1. Put the following direct speech into reported speech.

a 'I'm exhausted!' he said.

b 'Are you leaving on Friday?' she asked me.

c 'We haven't seen Jack for a long time,' they said.

d 'We flew to Madrid,' they said.

e 'Which airport did you fly from?' I asked them.

f ‘The flight has been cancelled,' the announcement said.

g 'Our plane was delayed by five hours,' they told us.

h ‘What time did it take off?' she asked.

i 'I'll help you unpack,' he said.

j 'I can't do this exercise,' he told the teacher.

2. What's the difference in meaning in the following examples of reported speech? Discuss with a partner.

a Beatrice said she lived in New York.

Beatrice said she'd lived in New York.

b Moira told her mother that she'd love John.

Moira told her mother that she loved John.

c Adam asked them how they'd travel to Paris.

Adam asked them how they'd travelled to Paris.

What did the people actually say in direct speech?

/From New Headway English Course, Intermediate Student’s Book, Liz and John Soars/

3. The cnn reporter Manav Tanneeru interviewed Kevin Mitnick, a notorious American hacker.

a. Read the information about Kevin Mitnick and answer the question below.

Why is Kevin Mitnick famous?

To many people, the name Kevin Mitnick is synonymous with hacking. But Mitnick says the legend is untrue.

It is true, he says, that he broke into corporate computer systems and stole source code to satisfy his curiosity, but he denies the stories that he hacked into NORAD – North American Aerospace Defense Command – or that he wiretapped the FBI.

The FBI arrested Mitnick in 1995. He served five years in prison after pleading guilty to charges of wire and computer fraud. He was released in 2000 and today runs a computer security firm.

Kevin Mitnick

b. Now read the interviewer’s notes and report which questions he intended to ask.

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1. why / become so famous? 2. what / make of your celebrity? 3. how / firm / been received? 4. how easy / to hack a computer? security improved? 5. how much / trust online banking, usage of credit cards online? 6. pay bills online / shop online? 7. worried about ID theft? 8. miss being on the run?

1. wiretapped the FBI - something out of a movie like “War Games” "Enemy of the State"; true - took code from Motorola and Nokia to look at the information 3. people who don’t trust me; but company receives phone calls, keep business going pretty well 4. get hired to hack into computers now, easier than years ago; only thing that’s changed – technical issues; depends on vigilance of operators of computer systems and network 5. trust online banking; if somebody hacks into my account, bank takes the loss 7. somebody stole my identity once, used it to apply for cell phone account; $400 bill, used mom’s address in Las Vegas when I was living in California under my name; really easy, all you need to steal someone’s identity – social security number

/Adapted from http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/10/07/kevin.mitnick.cnna/index.html/

c. Report the whole interview. Pay attention to the fact that the interviewer did not have time to ask all the questions.