Передайте следующие общие вопросы в косвенной речи 1 I said to my mother, «Did anybody come to see me?» 3. I asked my sister, «Will Nick call for you on the way to school? » 4. She said to the young man, «Can you call a taxi for me?»

Ihave many favorite hobbies. i love to read, i like to ride a bike, and i love the story. but my main hobby is drawing. i started drawing when i was little. mother and father very often gave me pens in a variety of colors, colored pencils and a beautiful white paper for drawing. i like to portray on a clean sheet something beautiful, plants, animals, sometimes people. so often i've done cards for mom and dad.   however, first my pictures were not the best. something was awry, something that did not happen. but i always continued to draw. now, i think i can draw very well. my works hang on the walls in my room. i often send your creations to competitions of children's drawings and often receive diplomas and prizes.  moreover, i go to art school. i like it very much. in art school there is an atmosphere of skill and creativity. we draw still lifes, sometimes people. in the summer we go to picnic and draw nature, flowers, forest, trees, houses.   now my drawings are pretty good. but someday i want to learn to draw like the great russian painters i. shishkin, i. aivazovsky, k. bryullov and! i'm sure i'll be able to draw even better if i tried.

Yesterday protesters managed to hold up work on the Oldbury bypass. Protest leader Alison Compton defended the action by members of the Green World group. 'If we don't protest, soon (►) there'll be (there / be) no countryside left,' she told reporters. The bypass is now well behind schedule, and if the protesters had not held up the work so often, it would have opened two months ago. 'If these fields disappear, we'll never see them again,' said Ms Compton. 'Why can't we use public transport? If more people travelled on buses and trains, we wouldn't need new roads. If the motor car had never existed, the world would have been a more pleasant place today.' But many people in Oldbury want their new bypass. 'If they do not build it soon, the traffic jams in the town will get worse,' said Asif Mohammed, whose house is beside the busy A34. 'We just can't leave things as they are. If things remained the same, people's health will suffer even more from all the pollution here. It's terrible. If we don't get the traffic out of the town, I will go mad. If I had known earlier how bad this problem would get, I would have moved out years ago. But now it has become impossible to sell this house because of the traffic. The government waited too long. If they had done something sooner, there would be less traffic today' And the protest is making the new road even more expensive. 'If this goes on, there won't be enough money left to finish the road,' says the Transport