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"Unless you're Native American, you came from someplace else."

Independent learning day on Monday 20th February

You should start your work on Monday in the English lesson and be ready to present your work on Tuesday.

1. Make a presentation about Estonia (google drive presentation)

     1.1. Location of Estonia (add a map and some useful facts about Estonia, national symbols, the longest river, the highest mountain, population etc) 3-4 slides

     1.2. Things to do in Estonia (p 91-92 B, choose 5-6 things. Add photos and information and what could do there.) 5-6 slides

2. Send your presentation via email to me terjema@gmail.com

3. Be ready to present your work on Tuesday. 

4. Have a look presentation marking scale HERE

Famous Scots

1. James Watt (19 January 1736 – 25 August 1819) 

2. Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) 

3. Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (known as Tony Blair) 

3. Sir Thomas Sean Connery was born 25 August 1930 in Edinburgh. 










4.Ann "Annie" Lennox, was born 25 December 1954 in Aberdeen. 


















5.  Andrew Barron "Andy" Murray was born 15 May 1987 in Glasgow. 



6. Gordon James Ramsay was born 8 November 1966 in Johnstone, though grew up in England. 

7. Sir William Wallace(died 23 August 1305) 









8. Alexander Graham Bell was born 3 March 1847 in Edinburgh. 

9. ^{Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796)} 

How to use Reported Speech

If you have a sentence in Direct Speech (otseses kõnes), try to follow 5 steps to put the sentence into Reported Speech.

1. Define the type of the sentence (statement, questions, command)

1. What tense is used in the introductory sentence (in the present or in the past)?

1. Do you have to change the person (pronoun)?

1. Do you have to backshift the tenses?

1. Do you have to change expressions of time and place?

• Direct Speech → Peter: “I work in the garden.”

• Reported Speech → Peter said (that)* he worked in the garden.

Direct Speech	Reported Speech
Simple forms
Simple Present	Simple Past
Simple Past	Past Perfect
Present Perfect
Past Perfect
will	would
Progressive forms
am/are/is	was/were
was/were	had been
has been
had been

If you use Reported Speech there are mostly two main differences.

The introductory sentence in Reported Speech can be in the Present or in the Past.

If the introductory sentences is in the Simple Present, there is no backshift of tenses.

If there is backshift of tenses in Reported Speech, the tenses are shifted the following way.

Practise HERE and HERE