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EXERCISE 34, p. 427. Reported speech. (Charts 14 - 9 →14 -11)Students can use reporting verbs other than those in the quoted speech sentences,but the answers below use the same ones used in the text.ANSWERS:Conversation One: Susan asked me where Bill was. I told her (that) he was in the lunchroom. She wanted to know when he would be back in his office. I said (that) he would beback around two.Conversation Two: Mrs. Ball asked her husband if he could help her clean the hall closet.Mr. Ball told his wife (that) he was really busy. She wanted to know what he was doing. Hereplied (that) he was fixing the zipper on his winter jacket. Then she asked him if /whetherhe would have some time to help her after he fixed the zipper. He said (that) he couldn’tbecause he had to watch a really important ball game on TV. With a note of exasperation inher voice, Mrs. Ball finally said (that) she would clean the closet herself.

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EXERCISE 35, p. 428. Reported speech. (Charts 14 - 9 →14 -11)Make sure all the students understand the format of the cartoon, i.e., that the story shouldbe read from top left to top right to bottom left to bottom right.ANSWERS: (that) he wasn’t going to have . . . wasn’t hungry . . . had (already) eaten . . . hehad come . . . he needed to talk to her about a problem he was having at work.

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EXERCISE 36, p. 428. Reported speech. (Charts 14 - 9 →14 -11)Put the focus on the activity, not the grammar. This exercise requires fairly sophisticateduse of a second language. Praise highly whatever target structures are used in the reportsand let other errors go.

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EXERCISE 37, p. 429. Error analysis: noun clauses. (Chapter 14)As in other error-analysis exercises, these sentences are adapted from actual student writing.Students often like to know that.ANSWERS: 2. I don’t know what is your e-mail address is. 3. I think so that Mr.Lee is out of town. 4. Can you tell me that where Victor 5. . . . what kind ofmovies does he likes. 6. I think (no comma)that my English 7. Itis true thatpeople are 8. . . . I didn’tknow who he was. 9. I want to know if Pedro hasalaptop computer. 10. . . . what do they say. 11. . . . He told me/ said that hedidn’tlike (also possible:doesn’t like) 12. . . . and asked me,“Where is your brother?”