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The police officer said that they would search the area after Henry reported that his bike had been stolen. Henry then said that he had left his bike outside the post office. The police officer said that they would study CCTV footage of the street. Henry further said that he had bought his bike the previous weekend. The police officer told Henry that there had been many bike thefts recently. Henry also said that his bike had been very expensive. The police officer concluded by saying that expensive bikes were popular targets for thieves.

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8D Reported Speech 2 1-1

The police officer said that they would search the area after Henry reported that his bike had been stolen. Henry then said that he had left his bike outside the post office. The police officer said that they would study CCTV footage of the street. Henry further said that he had bought his bike the previous weekend. The police officer told Henry that there had been many bike thefts recently. Henry also said that his bike had been very expensive. The police officer concluded by saying that expensive bikes were popular targets for thieves.

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8D Reported speech (2)

1 Put these sentences into reported speech. 2 Circle the correct words. Then complete the dialogue.
Henry 1said / told the police officer that someone had
stolen his bike. The police officer 2said / told that they
would search the area. Henry 3said / told that he had
left his bike outside the post office. The police officer
4
said / told him that they would study CCTV footage
of the street. Henry 5said / told that he had bought
his bike the weekend before. The police officer 6said /
told to Henry that there had been a lot of bike thefts
recently. Henry 7said / told them that his bike had been
very expensive. The police officer 8said / told Henry
that expensive bikes were very popular with thieves.

Henry Help! Someone’s stolen my bike.


Police Officer Oh no! We 9 .
Henry Thank you. I 10 post
office.
Police Officer We 11 of the street.
Henry I 12 last weekend.
Police Officer There 13 recently.
1 ‘I can see something strange in my garden.’
Henry My 14 expensive.
The woman said that garden.
Police Officer Yes, well, expensive bikes
2 ‘I didn’t steal your bag!’ 15
with thieves.
She said that .
3 ‘He’s already spent six years in prison. 3 SPEAKING Work in pairs. Complete the sentences
with your own ideas. Read out the sentence endings
She said that in prison.
to your partner. Can your partner guess the sentence
4 ‘We’re looking for witnesses to the crime.’ beginnings?
They said that to the crime. The police officer told the burglar that …
5 ‘CCTV footage will probably give us some more The head teacher told the student that …
clues.’ The old lady told the child that …
The police said that some The child told the old lady that …
more clues. The bank manager told the customer that …

6 ‘We won’t forget to lock our front door again!’ The author told the audience that …

They said that again. … he was making too much noise.


7 ‘We will continue our search until we find the
culprit.’ The old lady told the child that he
They said that the culprit. was making too much noise.

8 ‘They can’t search my house without permission.’


No. The head teacher told the student
He said that permission.
that he was making too much noise.

Solutions Third Edition Pre-Intermediate photocopiable © Oxford University Press

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