotation with the last words of some worldwide known celebrities. The back of the flashcards shows how that statement would be reported.
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