Example:
• Open the door.
• Please help me.
• Obey your parents.
To change such sentences into indirect speech, the word “ordered”, “requested”, “advised”, “suggested”, “forbade”, “not to do” is added to reporting verb depending upon nature of imperative sentence in reported speech.
Meals
There are four meals a day in an English home: breakfast, lunch, tea, and dinner.
Breakfast is the first meal of the day. It is at about 8 o'clock in the morning, and consists of porridge with milk and salt or sugar, eggs – boiled or fried, bread and butter with marmalade or jam. Some people like to drink tea, but others prefer coffee
The usual time for lunch is 1 o'clock. This meal starts with soup or fruit juice. Then follows some meat or poultry with potatoes – boiled or fried, carrots and beans. Last of all coffee – black or white. Englishmen often drink something at lunch. Water is usually on the table. Some prefer juice or lemonade.
Tea is the third meal of the day. It is between 4 or 5 o'clock, the so-called 5 o'clock tea. On the table there is tea, milk or cream, sugar, bread and butter, cakes and jam. Friends and visitors are often present at tea.
Dinner is the fourth meal of the day. The usual time is about 7 o'clock, and all the members of the family sit down together. Dinner usually consists of soup, fish or meat with vegetables – potatoes, green beans, carrot and cabbage, sweet pudding, fruit salad, ice-cream or cheese and biscuits. Then after a talk they have black or white coffee.
This is the order of meals among English families. But the greater part of the people in the towns, and nearly all country-people, have dinner in the middle of the day instead of lunch. They have tea a little later – between 5 and 6 o'clock, and then in the evening, before going to bed, they have supper.
So the four meals of the day are either breakfast, dinner, tea, supper; or breakfast, lunch, tea, dinner.
Our English lesson
T e a c h e r : Good morning, all! Sit down, please! I expect no one is away?
M o n i t o r : Nobody is. All are present. Oh, sorry, Ann is not here.
T e a c h e r : What's up? Is she ill?
M o n i t o r : It's flu with a high temperature.
T e a c h e r : That's too bad. Well now. Let's begin. We'll check our homework. Mike, will you take your
exercise-book and come to the board?
M i k e : Shall I write the words in transcription?
T e a c h e r : Do. And you, Helen, read Text 7, will you? The others should write down the mistakes if she
has any. Do you follow me? Will you read a little louder, please. That'll do. Any mistakes noticed?
J u l i a : I believe there's some palatalization in the nouns "family" and "Benny".
T e a c h e r : That's it. Please, Helen, pronounce the words. Now it's correct. You must work more.
Pronunciation is your weak point, I'm afraid.
H e l e n : Shall I read the text again for the next time?
T e a c h e r : Yes. Have another try and make your reading more distinct. Now everybody look at the
board!
M i k e : Shall I read the exercise?
T e a c h e r : Of course. (Mike reads). Is everything correct, Pete?
P e t e : I think it is.
T e a c h e r : Thank you, Mike. Clean the board, please, and go to your seat. (To the monitor). Have we got
the headphones ?
Mo n i t o r : Here they are.
T e a c h e r : Fine. Let's listen to the new text. Open your books at page 81. Will you please switch on the
cassette-recorder? Thank you.
This text is about two guys who want a John Marshall scholarship. On the morning of the first day of vacation they met and walked together. Before sunset, they sat on an inverted boat and spoke little. He was surprised when he found out that Gavin was also going to pass the scholarship exam, because he needed money because of his father’s business. Both understood that one of them would not receive a scholarship and were upset
Бұл мәтін Джон Маршалл стипендиясын алғысы келетін екі жігіт туралы. Демалыстың бірінші күні таңертең олар кездесіп, бірге жүрді. Күн батқанға дейін олар кері қайыққа отырды және аз сөйледі. Ол Гэвиннің стипендияға емтихан тапсыратындығын білгенде, ол таң қалды, өйткені әкесінің бизнесі арқасында оған ақша керек болды. Екеуі біреуінің стипендия алмайтынын түсінді және ренжіді
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