Gateway b1 unit 9

Rewrite the questions using reported speech.

1 ‘Where do you live?’

She asked me ……………………………

2 ‘Have you seen Emma this morning?’

He asked me ………………………………

3 ‘Where can I buy a newspaper?’

He asked me ………………………………

Rewrite the questions using reported speech.

1 ‘Did you speak to Tony about the party?’

He asked me whether ……………………………………………..……

2 ‘What do you do at weekends?’

She asked me ……………………………………………………….………

Complete the dialogue with the correct form of

the verbs given.

A: Did you speak to your dad about going camping?

B: Yes, I did.

A: What did he say?

B: He said it (1) ……………………… (not be) a good idea.

A: Why not?

B: He thought it (2) ……………………… (will be) too cold.

A: Oh.

B: Yes, and he said that it (3) ……………………… (be going to)

rain.

A: Really? I haven’t heard that.

B: Yes. He said he (4) ……………………… (read) the weather

forecast. He also said that we (5) ………………………

(have to) revise for our exams.

A: Yes. I suppose he’s right. We have got an exam on

Monday.

Complete the email with one word in each gap.

Hi Luisa,

(1) ………… you hear that interview with the young writer Chris Parkin on the radio yesterday? It was really good. The interviewer asked him (2) ……… he had started writing at such a young age and which writers (3) ………influenced him. He replied that he (4) ………read very much when he was a child, but then when he was a teenager, his favourite authors had (5) ……… Agatha Christie and Shakespeare! The interviewer asked him (6) ………… his plans were for the next year and he said that a film company had bought the rights to his first story and the film (7) ………… be in the cinemas soon. The interviewer asked if he had changed any of the story, but he said that they hadn’t asked (8) ………… to. It was going to be exactly like he’d written it.

Complete the sentences with these prepositions. in • out (x2) • over • through

1 We had to cross ……… the wrong answers in the exercise.

2 I always flick ……a book in the shop before I buy it.

3 The teacher asked us to read ………… the answers in class.

4 We have to fill ………… our application forms for the sports club soon.

5 We can’t turn ………… our papers until the exam begins.

Choose the correct alternatives to complete the sentences

1 I never read romance/horror stories before bed because I get nightmares.

2 I like fantasy/thriller novels – they’re full of magic and mystery!

3 I’ve just read a great thriller/crime. You have no idea what’s going to happen until the last page.

4 By reading graphic novels/historical fiction you can learn a lot about the past as well as enjoy a good story.

5 I got a play/graphic novel for my birthday. It’s from Japan and the artwork is fantastic.

Read the article about online newspapers. Six sentences are missing from the article. Choose from the sentences A–F the one which fits each gap.

_{A Many say that the idea of the Internet is to allow people to have free information and they will not agree to pay for it.}

_{B Will they start buying newspapers again?}

_{C So why should we pay for newspapers anymore?}

_{D Unsurprisingly some of the big papers have started charging people to read their newspapers online.}

_{E People started turning to the Internet to provide them with a daily news report.}

_{F The newspaper is part of our culture.}

News online

For many people, buying and reading a newspaper is part of their daily routine. They enjoy spending time searching the pages for interesting political stories, laughing at cartoons, catching up with the latest sports results and reading about celebrity scandals. They take their newspapers into work, on the bus or into a café, and reading it over breakfast is a tradition for many people. (1) ………… Or is it?

There has been a news revolution going on over the last few years. (2) ………Some newspapers started putting their reports online and now nearly all the major newspapers have online versions. We can access most of these free of charge from laptops, mobile phones and other hand-held devices. (3) …....

However, the popularity of online news is being tested. Because news is now so widely available online, newspapers are losing money. Fewer people are buying newspapers so companies have to spend more to maintain their websites. And because Internet news contains videos and graphics, the costs are even higher. (4) ……

The newspapers have a difficult choice to make. Will people continue to visit their sites if they have to pay? Will they visit another newspaper’s site which is still free? (5) ……Experts do not agree on what is going to happen. (6)………Others, however, have said that this step is inevitable and soon we shall have to pay more for information that we find online. We’ll have to wait to see what happens.