X. Read the following dialogue, answer the questions and retell it in indirect speech.

Introducing People to Different Members of the Family

(An evening party at the Browns' place.)

Mike: Hello, Sam, nice of you to come. Take off your coat, will you, and let's go in. You haven't met my mother yet, have you?

Sam: No, I haven't had the pleasure, but I've met your father, don't you remember?

Mike: Oh, yes, of course. Ah, there's Mother, come on, old boy. Mum, this is Sam Williams, a friend from the College.

Sam: How do you do, Mrs. Brown?

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Mrs. Brown: How do you do? I'm glad to meet you. Will you excuse me, please, everybody seems to come at once.

Sam: Certainly, Mrs. Brown.

Mr. Brown: Good evening, Sam. This is Sam, isn't it?

Mike: Yes, Dad, you met Sam at the College last month.

Mr. Brown: Oh, yes, of course, how are you?

Sam: Good evening, Mr. Brown. I'm fine, thank you. And how are you?

Mr. Brown: Not too bad, my boy, not too bad. Let me introduce you to my daughter. Oh, where's she gone? She was here a moment ago. Oh, there she is! Ellen, come over here. This is Sam Williams, Mike's friend, take care of him, will you?

Ellen: With pleasure, Dad. How do you do?

Sam: How do you do? Haven't I seen you somewhere before?

Ellen: No, I don't think so.

Sam: But your face is so familiar. Wait a second... I know... We were on the same train to London last week.

Ellen: Oh, yes. Now I remember. What a coincidence!

Sam: Well, you know what they say - it's a small world.

Questions on the dialogue.

1. Who are the hosts of the party? At whose house does the party take place?

2. What does Mike suggest that Sam should do first?

3. Who does Mike introduce Sam to?

4. What words does Mike say when he introduces Sam to his mother?

5. What does Sam say?

6. What does Mrs. Brown say?

7. Sam needs no introduction to Mr. Brown, why?

8. Where did he meet Mr. Brown?

9. Who does Mr. Brown want to introduce Sam to?

10. Has Sam seen Ellen before? Where did he see her?

11. Why does Ellen say "What a coincidence"?

12. What does Sam reply to this?

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XI. Read the jokes. Retell them first in direct speech, then in indirect speech. Learn the funniest jokes by heart.

1.

Anne: Why don't you marry, Jane?

Jane: I will only marry a man who knows life and has learned its sorrows.

Anne: I see, a widower.

2.

- So my daughter has consented to become your wife. Have you fixed the day of the wedding?

- I will leave that to my fiancée.

- Will you have a church or a private wedding? - Her mother will decide that, sir.

What have you to live on?

- I will leave that entirely to you, sir.

3.

- Well, Sam, I'll tell you how it is. You see, I married a widow, and this widow had a daughter. Then my father, being a widower, married our daughter, so you see my father is my son-in-law.

- Yes, I see.

- Then again my stepdaughter is my stepmother, isn't she? Well, then her mother is my grandmother, isn't she? I am married to her, am I not? So that makes me my own grandson, doesn't it?

4.

Two friends met for the first time in several years.

"Well, old man," one of them said, "I hear you finally got mar­ried. Congratulations, for I also hear you have an excellent and a most accomplished wife."

"Yes, indeed," was the reply. "My wife is accomplished. She is perfectly at home in literature, at home in art, at home in music, at home in science, in short - at home everywhere, except..."

"Except what?"

"Except at home."

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5.

The tired-looking man sat facing the lawyer. "So you want a di­vorce

from your wife?" said the latter. "Aren't your relations pleas­ant? "Mine are," came the answer, "but hers are simply terrible".

6.

Jane: Is the man your sister's going to marry rich? Dick: I guess not. Every time mother talks about the wedding father says “poor man!”

7.

"Hello," he said. "Is that Mrs. Brown?" "Yes." "This is Jack speak­ing. I say, dear, will it be all right if I bring home a couple of fel­lows to dinner?" "Certainly, darling." "Did you hear what I said?"

"Yes, you asked if you could bring home a couple of fellows to dinner. Of course, you can, dear." "Sorry, madam," said the fellow as he hung up, "I have got the wrong Mrs. Brown."

8.

A husband was going about his usual daily routine on the morning of their 25th wedding anniversary, and his wife was rather annoyed. "Don't you know what day this is?" she asked.

"Of course I do," he answered.

“Well, then, let’s go to some place and celebrate. Let’s do something unusual.”

"All right," said her husband. "How about two minutes of silence?"

9.

Sonny: Father, what do they make asphalt roads of?

Father: That makes a thousand questions you've asked today. Do give me a little peace. What do you think would have happened if I had asked my father so many questions?

Sonny: You might have learned how to answer some of mine.