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Regrets 12

Grammar 2 Reported speech

Sir Isaac Newton Charles Darwin

D. Complete the text with the correct form of
the words in exercise B on the previous page.
Discuss the questions.

Jurassic Park is a 1993 film in which two
1 visit a theme park where Marie Curie Edmond Halley
there are dinosaurs. The owner of the park is
having some 2 because the
people who were going to invest in the project A. Read the maxims below, and match them with a
are worried about how safe it is. Unfortunately, scientist.
one of the park’s employees wants to steal
1. This astronomer, who was born in 1656, thought
the technology for creating dinosaurs so he there would never be a more difficult problem
can sell it to a 3 competitor.
than working out the distance from the sun to the
The film is full of action, as are the sequels.
Earth.
For example, in the second film, the main
2. This physicist, who won the Nobel Prize in 1911,
characters are trapped in a vehicle which is said that nothing in life was to be feared, it was
about to fall off a 4 .
only to be understood.
1. Have you seen any of the Jurassic Park films? 3. This scientist, who discovered gravity, wrote that
if he had seen further, it was by standing on the
2. Would you go to a theme park with real
dinosaurs? Why/Why not? shoulders of giants.
4. This scientist, who was interested in evolution,
3. Do you think it’s a good idea to create living
copies of animals which are extinct? once said that a man who dared to waste one
Why/Why not? hour of time had not discovered the value of life.

B. Mark the statements as true (T) or false (F).
E. Work with a partner to write a dialogue expressing
disappointment. Use one of the situations below or 1. You must always use that after the reporting verb.
your own idea. 2. With most structures, the tense moves “backwards”
in time when using reported speech.
• You were working for hours on a project then the
computer lost everything. 3. Pronouns don’t change in the reported phrase.
4. You may need to make changes to time
• You entered a robotics competition but didn’t win.
references.
• Your new phone has stopped working.

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