Activity 4.2 - Practising Reported Speech
Report these sentences. Try to use various reporting verbs. Don’t forget that you should paraphrase the author’s words, not only practise report.
1. Nickerson (2001): “…Increasing financial strains on family farms/ranches have put pressure on these businesses to look outside agriculture as a means to sustain the operation.”
2. Sonnino (2004): “In theory, agritourism is a sustainable strategy: in its stated objectives, it promotes the conservation of a broadly conceived rural environment through its socioeconomic development”
3. Bernardoet al. (2005): “Finally, what does the industry contribute in terms of economic impact to the state’seconomy?”
4. Dai and You (2006): “ The leisure agritourism marks the change of the tourism pattern from the traditional sightseeing tourism to the new leisure and holiday one, which is an advancedf orm of the agricultural tourism.”
5. Bernardoet al. (2005): “ Some important questions include: (1) Where do agritourism visitors come from?, (2) What are the characteristics of these visitors?, (3) Why do they come?, and (4) What do they spend their money on?”