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Reported Speech Exercises and Practice

This document contains exercises on reporting speech in Vietnamese. It includes turning direct speech into indirect speech, mixing positive and negative sentences, and changing indirect speech back to direct speech. Some of the exercises provide sentences and ask the student to rewrite them in reported/indirect speech, while others give reported speech and ask the student to change it back to direct speech. There are over 100 sentences across 3 sections/exercises focusing on different aspects of reported speech.

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Reported Speech Exercises and Practice

This document contains exercises on reporting speech in Vietnamese. It includes turning direct speech into indirect speech, mixing positive and negative sentences, and changing indirect speech back to direct speech. Some of the exercises provide sentences and ask the student to rewrite them in reported/indirect speech, while others give reported speech and ask the student to change it back to direct speech. There are over 100 sentences across 3 sections/exercises focusing on different aspects of reported speech.

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Bài 1: Hoàn thành các câu sau

1. “Where is my umbrella?” she asked.


She asked ……………………………………… ………………….

2. “How are you?” Martin asked us.


Martin asked us………………………………………… ……………….

3. He asked, “Do I have to do it?”


He asked……………………………………… ………………….

4. “Where have you been?” the mother asked her daughter.


The mother asked her daughter……………………………………
…………………….

5. “Which dress do you like best?” she asked her boyfriend.


She asked her boyfriend…………………………………..
……………………..

6. “What are they doing?” she asked.


She wanted to know……………………………………….
…………………

7. “Are you going to the cinema?” he asked me.


He wanted to know………………………………………. …………………

8. The teacher asked, “Who speaks English?”


The teacher wanted to know……………………………………….
…………………

9. “How do you know that?” she asked me.


She asked me………………………………………… ……………….

10. “Has Caron talked to Kevin?” my friend asked me.


My friend asked me………………………………………… ……………….

11. “What’s the time?” he asked.


→ He wanted to know ……………………………………………
12. “When will we meet again?” she asked me.
→ She asked me ……………………………………………

13. “Are you crazy?” she asked him.


→ She asked him ……………………………………………

14. “Where did they live?” he asked.


→ He wanted to know ……………………………………………

15. “Will you be at the party?” he asked her.


→ He asked her ……………………………………………

16. “Can you meet me at the station?” she asked me.


→ She asked me ……………………………………………

17. “Who knows the answer?” the teacher asked.


→ The teacher wanted to know ……………………………………………

18. “Why don’t you help me?” she asked him.


→ She wanted to know ……………………………………………

19. “Did you see that car?” he asked me.


→ He asked me ……………………………………………

20. “Have you tidied up your room?” the mother asked the twins.
→ The mother asked the twins ………………………………………….. 

Bài 2: Bài tập câu tường thuật pha trộn negative


và positive
1. She said, “Go upstairs.”
→ She told me ……………………………………………

2. “Close the door behind you,” he told me.


→ He told me ……………………………………………

3. “Don’t be late,” he advised us.


→ He advised us ……………………………………………
4. “Stop staring at me,” she said.
→ She told him ……………………………………………

5. “Don’t be angry with me,” he said.


→ He asked her ……………………………………………

6. “Leave me alone,” she said.


→ She told me ……………………………………………

7. “Don’t drink and drive,” she warned us.


→ She warned us ……………………………………………

8. “John, stop smoking,” she said.


→ She told John ……………………………………………

9. “Don’t worry about us,” they said.


→ They told her ……………………………………………

10. “Meet me at the cinema.” he said.


→ He asked me ……………………………………………

11. He said, “I like this song.”


→ He said ……………………………………………

12. “Where is your sister?” she asked me.


→ She asked me ……………………………………………

13. “I don’t speak Italian,” she said.


→ She said ……………………………………………

14. “Say hello to Jim,” they said.


→ They asked me ……………………………………………

15. “The film began at seven o’clock,” he said.


→ He said that ……………………………………………

16. “Don’t play on the grass, boys,” she said.


→ She told ……………………………………………
17. “Where have you spent your money?” she asked him.
→ She asked him ……………………………………………

18. “I never make mistakes,” he said.


→ He said ……………………………………………

19. “Does she know Robert?” he wanted to know.


→ He wanted ……………………………………………

20. “Don’t try this at home,” the stuntman told the audience.
→ The stuntman advised ……………………………………………

I. Turn these sentences into Reported speech.


1. She said,” I can’t find my umbrella”
___________________________________________________________
2. They said, “We are learning English now”
___________________________________________________________
3. “ My friend is coming next week”, Tom said.
___________________________________________________________
4. “ I’ll help my mum with housework this weekend”, she said
___________________________________________________________
5. “We shall overcome this difficulty”, they said
___________________________________________________________
6. “ My father is a doctor here”, my friend said
___________________________________________________________
7. “I am going on holiday tomorrow”, the boy said to his neighbor.
___________________________________________________________
8. “ You will have to finish all these exercises before next week”, the teacher said to
his students
___________________________________________________________
9. “ I came back here early yesterday,” she said.
___________________________________________________________
10. “ I’ve broken the vase,” she said
___________________________________________________________
11. “ I will never see you again,” the boy said to the girl.
___________________________________________________________
12. He said to her, “You are my friend.”
___________________________________________________________
13. Johnny said to his mother, “I don’t know how to do this exercise.”
___________________________________________________________
14. “We are waiting for the school bus”, said the chidren.
___________________________________________________________
15. Marry said, “My father died a year ago”.
___________________________________________________________
16. John said, “I have finished studying my lesson”.
___________________________________________________________
17. Mary said, “I can not go to the movies with you, John”.
___________________________________________________________
18. “I shall expect to see you next Wednesday.” Mary said to her friend.
___________________________________________________________
19. He said, “I don’t know what happened.”
________________________________________________
20. She said, “I went to the doctor yesterday.”
________________________________________________
21. He said, “I have a toothache.”
________________________________________________
22. She said, “I’ll write him a prescription.”
________________________________________________
23. They said, “We’re going to the drugstore.”
________________________________________________
24. He said, “The doctor gave me some pills.”
________________________________________________
25. She said, “I go to the supermarket every day.”
________________________________________________
26. He said, “I have received the envelope.”
________________________________________________
27. They said, “We visited Cannery Row.”
________________________________________________
28. She said, “I feel very sick.”
________________________________________________
29. He said, “I bought some popcorn.”
________________________________________________
30. They said, “We’re flying to California.”
________________________________________________
31. He said, “I’m cutting off the main valve.”
________________________________________________
32. Nam said, “my uncle often plants the vegetables in the afternoon.”
________________________________________________
33. “My uncle will not plant the vegetables tomorrow afternoon”, she said.
________________________________________________
34. “Mr and Mrs Pike have just read these newspapers”, Nga said.
________________________________________________
35. She said, “I often listen to music at night.”
________________________________________________
36. Lan’s mother said, “My daughter usually brushes her teeth before meals.”
________________________________________________
37. They said, “We have to do the assignments now.”
________________________________________________
38. Lan says, “My sister seldom rides a bike to school.”
________________________________________________
39. They said, “Our teacher sometimes explains the difficult lesson.”
________________________________________________
40. Nam said, “I am doing my homework now.”
________________________________________________
II. Change the sentences below into direct speech.
1. My mother told me that she was sad then.
___________________________________________________________
2. One of my friends said that she liked learning English with her teacher.
___________________________________________________________
3. The doctor told me that I could leave the hospital that day.
___________________________________________________________
4. The film director said that she was willing to work then.
___________________________________________________________
5. The teacher told his students that he would be busy the following month.
___________________________________________________________
6. Tom invited me to his birthday party.
______________________________________________
7. She said the doctor had written her a prescription.
________________________________________________
8. He said that he had a toothache.
________________________________________________
9. She said she went to the museum every day.
________________________________________________
10. They said they were going to the supermarket.
________________________________________________
11. She said that the doctor had given her some pills.
________________________________________________.
III Change the following sentences into reported speech:
1. She said to him: “give me another glass of wine”.
________________________________________________
2. She said to me: “bring me a book”.
________________________________________________
3. Mother said to him: “open the window please!”.
________________________________________________
4. He said to me: “shut the door after you”.
________________________________________________
5. The captain said to them: “wait here still I come back”.
________________________________________________
6. She told her: “take it and come with me”.
________________________________________________
7. He said to me: “don’t come back before one o’clock”.
________________________________________________
8. My mother told me: “don’t forget to look at the door”.
________________________________________________
9. He said to his brother: “don’t open the window, open the door”.
________________________________________________
10. He said to the girl: “don’t sit on my bed, sit on this chair please!”.
________________________________________________
11. The teacher said: “I am a teacher”.
________________________________________________
12. She said to me “I have a big house”
________________________________________________
13. She said to me : “I am going to the party”.
________________________________________________
14. She said to me: “I gave him your letter.”
________________________________________________
15. She said: “I have finished my work.”
________________________________________________
16. Nam said: “I am not a pupil.”
________________________________________________
17. Nam said: “I am going to Ho Chi Minh city.”
________________________________________________
18. He said to me: “I have gone to your house.”
________________________________________________
19. She says: “I knew your difficulties.”
________________________________________________
20. He said to me: “I gave him your present.”
________________________________________________
21. He asked me: “Who is Oliver Twist?”
________________________________________________
22. My mother asked me: “What‘s the matter with you?”
________________________________________________
23. I asked him: “Which book do you find?”
________________________________________________
24. He asked me: “When do you finish your work?”
________________________________________________
25. Mai asked me: “Why didn’t you come?”
________________________________________________
26. She says: “She had a wonderful evening.”
________________________________________________
27. The teacher tells us: “You should learn harder and harder.”
________________________________________________
28. My mother says that: “We are having a party tomorrow.”
________________________________________________
29. I say to him: “Our teacher will come on time.”
________________________________________________
30. Mai‘s parents say that: “We are going to invite twenty guests to the party.
________________________________________________
IV. Change the following sentences into reported speech:
1. “Open the door,” he said to them.
-He told them________________________________________________
2. “Where are you going?” he asked her.
-He asked her where________________________________________________
3. “Which way did they go?” he asked.
-He asked________________________________________________
4. “Bring it back if it doesn’t fit”, I said to her.
-I told________________________________________________
5. “Don’t try to open it now,” she said to us.
-She told________________________________________________
6. “Is it going to be a fine day today?” I asked her.
-I asked her________________________________________________
7. “He’s not at home”, she said.
-She said that________________________________________________
8. “Is the bus station far away?” the girl asked.
-The girl wanted to know________________________________________________
9. “Don’t stay out late, Ann” Tom said.
-Tom told Ann________________________________________________
10. “Please let me borrow your car,” he said to her.
-He asked________________________________________________
11. “Jean, have you seen my gloves?” Thomas asked.
-Thomas asked Jean________________________________________________
12. Don’t leave the window open, Mary”, I said.
-I told Mary________________________________________________
13. “I’ll have a cup of tea with you,” she said.
She said that________________________________________________
14. “I’ll pay him if I can” she said.
-She said that________________________________________________
15. “What are you going to do next summer?” she asked.
- She asked us________________________________________________
16. “I’ll phone you tomorrow,” he told Jack.
-He told Jack that________________________________________________
17. “Can I sit beside you, Jean?” Tom asked.
-Tom asked Jean________________________________________________
18. “I want a camera for my birthday,” he said.
-He said that________________________________________________
19. “Don’t keep the door locked,” he said to us.
-He told us________________________________________________
20. “How long are you going to stay?” I asked him.
-I asked him how long________________________________________________
21. “Are you going by train?” she asked me.
-She wanted to know________________________________________________
22. “Don’t use too much hot water,” she said to us.
-She asked us________________________________________________
23. “Will you come to my party?” she said to me.
-She invited me________________________________________________
24. “Don’t do it again,” she said to them.
She told them________________________________________________
25. “ Did Mr Brown send the potatoes to you?” she asked.
-She asked________________________________________________
26. “Don’t get your shoes dirty, boys,” she said.
-She told.________________________________________________
27. “What do you want for lunch today, Peter?” Mary asked.
-Mary asked________________________________________________
28. “Can I borrow your typewriter, Janet?” asked Peter.
- Peter asked if ________________________________________________
29. “Why didn’t I get a computer before?” thought the office manager.
-The office manager
wondered________________________________________________
30. “You had better not lend him any more money, Elizabeth,’’ said John.
-John advised Elizabeth________________________________________________
31. “You stole my best cassette, Amanda!” said John.
-John accused________________________________________________
32. “ You damaged my bicycle, John!” said Mary.
-Mary accused________________________________________________
33. “When was your little boy born?” said the nurse to Mrs. Bingley.
-The nurse asked Mrs.
Bingley________________________________________________
34. “You should take more exercise, Mr. Robert,” the doctor said.
-The doctor advised________________________________________________
35. “Will I find a job?”, Tim said to himself.
-Tim wondered________________________________________________
36. “I’m sorry I gave you the wrong number,” said Paul to Susan.
-Paul apologized________________________________________________
37. “When is the first day of your holiday, Peter?” Martha asked.
- Martha asked Peter
when________________________________________________
38. “Can I have a new bicycle?” said Anna to her mother.
-Anna asked________________________________________________
39. “Don’t leave the house until I get back, William”, his mother said.
- William’s mother told________________________________________________
40. “Don’t bite your nails,” said Mrs. Rogers to her son.
-Mrs. Rogers told________________________________________________
41. “I’ve seen the film three times, Mary” said George.
-George said________________________________________________
42. “I’m sorry, Angela,” said Martin, “I’m afraid I’ve damaged your car.
-Martin apologized________________________________________________
43. “Have you had enough for lunch?” the landlady asked us.
-The landlady asked________________________________________________
44. “John, please don’t tell anyone my new address,” said Mary.
-Mary asked________________________________________________
45. “Breakfast will not be served after 9. 30” said the notice.
-The notice said that________________________________________________
46. “Where is the best place to buy souvenirs?”
-I asked________________________________________________
47. “Don’t forget to bring your passport with you tomorrow”
- She reminded me ________________________________________________
48. “Do not write on the wall,” said the teacher to the boys.
-The teacher told the
boys________________________________________________
49. “How many jobs have you had since 2000?” the interviewer asked Mr. Simpson.
- The interviewer asked________________________________________________
50. “Why didn’t you report the incident to the police?” the officer asked the frightened
witness.
- The officer wanted to
know________________________________________________

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