Cover of the textbook Performer B1, Vol. 1

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 6 - Culture and Competences for the textbook Performer B1, Vol. 1 with authors Marina Spiazzi, Marina Tavella e Margaret Layton from Zanichelli

Question

As you read the story, underline past irregular verbs.

Answer

  • Every afternoon, when coming back from school, the children went to play in the Giant's garden.
  • The birds sang so sweetly that the children stopped their games to listen to them.
  • One day when the Giant came back to his castle from a visit of seven years to a friend of his, the Cornish ogre, he saw the children playing in the garden.
  • "What are you doing here?' he cried in a very gruff voice, and the children ran away.
  • 'My own garden is my own garden,' said the Giant; 'no one can play in it. So he built a high wall all round it, and put up a notice-board'.
  • The poor children played on the road, but it was dusty and full of stones, and they did not like it.
  • They walked round the high wall when their lessons were over, and talked about the beautiful garden inside.
  • Then the Spring came, but in the garden of the Selfish Giant it was still Winter.
  • The Snow covered up the grass with her white cloak, and the Frost painted all the trees silver.
  • 'We can live here all the year round' they cried.
  • So the Hail came. Every day for three hours he rattled on the roof of the castle till he broke most of the slates, and then he ran round and round the garden as fast as he could go.
  • 'He is too selfish,' she said.
  • One morning the Giant heard some lovely music.
  • The little boy was so small that he could not reach up to the tree, and he cried bitterly.
  • The Giant's heart melted. 'How selfish I was!' he said.
  • The other children ran back, and the garden became Winter again.
  • And the tree blossomed at once, and the birds came and sang on it.
  • The children came to the Giant to say good-bye.
  • The Giant grew very old and weak. He could not play anymore, so he sat in a huge armchair, and watched the children at their games, and admired his garden.
  • Suddenly he rubbed his eyes in wonder.
  • But when he came quite close to the child, his face became red with anger.
  • "Tell me, that I can take my big sword" and kill him.'
  • The child smiled on the Giant, and said to him, 'You let me play once in your garden, today you will come with me to my garden, which is Paradise.
  • And when the children ran in that afternoon, they found the Giant lying dead under the tree, all covered with white blossoms.

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