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Grammar
Defining relative clauses: where, which, who, whose, that
1 Riordina le parole per formare frasi. Prepositions in relative clauses
4 Completa le frasi con le espressioni date e pronomi relativi
shop is clothes where gets Sally her all this the
appropriati.
This is the shop where Sally gets all her clothes.
1 whose girl she’s brother really is good-looking the you asked me for I buy all my clothes at
She’s . the cat usually sleeps on I wrote about

2 that’s hairdryer use I dry the to hair my which my grandparents came from

my uncle lives in
That’s .
my neighbour drives to work in
3 last film is Gravity the saw that we night
This is the film that I wrote about for our cinema
Gravity .
project last week.
4 the boy in who class my ghost has a is seen he
1 This is a photo of the beautiful village in Sri
He .
Lanka .
5 place where Gianna knows food we Italian eat can
2 The house is really
a great
old.
Gianna .
3 That’s the strange car .
6 invented person is who telephone the Meucci the
4 Here is the information .
Meucci .
5 This is the chair .
2 Completa i mini-dialoghi con where, which, who o whose.
6 That’s the shop .
1 Rob This is a photo of my penfriend who I
Non-defining vs defining relative clauses
stayed with in Exeter.
5 Unisci le due frasi per formare frasi relative determinative o
Helen And is that the house you
stayed? relative esplicative.
Rob No, that’s a place we Danny wrote an amazing ghost story and it won a
visited one day. It’s a stately home, and competition.
it’s haunted by a ghost Danny wrote an amazing ghost story, which won a
head is missing!
competition.
2 Toby What happened to the tablet
1 He’s the French boy. He’s in my class.
you showed me last week?
He’s the French boy .
This one’s different.
2 We went to Barcelona last summer. It’s a
Jim It didn’t work very well so we took it
beautiful city.
back to the shop Dad
bought it. The woman sold We went to Barcelona, ,
it to him was really nice. She apologised, last summer.
and then she gave us a tablet 3 I bought a DVD. It only cost £2.
is much better – for the same price! I bought a DVD .

Omitting the relative pronoun 4 Taha is my best friend, and his parents come

3 Il pronome relativo può essere omesso in tre di queste frasi. from Jordan.

Segnale e riscrivile senza il pronome relativo. Taha, ,

is my best friend.
That is the book that I read. 
5 My best friend was born in that house.
That is the book I read.
That’s the house .
1 I bought a car that uses less petrol.
6 Kelly lives in my street and she’s the lead singer
of a band.
2 He’s the boy whose brother’s in my class.
Kelly, ,
is the lead singer of a band.
3 The ghost that I saw was very old.
Modal verbs: must, may/might, could/can’t: speculating
4 The joke which he told wasn’t very funny. 6 Scegli l’alternativa corretta per completare le frasi.
UFOs can’t/may exist because a lot of people have
5 The man that she married was Italian.

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seen strange things in the sky. mug kettle thermometer knife toothbrush
1 Tom usually goes to bed late. He might/may not spoon saucepan chopping board adaptor
be asleep.
This spoon is too small to eat soup with.
2 Crop circles must/could be a hoax because I
1 Please clean the after you’ve cut
don’t believe in aliens!
the vegetables on it.
3 Lucy says her aunt’s got psychic powers, but she
2 Let’s put on the and make a cup of
can’t/could be joking.
tea.
4 The Curse of Tutankhamun can’t/mustn’t be a
3 Be careful of that – it’s very sharp.
very good film – there’s nobody famous in it.
4 You need a bigger to cook the
5 There’s a strange man in that photo, but you
spaghetti.
can’t see him very clearly. He could/can’t be a
5 I can’t clean my teeth because I can’t find
ghost.
my .
6 I don’t believe a UFO landed in your garden! You
6 Gina needs to buy a new before
can’t/must be crazy!
she goes on holiday to the UK.
7 It can’t/may be raining outside – nobody’s
7 Greg made a big of hot chocolate,
carrying an umbrella.
then he sat down to finish his homework.
8 I don’t know where your mobile is, but it
8 You’ve got a temperature of 39°C – look at
must/may be in your room.
the !
9 They are tired this morning so they might
not/will come out with us tonight.
Unexplained phenomena
9 Scegli l’alternativa corretta per completare le recensioni dei
Modal verbs: must, may/might, could/can’t + have + past
DVD.
participle speculating about the past
7 Scegli l’alternativa corretta per completare il post di un blog. Top horror DVDs this month
The Book of Fire
Aliens at our farm! Some witches/aliens make good 1hoaxes/spells
Last month a crop circle appeared one night to help people, and some are bad to hurt people.
at our farm. At first I laughed at it and There are 2curses/practical jokes in ancient
thought ‘aliens must have/can’t have books that can burn your house - or kill you in your
done that!’ But a woman who lives near us sleep! But sixteen-year-old Toby and his girlfriend
saw some really strange lights in the sky Clara don’t believe any of these things – until they
that night, so it 1might have/may not find The Book of Fire.
have been a practical joke! The lights that
she saw 2could have/can’t have been Starfall
planes because they moved really fast –
and they didn’t make any noise. It's a When a 3hoax/crop circle appears in a field in
shame I didn't see them – I 3could Kansas, local people laugh and make jokes about
have/must have filmed them with my
4
aliens/witches coming to their town. But then a
phone. It 4can’t have/must have been
5
UFO/poltergeist crashes in a field, and nobody is
amazing to watch them, too! laughing any more.

So now I think that aliens really 5may

have/can’t have made the crop circle Emily’s Eye
behind our house. After all, there are At an old 6haunted house/hoax in Wales, things
billions and billions of stars out there, and begin to move around Emily’s bedroom. Is there a
alien life certainly 6can’t have/could have 7
alien/poltergeist in the house or does six-year-
developed somewhere. Perhaps aliens old Emily have 8psychic powers/practical jokes?
7
might have/must have come to our
village from a star billions of kilometres

Vocabulary
Household objects
8 Completa le frasi con le parole per gli oggetti domestici.

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