Once upon a time a little red hen was scratching

around the barnyard when she found some grains of wheat.

She called her neighbors and Said, If we plant this wheat,
we shall have bread to eat. Who Will help me plant it?
I Will not, said the cow.
Neither will I, said the duck.
I wont either, said the pig.
Not me, said the goose.
Then the little red hen said that she would plant the
wheat by herself, and she did it. The wheat grew and
ripened.
The little red hen asked Who would help her reap the
wheat.
Not me, said the duck.
Out of my classification, said the pig.
I would go against my union regulations, said the cow.
I would lose my unemployment compensation, said the goose.
Then I Will, said the little red hen, and she also reaped the wheat by herself.
At last, it was time to bake the Bread. Who helped me baked the Bread?, asked the
little hen.
The cow said that it would be overtime for her.
The duck said that it would be overtime for him, too.
The pig said that it was his day off.
If I am the only helper, that will be discrimination, said the goose.
Then I Will, said the little red hen. She baked five loaves of bread and showed them to
her neighbors.
They all wanted some in fact, demanded a share. But the little red hen said that could
eat five loaves herself.
Excess profits, yelled the cow.
If you have a right to eat, so do I cried the duck.
I demand equal rights, shouted the goose.
The pig Just grunted. Then they quickly painted protest signs and marched around the
barnyard shouting.
The government agent come and said to the little red hen, You must not be greedy.
But I earned the Bread, said the little red hen.
Exactly, said the agent. This is the wonderful system of free enterprise. Anyone in the
barnyard can earn as much as He want. But under the government regulations, the productive
workers must divide their product with the idle. I suppose you have misbehaved.
And they lived happily ever after. But the little red hens neighbors wondered why she
never baked bread again.

1) Answer the questions acording to text.

a) Who did the little red hen call for help?
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b) What happened to the wheat after she had planted it?
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c) Who helped her when she needed?
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d) Why did the animals march around the barnyard shouting?
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e) What did the agent say?
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2) Find the opposits

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1 ) updated
2 ) well-known
3 ) at last
4 ) quickly
5 ) productive
6 ) never
7 ) no one
8 ) behave
9 ) many
10 ) little

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initially
slowly
everyone
obsolete
misbehave
unknown
large
always
idle
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3) Put the sentences into the correct order, according to the

text.
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) Nobody helped her bake the Bread.

) She had to plant the wheat by herself.
) The little red hen found some grains of wheat.
) Everybody demanded a share of the bread.
) She reaped it without any help.

REPORTED SPEECH-GRAMMAR
If we report what another person has said, we usually do not use the speakers exact words
(direct speech), but reported (indirect) speech. Therefore, you need to learn how to
transform direct speech into reported speech. The structure is a little different depending on
whether you want to transform a statement, question or request.
Verbs changes
Direct speech
Reported speech
Simple Present
Simple Past
Simple Past
Past Perfect
Simple Future
Conditional (would)
Present Continuous
Past Continuous
Past Continuous
Past Perfect Continuous
Future Continuous
Conditional Continuous
Present Perfect
Past Perfect
Future Perfect
Conditional Perfect

Adverbs changes
Direct speech
Reported speech
Today
That Day
Yestarday
The day before
Tomorrow
The next Day
Now
Then
...ago
...before
Next...
The fallowing...
Here
there
Tomorrow
Later

1) Suply the correct form of the verbs

a) I said, I dont feel well today.
I said that I _____________________ well that day.
b) Mother said, The girls are playing in the park.
Mother said that the girls ______________________ in the park.
c) She said, I will be your new teacher.
She said that she _________________________ my new teacher.
d) George said, I read the newspaper yestarday.
e) My father said, I will be working tomorrow.
My father said that He ___________________________ the next day.

2) Put into the report speech

a) Peter said, I am working now.
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b) The boys said, We are going to buy some balls.
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c) The bus driver said, I will have reached San Francisco next Friday.
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d) My friends said, We want to swin now.
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e) He said I ate popcorn last night.
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f) Jane said, Joe didnt come this morning.
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g) Albert said, Raymond was playing in my room na hour ago.
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3) Put into the direct speech.

a) Julie said that she would receive a letter from Bill.
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b) James said that i had to see his work that day.
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c) They said that they were stadying history then.
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d) Mrs Alison said that she was my new teacher.
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e) Alice said that she went to school with her father.
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