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2. Ascolta, leggendo il testo, per chiarire eventuali dubbi;
3. Rispondi alle domande “true or false” sul testo;
4. Controlla con le soluzioni in fondo alla pagina.

The Canterville Ghost
by Oscar Wilde

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Chapter 3

The next morning, when the Otis family met at breakfast, they discussed the ghost at some length. The United States Minister was naturally a little annoyed to find that his present had not been accepted. “I have no wish,” he said, “to do the ghost any personal injury, and I must say that, considering the length of time he has been in the house, I don’t think it is at all polite to throw pillows at him” — a very just remark, at which, I am sorry to say, the twins burst into shouts of laughter. “Upon the other hand,” he continued, “if he really declines to use the Rising Sun Lubricator, we shall have to take his chains from him. It would be quite impossible to sleep, with such a noise going on outside the bedrooms.”

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Esercizio di ascolto e lettura

[intermediate/advanced]

1. Ascolta, anche più volte, senza leggere il testo;
2. Ascolta, leggendo il testo, per chiarire eventuali dubbi;
3. Rispondi alle domande “true or false” sul testo;
4. Controlla con le soluzioni in fondo alla pagina.

The Canterville Ghost
by Oscar Wilde

Per sapere il significato delle parole evidenziate, passaci sopra con il mouse senza cliccare.

Chapter 2

The storm raged fiercely all that night, but nothing of particular note occurred. The next morning, however, when they came down to breakfast, they found the terrible stain of blood once again on the floor. “I don’t think it can be the fault of the Paragon Detergent,” said Washington, “for I have tried it with everything. It must be the ghost.” He accordingly rubbed out the stain a second time, but the second morning it appeared again. The third morning also it was there, though the library had been locked up at night by Mr. Otis himself, and the key carried upstairs. The whole family were now quite interested; Mr. Otis began to suspect that he had been too dogmatic in his denial of the existence of ghosts, Mrs. Otis expressed her intention of joining the Psychical Society, and Washington prepared a long letter to Messrs. Myers and Podmore on the subject of the Permanence of Sanguineous Stains when connected with Crime. That night all doubts about the objective existence of phantasmata were removed for ever.

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Esercizio di ascolto e lettura

1. Ascolta, anche più volte, senza leggere il testo;
2. Ascolta, leggendo il testo, per chiarire eventuali dubbi;
3. Rispondi alle domande “true or false” sul testo;
4. Controlla con le soluzioni in fondo alla pagina.

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