Exercises page 469

1) Sottolinea l’alternativa corretta.

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 will have a swim as soon as the water gets warmer.
4. Lucia has had that car since 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 once he completely recovers from his backache.

2) Completa le frasi con I connettivi di tempo.

1. I’ll wait for you until the next 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 the 15^th. We will go on holiday on the 16^th.
5. Once I have passed my driving test, I will go to school by car.
6. I love staying on the beach till 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.

3) Completa le barzellette con un connettivo di tempo appropriato.

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, Madam, you have been very lucky… you have found a fly in your soup. Please don’t speak too loudly, or everyone will want one!’

A man goes to the doctor and says; ‘Doctor, when I touch my body, I hurt all over. As I touch my leg, it hurts. If I touch my head, it hurts. And if I touch my chest, it hurts. And once 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!’

4) Trova altre tre barzellette inglesi da raccontare in classe.

1. A couple makes a wishing well. The husband leans over, makes a wish and throws a penny. The wife also decides to make a wish. The husband is amazed for a moment then laughs and says: "It really works!".
2. Why do Siamese twins go on vacation to England? So, the other can drive.
3. To prove that women speak louder than men, a husband shows his wife a study that says men use around 15,000 words a day, compared with 30,000 for women. The wife thinks for a moment then tells her husband that women speak twice as much as men because they must always repeat what they say. Appearing puzzled, he says, "What?"

5) Completa liberamente le seguenti frasi.

1. By the time I’ve finished, you have already gone to bed.
2. Just as my teacher walked in, I ask her a question about birds.
3. She will be sorry when she will discover about his mistake.
4. It’s not that cold once you wear three jackets.
5. The horse galloped away as soon as he saw that little mouse.
6. Rudy will talk about music until you stop listening it with the MP3 player.
7. Doesn’t leave after I betray you with Janna.
8. June was running for the bus when it leaves the station.

Exercises pages 470- 471

6) Completa le seguenti frasi con until, as long as, while.

1. I won’t leave the room until you finish doing 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.

7) Sottolinea l’alternativa corretta

1. Then
2. Finally
3. In the meantime
4. In the end
5. At first
6. After a while
7. Till
8. The moment that – since
9. As long as
10. Ever since

8) Riordina le parole

At first Connie and Steven were classmates but they didn’t like each other.

Afterwards they began to study together and then they got engaged.

Later on, Steven asked his stepbrother Liam to be his best man.

Some time later they decided to get married in the church where Connie’s parent had got married.

In the meantime, Connie asked her stepsister to be her bridesmaid.

Connie and Steven were very worried that Liam and Camille wouldn’t accept their proposal.

Finally, the two extended family accepted saying they were happy for their relationship.

In the end about 300 relatives, colleagues, and close friends, took part in Connie and Steven’s wedding.

9) Scrivi un breve testo sulla storia d’amore di due tuoi familiari.

My grandfather and my grandmother got married in 1969. They decided to meet in Grado, to go out for that evening. After the dinner they went in front of the sea sitting on a bench. Then my grandpa asked her to get married and my grandmother said yes.

10) Traduci le frasi.

Meanwhile I was falling asleep, the phone rang.

Once you will be able to speak English well, you will be my guide in London.

As soon as the race finished, the audience started to enter in the circuit to see the prize giving ceremony.

After I finished washing the floor, I dropped a bottle full of oil and I had to wash the floor again!!!

Wake me up before you go out, so we can do breakfast together.

Yesterday was surely the best day in my life. I will remind it as long as I will live!

When I went to school when I was child, I always met a tall and elegant woman. Afterwards, suddenly, I didn’t see her. Some time later, I met her again and I discovered she was our dean’s wife.

At first Michela didn’t want to tell us where she would go for her honey moon. Later she told it was a very original journey. Finally she said that she would go to Tibet….and that her boyfriend didn’t know nothing.

Exercises pages 472-473

11) Completa le frasi.

1. Because
2. Given
3. Having
4. Owing to
5. Due to
6. Because of

12) Completa la seconda frase in modo che abbia lo stesso significato della prima con un massimo di tre parole.

1. In view of
2. Due to
3. Of the fact
4. Given his scare
5. Because it was
6. Owing to

13) Collega le frasi della prima e della terza colonna usando i connettivi nella colonna centrale.

0-     Because – d

1-     Owing to – c

2-     Because of – h

3-     Due to – b

4-     Because of – i

5-     Due to – f

6-     Because – e

7-     Owing to – g

8-     Because of – a

14) Dite a turno una frase che l’altro dovrà completare.

A I didn’t eat the cake                     B Because I don’t like desserts-

B I always drink milk at breakfast     A Due to his proteins.

15) Traduci le frasi.

1. Yesterday, I missed the bus because I wake up too late.
2. As the hotel was very beautiful, we decided to spend there other two days.
3. Since everyone said that house was full of ghosts, none wanted to buy it.
4. Given your love for swimming, you should build a beautiful pool in your garden.
5. I couldn’t send any mail because of a black out which lasted all yesterday afternoon.
6. Given that I had lost my credit card, I went to the bank to block it.
7. The Michele’s victory is due to the fact that he has been practicing for many months.
8. Because of the earthquake, many people saw their houses fall down.

16) Ripensa alle strutture fin qui sudiate.

1. No, “finché” in inglese non è seguito da negazione. Un’altra differenza è che in inglese si mette il verbo al presente, mentre in italiano si usa il futuro
2. Benedetta deve usare “in case”, poiché significa “eventualmente”. “Eventually” invece è un false friend che ha il significato di “infine”.
3. Si può usare “because of”, “owing to” o “due to”, dato che tutti e tre hanno il significato di “a causa di”.

Exercises page 475

17) Sottolinea l’alternativa corretta.

1. So
2. Such a lot
3. Therefore
4. So much
5. So few
6. So

18) Completa le frasi con le parole collegate all’ambiente.

1. Ice cap – therefore
2. Such a lot of – air
3. Such an – heatwaves
4. So many – tornadoes
5. So – tsunami
6. As a consequence - erupting

19) Componi le frasi.

1. Cloud was alone for three hours so nobody controls him.
2. He destroyed as a result three woollen cushions on the sofa.
3. There were so many objects all around the room that you couldn't walk into it.
4. Cloud played so much with the potting compost that the floor was all dirty.
5. He opened so many drawers that all the knives and forks were on the floor.
6. All the house was such in a mess that Jackie almost fainted.
7. Jackie was very tidy woman therefore she was furious and she began shouting.
8. When Jackie begun shouting so Cloud was frightened that it pees on the carpet!

20) Descrivi ciò che vedi.

There wasn’t anything on the desk therefore all is on the floor and I can’t walk.

Everything is scratched so I have to repair every surface.

21) Traduci le frasi.

1. I’m very busy tomorrow, so tomorrow I can’t go to the sea.
2. The thunder was so strong that we thought it was a bomb.
3. There are so many services in this city that I can decide to transfer here.
4. The Parliament has just approved a law about fur. Accordingly, only the synthetic one can be produced and sold.
5. The students had studied too less. As a result, only some of them passed the test.
6. Alexia didn’t understand that we would go in a very elegant restaurant. Therefore she was wearing a pair of jeans and a t-shirt.