UNIT
15
Grammar, functions and vocabulary
Phrasal verbs
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Completa il cruciverba con la traduzione inglesi dei verbi.
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2
Across
4 tornare con (2,4,2)
6 non vedere l’ora di (4,7,2)
7 alzare (4,2)
8 riuscire a dimenticare (3,4)
9 sopportare (3,2,4)
10 diventare troppo grande per (4,3,2)
13 inammorarsi di (4,3)
15 andare a prendere (qualcuno) (4,3)
16 alzarsi (3,2)
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Down
1 attaccare briga con (4,2)
2 andare via (3,4)
3 uscire con (2,3,4)
4 maturare (4,2)
5 lasciarsi (5,2,4)
7 mettere via (3,4)
10 andare d’accordo (3,2,4)
11 cadere (inciampando) (4,4)
12 ammirare (qualcuno) (4,2,2)
14 svegliarsi (4,2)
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Verb tense revision
Rob
Completa il dialogo con le domande di Steve
usando il Present simple, Present continuous,
Past simple, going to o would.
Steve And 4
her invitation?
Rob
you/reply?
when/invite/you?
what/you/want/do/now?
like/come/to the final/with me?
you/accept?
what/happen?
what/be/in the second message?
why/not/go?
Rob
She invited me this morning. She sent
me a message.
Steve
3
I’m not going because she sent me
another message.
Steve
6
Rob
She said she’d changed her mind and
was going with someone else.
Rob
Well, Emily asked me to go me to the
IYJC final with her.
Rob
Rob
?
Steve What a cheek! So 7
?
I’m really fed up!
Steve Really? 2
Yes, I did. But I’m not going now.
Steve What do you mean? Why 5
?
Steve Why? 1What’s happened?
Rob
Yes, of course I did. I replied straight
away.
I don’t know what I want to do.
Steve I know! 8
?
Rob
?
Yes, I would. I’d love to. You’re a real
friend, Steve!
?
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Grammar, functions and vocabulary
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Completa il diario di Rob con il tempo
corretto del verbo fra parentesi.
be used to, get used to, used to
5
Friday
I1’m writing (write) this diary in the garden
at home. I 2
(be) really fed up! I
3
thought everything
(go) really
well with Emily, and I 4
(get) on
well with her again then I 5
(get)
that text message. I 6
(never/be)
so upset. Who does she think she is? It was so
rude! I 7
(show) the message to
Steve and he agreed with me. Luckily Steve
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(just/ask) me to go to the IYJC
final with him so now I’m going after all.
I9
(meet) Steve in an hour so we
can go together. And if I see Emily I
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(not/talk) to her! I’m really
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sorry that this
(happen) because
I like her a lot and I 12
(want) to go
back to her. But not now…
Completa l’e-mail con la forma corretta di get
used to, be used to o used to.
Dear Marco,
I’m starting to 1
my new life at
university. It’s not like Italy! Here we have to
2
living away from home and
cooking and cleaning, whereas Italians
3
staying at home when they
study. In the UK we get a student loan from
the government to pay for our university
course. Students 4
get a grant*
to go to university, but now we have to
borrow the money and pay back the loan
when we start work. However students still
have to 5
the idea of working in
the holidays because we never have enough
money. I 6
work in a supermarket
at weekends when I was at school, so I
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studying and working at the
same time. I’m having a great time – there are
parties and concerts every week.
Texting
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UNIT 15
Scrivi questi SMS ai tuoi amici. Usa le
abbreviazioni a pagina 135 dello Student’s
Book.
Come and visit me soon,
Best wishes,
1 See you tomorrow at eight. Bye for now.
Peter
grant* = borsa di studio
cu 2moro @8. bfn
2 I’m going to be at school later.
Translation
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3 Would you like to see me tonight?
4 How are you doing?
5 Great, thanks.
6 Call me before tomorrow.
Traduci le frasi in inglese. Scrivile sul
quaderno.
1 Si è inammorato di una ragazza americana.
2 Lois va molto d’accordo con i suoi genitori.
3 Se attacca briga con me di nuovo, lo dirò al
mio professore.
4 Perché dovrei sopportare il rumore del tuo
lettore MP3?
5 Non riuscirò mai a dimenticarlo.
6 Non vediamo l’ora di andare in vacanza.
7 Ti stai abituando a vivere da solo?
8 Siamo abituati a passare il giorno di Natale
da mia nonna.
Translation
Culture
In the UK people sent 41.8 billion text messages
in 2006, which is an average of 114 million
messages every day!
Per tradurre la preposizione ‘da’ quando
significa ‘a casa di’, non si usa una semplice
preposizione ma l’espressione at ....’s house.
da mia zia = at my aunt’s house
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