UNIT 14

UNIT
14
Grammar, functions and vocabulary
Charities and world problems
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1
2
Completa il cruciverba.
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Across
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5
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is when people from a charity
4 A street
ask the public for money in the street.
7 Help from rich countries to poor countries.
9 Charities try to
money by organising
events like sponsored walks or discos.
10 A person who has nowhere to live and sleeps
outdoors is
.
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8
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14 The state of being very poor.
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15 Someone who has to leave their home or
country.
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16 Another word for illnesses.
17 My dad said he would
me 50p a mile
in the big charity walk on Sunday.
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Down
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1 An organisation which helps others without
making a profit.
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2 A situation in poor countries where there is
not enough food for the people.
3 People who work for charities and get no
money for their work.
5 A place where children with no parents go.
6 When a situation reaches a critical moment
.
we say that is it a
8 A long TV show for charity.
10 Amnesty International is an organisation
which defends
rights.
11 To give money to a charity.
12 A collection of signatures to protest against
something.
13 To die of hunger.
Past simple or Past simple
passive?
2
Completa il testo con il Past simple o il Past
simple passive dei verbi fra parentesi.
The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake 1
(be) a great undersea earthquake that 2
(occur) at 07:58 local time on December 26th, 2004, off
the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The earthquake
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(cause) a series of tsunamis along the
coasts of most countries on the Indian Ocean and large
numbers of people 4
(kill) and coastal
communities across South and Southeast Asia
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(flood), including parts of Indonesia,
Sri Lanka and India. A total of 186,983 6
(die), and 42,883 were missing after the catastrophe.
It was one of the worst disasters in modern history.
At first the earthquake 7
(record) as
9.0 on the Richter scale, but it was later upgraded
to 9.1–9.3. It is the second largest earthquake ever
recorded on a seismograph. Coincidentally, the tsunami
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(happen) exactly one year after the
2003 earthquake when the southern Iranian city of Bam
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(destroy) and exactly two years before
the 2006 Hengchun earthquake.
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Grammar, functions and vocabulary
Jason 7(any famous people/invite/to the
concert?)
Present perfect passive
3
Vero o falso? Correggi le frasi false usando il
Present perfect passive. Scrivile sul quaderno.
1 A colony on the moon was established in
2006.
2 On 16th May 2007 Prince Edward was made
King of England.
3 At last a cure for AIDS has been found.
4 The British government has decided to make
people drive on the right.
5 An atomic bomb was dropped on Japan in
1945.
6 Tom Cruise has recently married Madonna.
7 The euro has been adopted as the official
currency in the UK.
8 Hillary Clinton has been elected the first
woman President of the USA.
Jason 8(how much money/raise?)
?
Amy We hope about £300,000 will be raised.
Jason Well done, Amy. See you at the concert!
Reflexive or reciprocal
pronouns
5
Completa le frasi usando un pronome
riflessivo o each other.
1 He has cut
himself
Present continuous passive or
Future passive?
4 Trudy and Kate don’t like
much.
Jason McCall della rivista TeenAge intervista
Amy Sykes. Completa il dialogo usando gli
spunti e il Present continuous passive o il Future
passive.
6 I introduced
neighbours.
5 She has bought
7 They have known
long time.
Jason You’re organising a concert for charity,
aren’t you, Amy?
8 They are helping
homework.
Amy That’s right.
Jason 1(who/organise/for?) Who’s it being
organised for?
6
?
Amy It’ll be held at the Treadway Stadium.
Amy It’ll be held on
?
13th
June.
4
Jason (which bands/book?)
?
Amy Some really famous bands are being
booked. I can’t really tell you much
about them yet. It’s a secret.
Jason Sounds exciting! 5(who/concert/
sponsor/by?)
Amy Yes, it will. It’ll be shown on Channel 6
and other major TV channels.
a new bike.
to our new
for a
with their
Traduci le frasi in inglese. Scrivile sul
quaderno.
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Si telefonano ogni giorno.
Non furono invitati alla festa.
Una tigre è stata vista nel centro di Londra.
La loro zia ha regalato loro £1,000.
L’uomo è inseguito dalla polizia.
Il nuovo museo verrà aperto nel 2011.
Rachel si è svegliata molto presto stamattina.
Mi sono tagliato!
Translation
?
Amy It’s being sponsored by Channel 6.
Jason So 6(show/TV?)
at the party.
Translation
Amy It’s being organised for Amnesty
International.
Jason 3(when/hold?)
.
2 They’re getting married because they love
.
3 He’s enjoying
Jason 2(where/hold?)
?
Amy Yes, they will. We already have
confirmation from Johnny Depp and
Kate Winslet.
1 False! A colony on the moon hasn’t been
established.
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UNIT 14
?
Non sempre il ‘si’ riflessivo viene tradotto in
inglese con un pronome riflessivo. Ricorda che
molti verbi che sono riflessivi in italiano, in
inglese non lo sono.
Si è alzato.
He got up. non He got himself up.
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