Grammar and Vocabulary Booster

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1 Complete The English Grammar for Italian Students Grammar and Vocabulary Booster Jon Hird 1

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3 Contents page 1 Present simple and continuous (units 1-1) House and home Past simple and continuous; used to (units 16-24) Shopping 8 3 Present perfect (units 2-32) Hobbies and leisure 10 4 Past perfect (units 33-3) Travel and transport 1 12 The future (units 36-46) Entertainment and media 14 6 Mixed tenses (units 1-46) The natural world and the environment 16 7 The passive; have/get something done (units 47-3) Technology and communications 18 8 Modal verbs (units 4-64) Sport 20 9 Questions and question tags (units 6-74) Services The ing form and the infinitive (units 7-86) Education Verb patterns: get, have, make, do, take (units 87-92) Health, medicine and exercise Prefer, rather, suggest and recommend (units 93-96) Colours Indirect speech (units ) Work and jobs Conditionals and wish (units ) Weather 32 1 Nouns (units ) Food and drink Articles (units ) Travel and transport Quantifiers (units ) House and home Pronouns, possessive adjectives and this/these (units ) Clothes and accessories Prepositions (units ) Buildings and places: town and city Phrasal verbs (units ) Work and jobs Adjectives (units ) Personal feelings, opinions and experiences Comparative and superlative adjectives (units ) Places: countryside Adverbs (units 10-16) Travel and transport Relative clauses (units ) Food and drink Cohesion (units ) Personal feelings, opinions and experiences 2 4 3

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5 Introduzione Questo volume supplementare a The Complete English Grammar fornisce a studenti dal livello A1 al B2 del Common European Framework un ulteriore possibilità per esercitarsi. Comprende attività grammaticali e lessicali aggiuntive e momenti di ripasso, di rinforzo e di esercitazione delle principali categorie lessicali. Ciascuna delle 2 unità inizia con il potenziamento delle aree lessicali chiave, per esempio House and home, Travel and transport, Education o Sport. Gli esercizi grammaticali che seguono si concentrano sugli stessi argomenti fornendo, pertanto, l opportunità di consolidare il lessico. Le strutture grammaticali affrontate sono le stesse di quelle introdotte e fatte esercitare in The Complete English Grammar, per permettere agli studenti di consultarlo facilmente in qualsiasi momento e rivedere le spiegazioni relative ai punti grammaticali. La struttura del Grammar and Vocabulary Booster procede da semplici esercizi lessicali a più complesse attività grammaticali, fino alla realizzazione di un testo personale. Ogni unità del Grammar and Vocabulary Booster termina infatti con un esercizio testuale seguito da un attività scritta. L attività scritta incoraggia gli studenti a usare la propria creatività utilizzando e rielaborando la grammatica e il lessico dell unità, ed è spesso collegata all esercizio testuale che lo precede e che può pertanto essere usato come modello. Questa metodologia aiuta dunque a potenziare le competenze grammaticali e lessicali e ad acquisire un dominio sempre maggiore nell uso della lingua inglese.

6 1 Present simple and continuous (units 1 1) House and home 1 1 Match the English words with their Italian translations. seminterrato alloggio garage arredato aria condizionata appartamento balcone bagno cucina salotto camera da letto riscaldamento sala da pranzo 0 accommodation alloggio air conditioning 9 dining room 1 apartment / flat 6 bathroom 10 living room 2 basement 7 bedroom 11 garage 3 furnished 8 central heating 12 kitchen 4 balcony 2 Where would you usually find these things? Put the words in the correct list. bed alarm clock fridge pillow duvet toilet cooker armchair sofa television kettle cushion shower wash-basin freezer bath bedroom bathroom kitchen living room bed 3 Two children are talking about some photographs. Complete the dialogue. Use the 4 Complete the text. Use the present simple and present continuous. present simple or continuous of the verbs in My family brackets. is looking (look) for a new flat. We 1 (need) three bedrooms and Mia What 0 s (be) this photograph? two bathrooms. We also 2 (want) a Alice It 1 (be) my friend kitchen, a dining room and a living room. Mia Maria s house. And that 2 (be) The apartment we 3 (live) in her mum in the photo. at the moment 4 (not / have) a What 3 (she/ do)? garage, which is not a problem because we It 4 (look) like she (not / have) a car. However, we (cook). 6 (need) a garage with the new flat Alice Yes, she 6 (be). I 7 (think) she 8 (make) dinner. Mia And what about this photo? 9 (be) this their garden? Alice Yes, it 10 (be). Mia It 11 (look) really nice. There 12 (be) some beautiful flowers. Alice Yes. Maria s parents 13 (like) gardening. And they 14 (grow) vegetables too. Maria s mum 1 (probably/ cook) vegetables from the garden in that first photo. because my older brother 7 (learn) to drive at the moment and he 8 (plan) to get a car. The flat 9 (need) to be close to school and to my parents work. I 10 (want) to continue walking to school because I 11 (think) it s good exercise. My parents usually 12 (cycle) to work for the same reason. At the moment, though, my dad 13 (work) in the city, so this month he 14 (go) to work by bus and train, which he 1 (not / like). 6 OUP copyright 2012

7 Complete the dialogues. Use the correct present tense of the verbs in the boxes. watch have got have got not / use not / work 0 A How many bedrooms have you got? B Three. Two single and one double. 1 A Where s Jack? B He s in the living room. He television. 2 A your house a garden? B Yes. But we it much. 3 A Phew! It s hot in here! B Yes, sorry. The air conditioning at the moment. 7 Complete the text. Use the verbs in the boxes. 10 Downing Street home to the Prime Minister lead not / have perform be hang Number 10 Downing Street 0 performs many functions - as meeting place, home and office. The Prime Minister 1 his own keys to Number 10 but there 2 always someone on duty to let him in. In the entrance hall portraits of every Prime Minister 3 on the walls, with the most recent ones at the top. The Grand Staircase 4 to the main rooms on the first floor. do get know live live clean go take have look contain take place 6 4 A Where you? B In Green Street. you it? A Yes. My friend in Green Street. A How I to your house? B down Davis Road and the first left. 6 A What? B I the kitchen. Read the advertisement. Complete the questions then answer them using short answers. Are you looking for accommodation in the centre of town? The new apartments in Medway Central have got everything you need: air conditioning for the summer, central heating for the winter, a garage for every flat and a garden for everyone to enjoy. A high-speed lift takes you to the top floor of this luxurious apartment block in seconds. A full-time security guard ensures that there are no security problems in this fifteen-storey apartment block. Television interviews and staff meetings usually in The White Room. The ceiling of the White Room 6 a three dimensional floral design. It 7 the four symbols of the British Isles - daffodil, rose, shamrock and thistle. 8 really closely and you will see animals such as lizards, beetles and butterflies hidden in each section. use change meet hold The name of one of the rooms in 10 Downing Street 9 according to the colour it is painted. For example, when Margaret Thatcher came to power it was the Blue Room but she changed it to green. It is now the Terracotta Room. The Pillared Room is the largest of the three main rooms. The Prime Minister 10 small parties here and 11 it when international agreements are being signed. Representatives from other countries 12 for formal state dinners in the 0 Is there a high speed lift? Yes, there is. 1 a garden? 2 have everything you need? 3 got air conditioning? 4 the lift travel slowly? a garage for every flat? 6 sixteen storeys? 7 got central heating? 8 security a problem? 8 State Dining Room. Describe your house. Talk about the rooms, what is in the rooms and what your family uses each room for. 7