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PRACTICE

10 Complete the exercises.
A Look at the photo and read the caption. Then read the conversation about insects in space.
Rewrite the conversation as quoted speech.

Spidernauts?

Hong: What are you watching?
Tina: It’s a video about insects in space.
Hong: Are you serious?

Tina: Yes, astronauts sometimes take
spiders and ants into space.
Hong: Oh, why do they do that?
Nefertiti, the first jumping spider in space,
Tina: They study their movements spent more than three months in orbit and
and feeding habits. circled the Earth over 1500 times.

1. Hong asked , “What are you watching?”

2. Tina replied.

3. Hong asked

4. Tina said

5. Hong asked.

6. Tina said

Real eNGlIsh

Speakers often use “filler” language, such as um, well,
and hmm. This language is not included in reported
speech. Yes and no are also not reported.
Exact Words Reported Speech
Um, I like traveling. She said she liked traveling.
B Review the conversation in exercise A. No, I don’t mind. He said he didn’t mind.
Then complete the reported speech.

1. Hong asked Tina what she was watching.

2. Tina replied that

3. Hong asked

4. Tina said

5. Hong asked

6. Tina said

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