Gateway B1+ Unit 8 Grammar revision | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

‘Don’t look so frightened,’ the director told the actor.

The director told the actor not to look so frightened.

‘Play one more song,’ the audience asked the band.

The audience asked the band to play one more song.

‘Write an accurate description of the painting,’ the teacher asked her students.

The teacher asked her students to write an accurate description of the painting.

‘Don’t touch the sculptures!’ the museum staff told the tourists.

The museum staff told the tourists not to touch the sculptures.

‘Buy the tickets online to avoid the queues,’ the tour guide told the visitors.

The tour guide told the visitors to buy the tickets online to avoid the queues.

‘What kind of materials do you use in your paintings?’, the art critic asked the artist.

The art critic asked/wanted to know what kind of materials the artist used in his/her paintings.

‘Do I have to do the drawing again?’, the student asked the teacher.

The student asked the teacher if she/he had to do the drawing again.

‘How did you get up that high wall?’, they asked the graffiti artist.

They asked the graffiti artist how he/she had got up that high wall.

‘Where are the science fiction books?’, she asked the librarian.

She asked the librarian where the science fiction books were.

‘When will your next album come out?’, her fans wanted to know.

Her fans wanted to know when her next album would come/be coming out.

‘What was the conference about?’, the teacher asked a colleague.

The teacher asked a colleague what the conference was about.

‘I don’t like abstract art because I can’t understand it,’ my grandmother once told me.

My grandmother once told me she didn’t like abstract art because she couldn’t understand it.

Tom said he had to learn the tunes of the songs before he wrote the lyrics.

‘I have to learn the tunes of the songs before I write the lyrics,’ Tom said.

‘I think her still life paintings represent her better than her self-portraits,’ the art critic said.

The art critic said he/she thought the artist’s still life paintings represented her better than her self-portraits.

The conductor of the orchestra told the reporters that the following day’s concert would be his last before he retired.

‘Tomorrow’s concert will be my last before I retire,’ the conductor of the orchestra said.

‘This is the most fascinating play I have read in a long time,’ the director said.

The director said that was the most fascinating play she/he had read in a long time.