Gateway B1+ Unit 8 Test

Name I. Change these sentences into reported speech. 1 ‘I find Macbeth Shakespeare’s most fascinating play,’the director said.The director said he found Macbeth Shakespeare’s most fascinating play.2 ‘Tomorrow’s concert will be my last,’ the famous conductor told the reporters.The famous conductor told the reportersthat the following day’s concert would be his last.3 ‘Her self-portraits are more interesting than her still life paintings,’ the art critic said.The art critic said her self-portraits were more interesting than her still life paintings.4 ‘I must learn all the lyrics by heart before next week’s gig,’ Tom said.Tom said he had to learn all the lyrics by heart before the following week’s gig.5 ‘I can’t understand abstract art,’ my grandmother once told me.My grandmother once told me she couldn’t understand abstract art. II. Choose the correct alternative.1. Was it Oscar Wilde who _ that all art was quite useless? said told 2. Before the performance started, a voice off stage _ the audience to switch off their phones. asked asked to 3. You’ve always _ you didn’t like films with sad endings. told said 4. The lead singer _ the reporters that the band had decided to split. told said 5. Our art teacher _ us that people have often found Impressionism confusing. said told 6. When the actors on stage _ the audience to get up and dance, everybody stood up. asked told to III. Put the words in order to make reporting sentences. 1. He asked us what the conference was about .us Her fans wanted to know when her next album would come out.would She asked the librarian where the science fiction books were.science They asked the graffiti artist how he had got up that high wall.artist She asked the teacher if she had to do her drawing again.the The art critic wanted to know what kinds of materials the artist used in his paintings.his artist IV. Report these commands using ask or tell. 1 ‘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.2 ‘Don’t touch the sculptures!’ the museum staff told the tourists.The museum staff told the tourists not to touch the sculptures.3 ‘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.4 ‘Play one more song,’ the audience asked the band.The audience asked the band to play one more song.5 ‘Don’t look so frightened,’ the director told the actor.The director told the actor not to look so frightened. V. Choose the best answers to complete the text.A few years ago a British artist made a shocking statement when he said that taking children to art galleries was a total waste of time. He (1) a national newspaper that parents were arrogant if they (2) their children (3) abstract painters like Picasso or Jackson Pollock. However, Picasso himself once said that it (4) him four years to paint like the great Italian master Raphael but a lifetime to paint like a child. But he insisted that showing children a Pollock painting (5) an insult to the artist. Many figures in the art world strongly disagreed with him and said that ‘art (6) be understood, but felt.’ A national museum director said that children can certainly appreciate a work of art and they can all say (7) they like it or not, even if they probably don’t understand it.(1) told said told to (2) think had thought thought (3) couldn’tunderstand could understand will understand (4) has taken had taken takes (5) was is has been (6) mustn’t hadn’t to didn’t have to (7) when do if