Make Your Way 6, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

How might the story go on? Get together in groups of four and write down what happens next. Then read your story to the other members of the group, decide on the best story and read it out to the class. 18 Report the statements below from interviews with writers. 20 Grammar station I: Reporting verbs Good reporting of speech very often depends on using appropriate reporting verbs and the right structures with them. The most common are tell and say . 19 Tell normally has to be followed by a personal direct object – we make it clear who we tell something to. There are many other reporting verbs you can use, and you should try to remember a good number of these to give variety and continuity to your reports: claim suggest explain observe note remark continue add ask reply regret warn insist remind Remember that as a rule the verb forms in reported speech move back in time . Say is used without a personal direct object . Examples: The woman told the firemen that they could never have her books. Montag told Clarisse that he had been a fireman for ten years. Examples: Clarisse asked Montag how long he had been a fireman. Beatty warned the woman that the whole house was going up. The woman insisted that she wanted to stay there. Montag reminded Clarisse that reading books was against the law. Example: “You can come with me.”  Montag told the woman she could come with him. Example: “I don’t care about my readers.” ( He said ... )  He said he didn’t care about his readers. Examples: Montag said that houses had always been fireproof. Captain Beatty said that he was counting to ten. JK Rowling:  “Sometimes the ideas just come to me.   Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to  make ideas come.” (She claimed …)  “When I’ve finally finished all seven Harry Potter books,    I will write something else.” (She promised …)  “I’ve been writing since I was six. It is a compulsion.”   (She explained …)  “I am not a great fan of fantasy books in general,   and never read them!” (She remarked …) Isaac Asimov:  “l am not a pulp writer.” (He denied …)  “… but l admit that l was a pulp writer   in my early days.” (He admitted …)  “There’s nothing wrong with being a pulp writer!” (He insisted …)  “Have you never read any pulp fiction?” (He wanted to know if the interviewer …) pulp writer: Autor von Schundliteratur 65 3 Extensive unit 3: I love books Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv