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Pensi di sapere come funziona l’universo? Ecco un test per dimostrare quanto ne sai!

La cultura cockney usa un linguaggio gergale che si basa sulle rime. Prova a fare questo esercizio: In cockney rhyming slang, common words are replaced with a phrase that rhymes with the word being replaced. Try to match numbers (1-16) and letters (a-p). 1) Adam and Eve                        a) swear 2) alligator                                   b) tea 3) April […]

Ecco un esercizio di comprensione dell’articolo How the British Do Business.

Dopo aver letto l’articolo dedicato a Céline Dion, cerca la canzone della colonna sonora di Titanic (1997) e prova a completare il testo con le parole mancanti.  

at / up / to / like / ahead / into / back / down / on / for / up / forward / to / after / out 1) It’s time to forget about the past and look ____ with hope. 2) When I look ____ on my childhood I realise how lucky I […]

Come te la cavi con i nomi degli alberi? Trova l’equivalente in italiano: 1) pine                      a) sequoia 2) oak                       b) abete 3) maple                  c) larice 4) spruce/fir          d) pioppo 5) birch                   e) salice 6) elm                      f) ippocastano 7) beech                  g) faggio 8) ash tree              h) pino 9) poplar                 i) betulla 10) larch                  j) olmo 11) […]

Ecco la facile ricetta del cheesecake in stile newyorkese.

1) New Orleans is considered                                    a) had to deal with a series of calamities. 2) The French Quarter is                                            b) the country’s biggest slave market. 3) New Orleans has experienced                               c) […]

Ecco un bel crossword con le parole che compaiono nell’articolo sui Gothic Novels.