LINGUA INGLESE (Mediazione Linguistica)

società umanitaria – corso di laurea in mediazione linguistica

LINGUA INGLESE I

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June 18th, 2007

Part 1. Turn the passage into the past tense. Make any alterations that may be required.

By tomorrow I must finish reading the first part of Galileo Galilei, as it has to be returned to the library. I only started it on Saturday, but I shall manage it.

Next week I have got to read Palestine at the Crossroad and the second part of Galilei. Next, I’ll finish reading the first part of the biography of The Emperor Charles V, and it's essential to work out all the diagrams and family trees that I have collected from it. After that I have three pages of foreign words from various books, which have all got to be recited, written down, and learned. Number four is that my film stars are all mixed up together and are simply gasping to be tidied up; however, as such a clearance would take several days, and I’ll be choked with work, the chaos will have to remain a chaos.

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Part 2. Choose the appropriate tenses and write the correct verb forms required.

THE LIGHT OF LIBERTY

The statue of Liberty in New York (build) ______by a French sculptor, Auguste Bartholdi, and (originally call) ______"Liberty (Enlighten) ______the World”. One of the largest statues ever (build) ______, it (present) ______by the people of France to the United States in 1884 (commemorate) ______the centenary of the American Declaration of Independence. The statue (build) ______in Paris and later (reassemble) ______in New York.

Liberty (carry) ______the torch of freedom in her right hand and (step) ______out of broken chains. In her left hand she (hold) ______a tablet with the inscription "July 4 1776" - American Independence Day.

Part 3. Now translate the passage into Italian.

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Part 4. Word-formation

a) Write at least one derivative for each of the following words:

sincere ______form ______write ______do______

lion ______holy ______friend______

b) Write at least one compound for each of the following words; you can use the words either as heads or as premodifiers of the compounds:

bag ______mouse ______friend______head______

surf ______pocket ______book ______play______

c) Dolphin is a hyponym of Fish: always true ¨ / sometimes true ¨ / false ¨

Part 5. Pronunciation

The name of the letter R and are are homophones Write at least one homophone for each letter:

B ______C ______

Q ______T ______

part 6. Write a short passage (between 40 and 70 words) about your ideal holiday.

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