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The key answer of exercise 8

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 8.2 - Winners for the textbook New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Araminta Crace and Richard Acklam from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Listen and complete each example with two words.
  2. Compare the reported speech in the Active grammar box with the direct speech from exercise 8a. Find examples of the changes (1-6) and write them in the box.

Answer

a)

  1. are talking
  2. help me
  3. How do
  4. is to
  5. can help
  6. improved dramatically

b)

  1. are talking → were talking
  2. could
  3. we → they; you → he
  4. me → her
  5. today → that day
  6. will he or she win → he or she would win