Retell text in indirect speech.
A n n : Hello, Steve. Have you got a minute?
S t e v e : Sure, yes. What can I do for you?
A.: I've read a number of books on the British system of higher education but I can't make head or tail of it.
S.: Mm... no wonder. What's the problem?
A.: Quite a lot of problems. What I want to discuss is the difference between a university and a college.
S.: It's like this, you see... The programme is different. At a university it is much wider. Great attention is paid to scientific subjects.
A: It sounds as though most people prefer a university.
S.: Well... that rather depends.
A.: Speaking about universities I'm not quite clear about tutorials there. What is a tutorial exactly?
S.: Oh, it's when students discuss topics with a tutor in very small groups — usually there are not more than three or four students and sometimes only one.
A.: I see... And coming back to colleges... I'm still not terribly sure what a residential college is.
S.: Erm... It's a college with a hall of residence on the same grounds as the principal building. In fact all the students live in hall.
A: Really? and what about the teaching staff?
S.: Actually the majority of the teaching staff live there too. But there are also quite a lot of non-residential colleges.
A: And you studied at university?
S.: Yes...
A.: I'd like to find myself in that university. What was it like?
S.: Well... a big grey building surrounded by trees.
A: Beautiful?
S.: Nothing very remarkable. Of course there were lecture halls, classrooms and a number of laboratories.
A: Any facilities for sport and P.E.
S.: Let me see... Yes... A gymnasium with changing rooms and showers, a tennis court... What else... A playing field for netball and football...
A.: I believe students spend a lot of time together, don't they?
S.: Definitely. We had students' societies and clubs.
A.: Am I right to believe that they are for those interested in drama and music?
S.: Quite... and also politics, modern languages, literature, science and athletics.
A: Ah... that's worth knowing.
S.: And what I'd like to add is that students themselves organize all those clubs and societies. There is usually a Students' Council or Union.
A.: Well Steve. Thanks very much. You've been most helpful.
Edgard decided to take a picture of a mountain standing next to him on the background of a dark sky. He took some pictures and did not notice anything unusual during the shooting until he began to view the photos taken.
But then he saw something strange. On the pictures at the top of the mountain there was a black, unidentified creature. At one of the shots, it seems to be preparing to uncover the wings, and on the other it is higher in the air, though not with wide open wings, but pressing them to the trunk.