Language Skills II, Homework for Week 5

For homework complete the following exercises:
Reported speech:  http://speakspeak.com/english-grammar-exercises/upper-intermediate/reported-speech
Conditionals and if-clauses: https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/tests/conditional-sentences-3

Also: please listen to a podcast in response to today's election results and take notes on it.  

Uni life hacks as conditional clauses (Types 0-3)
Type 0: If you take careful notes, you do better on exams.
Type 1: If Ersti-Ralley binge drinking is not your thing, you will still find friends elsewhere.
Type 2: If I had to do it all over again, I'd still be an English major.
Type 3:  If I had taken the introductory courses seriously, I wouldn't have to retake them now.

Notes on "if I were": https://www.cliffsnotes.com/cliffsnotes/subjects/writing/which-is-correct-if-i-was-or-if-i-were-and-why

On reporting someone else's reported speech:
If I have the following scenario in which my partner, describing a pivotal moment in his life, tells me, "My high school music teacher had a big impact on me when she said, "George, I believe in you and the sky's the limit.'"

In reported speech, I would say this as follows: George said that his high school music had had a big impact on him when she said that she believed in him and that the sky was the limit.

Notice that all of the verbs are transformed using the principles from the table we completed in class today: namely, the verbs "move one step back in time". The only expression that remains the same is the simple past for "said" and this is generally true for introducing reported speech in general; no matter what verb I choose (report, whisper, yell, murmur, scream, etc.), it stays in the simple past to introduce reported/indirect speech.

Answers to the listening comprehension from last week:
a) Pipeline crosses sacred land and could contaminate natural resources
b) crossed property where pipeline is being built, constructed wooden bridge to get at it, swimming across river to get to it
c) in favor of rerouting the pipeline and accomodating sacred lands
d) stalemate
e) set of demands unlikely to come into fruition