Pagina 469

Esercizio 1

• Until
• When
• As soon as
• Since
• By the time
• As
• After
• Till

Esercizio 2

• Till
• By the time
• As soon as
• After
• Once
• Until
• As long as
• Before
• As
• Since

Esercizio 3

• As soon as
• before
• When
• after
• As soon as

Esercizio 4

• By the time I’ve finished play football, I will play tennis
• Just as my teacher walked in the class, we all sit down
• She’ll be sorry when you’re gone
• It’s not that cold once we open the radiator
• The horse galloped away as soon as someone scared him
• Rudy will talk about music until someone stop him
• Don’t leave after midnight
• June was running for the bus when she fell

Esercizio 5

• Until
• As long as
• While
• as long as
• While
• Until

Esercizio 6

• Then
• Finally
• In the meantime
• In the end
• At first
• After  a while
• Till
• The moment that/since
• As long as
• Ever since

Esercizio 7

• At first Connie and Steven like each other but they didn’t were classmates
•  afterwards they got engaged together and then they began to study
• Later on Steven asked to his stepbrother Liam to be his best man
• some time later they  decided to get married where Connie’s parents had god married
• In the meantime Connie asked her stepsister Camille to be her bridesmaid
• Connie and Steven were very worried that Liam and Camille wouldn’t accept their proposal
• finally  they accepted saying the  families  were happy for their relationship
• In the end about 300 Connie and Steven’s relatives, colleagues and close friends took part in wedding

Esercizio 8

• While I was falling asleep, the telephone rang
• Once you will speak a good English, you will be my guide in London
• As soon as the race finished, the public started to enter in the circuit to see better the price giving ceremony
• After I’ve finished to clean the floor, I dropped a bottle full of oil and I had to wash again the floor
• Wake me up before you leave home, so we can have breakfast together
• Yesterday it was the best day of my life so far. I will remember as long as I live
• When I went at school as a child, I always met a woman tall and elegant. Then, suddenly, I didn’t see her anymore
• At first Michela didn’t want to say us where she will go for her honeymoon . Then she said that it was a very original trip. Finally she told us that she will go to Tibet… and her boyfriend didn’t know anything.

Esercizio 9

• Because
• owing to
• Given
• because of
• due to
• Having

Esercizio 10

• due to
• as I had
• of the fact
• given her fear
• because it was
• was due to

Esercizio 11

• Because of – c
• Because – h
• due to – b
• owing to - a 
• due to – f
• because – e
• owing to – i
• Because of – g

Esercizio 12

I didn’t go to school because of coronavirus

I don’t play tennis because I’m so tired

I woke up early this morning because I had to go out

Esercizio 13

• I lost the autobus yesterday because I woke up late
• as the hotel was very nice, we decided to stay there  two more nights
• As everybody said that house was full of ghosts, nobody wanted to buy it
• Given your love to swimming, you can build a beautiful swimming pool in your garden
• I couldn’t send any e-mail due to a black out that lasted all yesterday afternoon
• Having lost my credit- card, I went to the bank for blocked it
• Michele’s victory is due to that he’s been working for months
• owing to the earthquake, many people saw their houses collapse

Esercizio 14

• so
• such
• therefore
• as a result
• so few
• so

Esercizio 15

• ice cap/therefore
• so many/air
• such an/heatwaves
• such a lot/tornadoes
• so/tsunami
• as a consequence/erupting

Esercizio 16

• Cloud has been alone for three hours so nobady control him
• As a result he destroyed three woolen cushions of the sofa
• There were so many objects all around the room that you couldn't walk into it
• Cloud had played so much with the potting compost that the floor was all dirty
• He had opened so many drawers that all the knives and forks were on the floor
• All the house was such in a mess that Jackie almost fainted
• Jackie is a very tidy woman therefore she was fourious and she began shouting
• When Jackie began shouting Cloud was frightened so it peed on the carpet

Esercizio 17

• I have got a lot to do tomorrow, so I can't go to the sea
• The thunder was so strong that we thought it was a bomb
• There are so many services in this city that I could decide to move here
• The Parliament has just approved a fur's law. As a consequence only sinthetic ones can be produced an sold
• Students had studied too little. As a result only few of them did the test well
• Alexia hadn't understood that we would go to a very elegant restaurant. Therefore she wore a pair of jeans and a T-shirt

Esercizio 18

• 1 - so as not to - i
• 2 - so that - c
• 3 - for fear of - a
• 4 - in order to - b
• 5 - in case - h
• 6 - for fear that - d
• 7 - in case - g
• 8 - lest - e

Esercizio 19

• watch where you are walking, so that you can not trip and fall
• I'll write down everything so as to do not forget anything
• correct
• I cleaned the kitchen for my wife so that I was helping her
• nobody talked to fear of woke up the children
• have some sandwiches now in case you will not find a cafè on the road
• correct
• Pass me the newspaper to read today news

Esercizio 20

• Edgar would like to kill Duchess and her three kittens in orer to inherit all the money left
• Hansel and Gretel trace a trail of white pebbles in order to find the way back home
• Eric wants to find Ariel so that they can live happily
• Peter Pan takes Wendy with him to bring her to Neverland
• The Prince has to kiss Snow White to waken up her
• The third pig built his house out of bricks for fear that the wolf might destroyed it
• Rapunzel let down her long golden hair to help the Prince climb the tower
• Cinderella has to flee at midnight lest the spell might end