ESERCIZI DI REPORTED SEACH/RELATIVES/CONNECTORS

 

ES. 1

1) but/ or  2) and/but. 3) or/ and 4) and

 

ES. 2 

1) by the time  2) until  3) after  4) As soon as  5) until  6) While

 

ES. 3

1) Al though he’s tired, he can’t sleep

2) Although it’s expensive, I’m going to buy it

3) Al though she works hard, she doesn’t earn much money

4) Al though Dave has a car, he prefers cycling

5) Al though we played badly, we won

6) Al though she borrowed my pen, she didn’t say thank you

7) Al though I recognized her, I couldn’t remember her name

 

ES. 4 

1) Andrea is listening to the radio

2) Does Sara play the guitar?

3) Isabel has not arrived

4) The sun has come out

5) We like Lebanese food

6) What languages can Daniel speak?

7) Jim plays the clarinet

8) Trish is a nurse

9) She looks really unhappy

10) Rita can’t speak any Serbian

 

ES. 5 

1) This is the exam which I did really badly in

2) Stefano is the student who I studied English with

3) This is the library which we go to for quiet study

4) Rita is the teacher who’s married to my cousin

5) This is the song to which we had to listen in class

 

ES. 6

1) X them for Alison 

2) ✔ 

3) X it to me

4) X them forme

5) ✔

6) X it to us  

7) X it to him 

8) ✔

 

ES. 7

1) The managers didn’t like the proposal and neither did the workers

2) A few people in my department speak French and so do I, actually

3) Don’t worry. Nor can I 

4) Yes, so am I, actually

 

PARTE 2

ES. 1

1)h  2)f  3)g  4)a  5)d  6)e  7)b  8)c

 

ES. 2

1) was going

2) had never understood

3) had been

4) didn’t take

5) couldn’t

6) rang

 

ES. 3

1) During 

2) while

4) As soon as

5) Mean while

6)By the time

 

ES. 4

1) What’s more

2) In spite of this

3) However

4) As well as

5) In addition to 

6) though

7) Even so

 

ES. 6 

1) that student had had three chances to pass his maths exam

2) he would phone him the next day

3) what they had said to him

4) if/whether she could come back the following week

5) she wouldn’t have any problems getting into medical school

6) they set up their own business

7) me to tell the police what I’d seen that day

 

ES. 7 

1) where you can go ice skating 

2) who won Wimbledon in 2004

3) which is very difficult to do

4) whose job is to play golf

5) when Wimbledon takes place 6 when Brazil won the World Cup

 

ES. 8

1) my son is crazy about is skateboarding

2) they want is to lie on a beach and relax

3) I’m desperate for is a nice cup of tea.

4) was the atmosphere that made the restaurant special rather than the food

5) I don’t want is to be late for work tomorrow

6) she asked for was a glass of water

7) was Alec who was a professional footballer when he was young, not David

 

ES. 9

1) Jack’s been to Spain. - No,I haven’t!

2) I’m going to wear an apron for this but you don’t need to

3) Why don’t you come to my house later? - I can’t, I’m afraid.

4) I’m not worried about it today but I was yesterday.

5) We didn’t finish the work, but we should have.

6) Come with me if you want.

7) No, you didn’t get hit but you might have.

8) There isn’t any milk. - Yes, there is.