1. Change time expressions and other words in the reported speech if necessary (Измени обозначения времени и другие слова в косвенной речи, если необходимо).

1. ‘Bill is moving house next month.’ — He said that Bill was moving house .
2. ‘It’s such a scary film!’ — Sam said that it was scary film.
3. ‘It’s cold here.’ — Paul said that it was cold

2. Fill in the correct pronoun (Впиши подходящее по смыслу местоимение).

1. ‘I’ve lost my watch.’ — He said
had lost
watch.
2. We haven’t got a key.’ — My parents said
didn’t have a key.
3. ‘This is a strange thing,’ Sally said. — Sally said that
was a strange thing.

1 I have heard both reports. The first was much more interesting than the second.
2 This text is even more difficult than the one we translated recently.
3 It is an extremely important issue.
4 Every day the weather is getting worse.
5 Today it is hotter than it was yesterday.
6 I did not think that my new work would be so difficult.
7 This problem is not as serious as you think.
8 The language of this article is easier. Start with this one.
9 We need smaller cabinet as the room cis small.
10 Your brother is a very capable man; he is the most capable of our young scientists.
11 I advise you to go this way because this is the way to go.
12 The coat is not worse after it has been cleaned.
13 The more you are in the open air, the better your health will be.
14 Who is the best athlete in the team?
15 This time I have fewer mistakes than I had in my last essay.

It is almost impossible to imagine our life without TV. It plays a great and a very important role in the life of modern man. There is practically no family that doesn't have a TV set. TV is one of the mass media kinds. Radio and newspapers tell us about different events but TV not only tells but also shows. TV has a lot of channels and everybody can watch the programs he likes. Our television suggests various programs: talk show and game show, news and sporting events, about animals and about foreign countries and so on. Soaps-lovers can watch their favorite films almost every day. TV shows us a lot of films of different countries: detective and melodrama, comedy and triller. As former I like to see adventure films, fantasy, comedies. My favorite sporting events programs are about volleyball, swimming, track-and-field athletics and gymnastic. I watch many programs with great interest. These programs are: a wild nature program, "Anshlag", some game shows and so on. There are a lot of films (most of them of foreign TV-companies) with a great number of corpses, with seas of blood now. It's not very good to my mind. I think that one of the aims of TV is to bring up TV-viewers, to cultivate love to our country, kindness and other positive features of character.