Answer — Exercise 6
12.1 - Caught on film·Speakout Pre-Intermediate - Students' Book
Question
- Put the paragraph below into reported speech. Begin each sentence with He told me or He said.
- Listen to different ways of saying He told me he was an actor. How does the stress affect the message?
- Listen to the sentences and read audio script 12.2 on page 176. Which words are stressed? Why?
Answer
a)
- He said / told me (that) he loved his job, but he didn't like playing criminals.
- He said / told me (that) he lived in Hollywood, where he worked as a waiter.
b)
The speaker uses stress to emphasise certain words and thereby changes the meaning.
c)
The people or the jobs are stressed according to what the speaker wishes to emphasise each time.