6. You’ve attended the presentation of an American lecturer Mr. Hammerton. Change the notes below into Indirect statements and tell your partner about his presentation.
Mr. Hammerton said:
“Electronics is one of the largest and fastest growing industries.”
“An electronic component is a basic electronic element and may be available in a discrete form having two or more electrical terminals (or leads).”
“Basic electronic components may be packaged discretely.”
“Passive components are ones which cannot introduce net energy into the circuit they are connected to.”
“Among passive components are familiar two-terminal components such as resistors, capacitors, inductors, and most sorts of diodes.”
“Active components rely on a source of energy and are usually able to inject power into a circuit although this is not part of the definition.”
“In practice all non-ideal passive components are at least a little lossy.”
7. Change wh-questions from Direct Speech into Indirect Speech. Start your sentences with the words in brackets.
1. Where did Mr. Jameson put the results of the test? (I forgot...) 2. Who has designed you this integrated ciruit ? (She wanted to know...) 3. Where can I buy components for this device? (He asked me...) 4. How long will it take you to conduct the experiment? (He wondered...) 5. Where is he going? (He didn't tell anybody...) 6. Where has he gone? (Did you know...) 7. Where is professor Haterick? (Did you know...) 8. When is he graduating from the university? (I wanted to know...) 9. When does the meeting start? (Nobody knew...) 10. When will professor Addison come back from his academic trip? (She asked them...) 11. Where did you buy this old vacuum tube? (He wanted to know...) 12. How much did he pay for it? (I had no idea...)
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9. Change Direct commands into Indirect.
Model: Keep quiet! Don’t make noise! – He told me (He asked me) to keep quiet and not to make noise.
1. The student said to the lecturer: "Explain the equation one more time, please." 2. Director said to his secretary: "Send the letter to our partners and give a report on their answer." 3. "Please help me with soldering, Henry," said Robert. 4. "Please give me some more examples of your solution," he said to the employee. 5. "Don't worry over such a small thing and come here tomorrow." said professor Smith. 6. I said to Mike: "Send me the test results as soon as you receive them." 7. The lecturer said to them: "Don't mix passive and active components." 8. "Take my luggage to Room 145," he said to the porter. 9. He said to me: "Call me tomorrow ." 10. "Bring me a list of the books we’ll need in this term," she said to her groupmate. 11. "Don't be late for classes," said the deputy dean. 12. Jane said to us: "Please tell me all you know about it." 13. She said to Nick: "Please don't say anything about it to your sister."