English for Business and Law / English for Political Studies (Advanced Level) a.y. 2019/2020 Exercise no. 1, unit 4b Please read the following passages from the websites of The Guardian, the UNWTO and The Economist, and find out which lexical / grammatical item has undergone the conversion [C] / functional shift [FS] process. Then give the translation into Italian of that item only in its own context: 1. Salvini eyes victory in central Italy after government heartache. ………………………………………………………………………………………………. q [C] q [FS] 2. A coalition led by the far-right former interior minister Matteo Salvini has swept to power in the central Italian region of Umbria, ending 50 years of leftwing rule and further shaking the resilience of the national government. ………………………………………………………………………………………………. q [C] q [FS] 3. Donatella Tesei of the League was elected president of Umbria after capturing 57% of the vote on Sunday, backed by the smaller far-right party Brothers of Italy and Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia. ………………………………………………………………………………………………. q [C] q [FS] 4. Unlike the close-knit rightwing coalition, the former rivals only campaigned together in Umbria a few days before the election. ………………………………………………………………………………………………. q [C] q [FS] 5. Salvini, who led a far-right rally in Rome on 19 October that was attended by thousands, said the government’s days were numbered, while Meloni, whose party won 10% in Umbria, said: “If I was Conte, I’d hand in my resignation faster than light.” The government will face its next test in regional elections in Calabria in December, followed by Emilia-Romagna, another leftwing stronghold, in January. ………………………………………………………………………………………………. q [C] q [FS] ………………………………………………………………………………………………. q [C] q [FS] ………………………………………………………………………………………………. q [C] q [FS] 6. The talks are aimed at forming a new industrial plan that includes production levels and a commitment to cleaning up pollution, the government said in an e-mailed statement late on Friday, released after Premier Giuseppe Conte and the finance and economic development ministers met with ArcelorMittal’s Lakshmi Mittal and Aditya Mittal in Rome. ………………………………………………………………………………………………. q [C] q [FS] ………………………………………………………………………………………………. q [C] q [FS] ………………………………………………………………………………………………. q [C] q [FS] ………………………………………………………………………………………………. q [C] q [FS] 7. But on Monday morning, in a sign the French had agreed to drop their demand for a shorter extension, a diplomatic source hinted that a three-month delay was "very © 2020 Rosati F. and F. Vaccarelli 1 DISCLAIMER: Please note that this is copyrighted material, those who access this page are permitted only to download the material for personal use. English for Business and Law / English for Political Studies (Advanced Level) a.y. 2019/2020 probable". ………………………………………………………………………………………………. q [C] q [FS] ………………………………………………………………………………………………. q [C] q [FS] ………………………………………………………………………………………………. q [C] q [FS] ………………………………………………………………………………………………. q [C] q [FS] 8. The Scottish National Party and the Liberal Democrats, who oppose Brexit, said over the weekend they could back the snap elections under certain conditions. ………………………………………………………………………………………………. q [C] q [FS] ………………………………………………………………………………………………. q [C] q [FS] ………………………………………………………………………………………………. q [C] q [FS] © 2020 Rosati F. and F. Vaccarelli 2 DISCLAIMER: Please note that this is copyrighted material, those who access this page are permitted only to download the material for personal use. .