You’re visiting Italy for the first time and your friend Paolo has given you some advice about customs and habits in Italy. Report the advice.
• Don’t call people by their first name until they have asked you to do so.
• Don’t be late when you have arranged to meet someone.
• Offer the people who have invited you to their home sweets or flowers.
• Always offer an even number of flowers.
• Don’t talk about religion or politics.
• Dress simply and with a touch of style.
Paolo told me not to call people...
Совет в повелительном наклонении передаём формой told me + to-infinitive. Отрицательный совет: told me not to + глагол. Поэтому первые два и пятый пункты начинаются с not to call, not to be, not to talk. Положительные советы — to offer и to dress. Сохраняем уточнения: until they had asked me, when I had arranged, people who had invited me. Число цветов в условии именно even — чётное; передаём это без изменения смысла.
Paolo told me not to call people by their first name until they had asked me to do so. He told me not to be late when I had arranged to meet someone. He told me to offer sweets or flowers to the people who had invited me to their home. He told me always to offer an even number of flowers. He told me not to talk about religion or politics. He told me to dress simply and with a touch of style.
