I. Rewrite the following sentences so that their meaning stays the same, using the word given: 1. Don’t miss seeing the Opera House when you are in Sydney. Don’t ______________________________________________________. (forget) 2. There will be a discussion about the possibility of using video chatting at this time next week. People ______________________________________________________. (discussing) 3. Landline telephones are predicted not to be used in 2030. People ______________________________________________________. (using) 4. I don’t feel like chatting online at the moment. I’d ______________________________________________________.(prefer) 5. “Where can I buy a phone card in this city?” he asked. ______________________________________________________. 6. “Close the door, please! It’s very noisy.” ______________________________________________________. 7. “Do you speak any other languages?”Mr. Baker asked me. ______________________________________________________. 8. “What subject do you find the most difficult?” My mother asked. _______________________________________________________________ . 9. “Please repeat what you have said,” she asked John. ___________________________________________________________. 10. “I like to do physics experiments.” He said that ________________________________________________. II. Change these sentences into passive voice: 1. The mudslide buried five houses in a village in the eastern region. ___________________________________________________________. 2. The volunteers have rescued three cats. ___________________________________________________________. 3. They are cutting dead trees on some streets to prepare for the forthcoming storm. ___________________________________________________________. 4. We should move the furniture to higher places because of the flood. ___________________________________________________________. 5. They had repaired their house before the typhoon came. ___________________________________________________________. III. Turn these sentences into direct speech from reported speech. 1. The boss asked me how many languages I could speak. ___________________________________________________________. 2. My friends wanted to know if he would stay there with me some more days. ___________________________________________________________. 3. I wondered if they were going to build a new school in that area the following year. ___________________________________________________________. 4. They wanted to discover what made the new land different from others. ___________________________________________________________. 5. People wondered why the security of the earth would be threatened. ___________________________________________________________. 6. We asked the aliens which cities they would visit the following month. ___________________________________________________________. 7. Hoa asked me whether I had been leaving the spaceship at 3 o’clock the day before. ___________________________________________________________. 8. The reporter wanted to know why I hadn’t taken a picture when I had seen the UFO. ___________________________________________________________. 9. I asked Ms Gray if she could speak Martian language. ___________________________________________________________. 10. She asked Mr Armstrong how long he had worked on space projects. ___________________________________________________________.