2LSCA - WEEK III: 16 - 22nd March, 2020 - Online Study for Prolonged School Closure

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1. The train hasn’t left yet, so I’ll wait until it leaves.
2. Alistair is going to buy a new pair of sunglasses when he has enough money.
3. They’ll have a swim as soon as the water gets warmer.
4. Lucia has had that car once she got married.
5. By the time I got to the stadium, the match was over.
6. We have to talk to Mr. Higgins as soon as he arrives at school.
7. I like this film, I’ll go out after it finishes.
8. Robbie can’t play tennis till he completely recovers from his backache.

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1. I’ll wait for you till the bus arrives.
2. By the time you get home, I will have already fallen asleep.
3. I always check my emails every day as soon as I arrive at my office.
4. Please, don’t deliver us the goods after 15th. We’ll go on holiday on the 16th!
5. Once I have passed my driving, I will go to school by car.
6. I love staying on the beach until it gets dark!
7. My Dad wants to remain in his house as long as he lives.
8. Before going to the police, look again in all the drawers! I’m sure your passport is there!
9. As we were waiting for the bus, it started to pour!
10. Zelda has worked as a nurse in this hospital since she moved to Dublin.

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1. A woman asked for some soup in a restaurant. After the waiter had brought her the soup, she found a fly in it. As soon as she saw it, the woman called the waiter and before she could say anything, the waiter said:” Yes , Madame, you’ve been very lucky...you’ve found a fly in your soup. Please, don’t speak too loudly, or everyone will want one!”

2. A man goes to the doctor and says, “Doctor, when I touch my body, I hurt all over. When I touch my leg, it hurts. If I touch my head, it hurts. And if I touch my chest, it hurts. And when I touch a part of my body, I have a terrible pain in my hand!” The doctor examined the man and said:”. Mr. Smith, the problem is not your body. Your finger is broken!”.
 

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1)A doctor calls his patient and says: “The check you gave me for my bill came back”.
The patient replied. “So did my cold!”.
2) A. Where do zombies go swimming?
B. In the Dead Sea!
3) Doctor: “What’s your problem?”
Patient: “I think I’m a chicken”.
Doctor: “How long has this been going on?”
Patient: “Ever since I was an egg!”

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1. By the time I’ve finished to read the novel, it had become 10:00p.m.
2. Just as my teacher walked in aisle, we studied Science for the test.
3. She’ll be sorry when you won’t pass your driving test.
4. It’s not that cold once you will put on a heavier sweater.
5. The horse galloped away as soon as it will have grown tired.
6. Rudy will talk about music until before dinner will ready.
7. Don’t leave after the 17:00. I will have an unexpected event!
8. June was running for the bus when it left.

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0. Let’s have some rest while the kids are playing at our neighbours’ house!
1. I won’t leave the room until you finish doing your homework!
2. I’ll sing this song as long as I like!
3. Don’t disturb me while I’m studying!
4. This poem will live as long as men can breathe.
5. While Melania was having a shower, I was talking to her mum in the sitting room.
6. He can work here until the end of May.

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0. On arriving at school, I realised I hadn’t brought my schoolbag!!!
1. Joshua took my hand. Then he looked at me and asked me to get married to him.
2. Julie has suffred from headaches for months. Finally she understood it was due to the fact that she couldn’t see well and she needed a new pair of glasses.
3. Peter was laying in the table. In meantime his sister was cooking some pasta.
4. I had been asking him the same questions for hours. In the end he answered me!
5. At first I thought the flat was too small for us, but whn I saw the view, I decided to rent it all the same!
6. I went to the lecture and I tried to take notes, buti t was really difficult for more. After a while I understood I wasn’t listening to a lecture about Economics but to a lecture about Physics!
7. Cecily and Theresa! Don’t do anything till I tell you!
8. The moment that I saw him, I immediately recognized him even if 20 years had passed since I last saw him.
9. You can visit us next summer and stay as long as you like because we ahve avery big house!
10. I had a dog ten years ago, Buck. He was wonderful, but then he died and I haven’t had a dog ever since.

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0. While the bride walked up the aisle the bridegroom’s eyes glistened.
1. At first Connie and Steven didn’t like other, but they were each classmate.
2. Afterwards they began to study together and then they got engaged.
3. On later Steven asked his stepbrother Liam to be his best man.
4. Some time later they decided to get married in the church where had got married Connie’s parents.
5. In the meantime Connie asked her stepsister Camille to be her bridesmaid.
6. Liam and Camille wouldn’t accept their proposal that Connie and Steven were very worried.
7. Finally the two extended families accepted saying they were happy for their relationship.
8. In the end Connie and Steven’s relatives, colleagues and close friends took part about 300 in wedding.

classmates = compagni di classe
get engaged = fidanzarsi
stepbrother = fratellastro
best man = testimone
parents = genitori
stepsister = sorellastra
bridesmaid = damigella d’onore
extended families = famiglie allargate
relationship = relazione
relatives = parenti
colleagues = colleghi
close friends = amici stretti
wedding = matrimonio

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At first my aunt Simonetta and my uncle Flaviano met at the university.
Afterwards they exchanged phone numbers an then started going out together.
Later on they got engaged and after a while they organized their married.
they got married on the eleventh of September in 1997 and about 80 people took part in wedding.
Finally they had their first daughter some years later.

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1. Just when I was about to fall asleep, the phone rang.
2. Once you know how to speak well in English, you will be my guide in London.
3. As soon as the race ended, the public began to enter the circuit to better see the prize giving ceremony.
4. Afert I finished washing the floor, I dropped a bottle full of oli and I had to wash the floor again!!!
5. Wake me up before you leave home so we can have breakfast together!
6. Yesterday was by far the best day of my life. I will remember ita s long as I live.
7. When I went to school as a child, I always met a tall and elegant lady. Then suddenly I didn’t see her anymore. Some time later, I met her again and found out that she was our principal’s wife.
8. At first Michela didn’t want to tell us where she would go for her honeymoon. Then he told us it was a very original journey. In the end she told us that she would go to Tibet… and that her boyfriend knew nothing about it.