Worksheet Answer Key Level 1 Hotel Casanova
Sue Leather
Summary Dino Bracco is a 21-year-old from Roccella Roccella in the south of Italy working as a receptionist at the Hotel Grand on the Lido in Venice. Venice. He has definite plans for his future: he wants to marry when he is 26 and have his own hotel when he is 30. However, all his plans change in April when the beautiful, rich Carla Carla Maretti comes to stay at the the hotel. They are attracted to each other other,, and Carla seduces the willing Dino. She then returns retur ns to Rome, but a few days later phones Dino and suggests they get married and that she buys him the hotel of his dreams. Dino agrees, although he realises that it will change his original plans. Carla and Dino marry marr y in June, and two months later she buys him Hotel Casanova, and he starts to work hard. However, Dino soon finds that Carla is reluctant to let him out of her sight. She is jealous and possessive.. When Dino says he needs a break from possessive the hotel, Carla tells him that she killed her husband to get his money money,, and that is how she bought the hotel. She says she made it look like an accident. She tells Dino that if he leaves she will tell the police that they planned it together. Dino is shocked – he knew nothing about her life. He is also very frightened.
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The next day he reads about the ‘accident’ on the internet. Later in the day he interviews people for jobs at the hotel. Among Among them is his ex-colleague ex-colleague and friend from his home village of Roccella, Maria Luca. Luca. They are very happy to see each other, he gives her a position in charge of the other staff, and they fall in love.. Carla sees what is happening and threatens to kill love Dino, too. So Dino and Maria escape together. Dino tells Maria the story as they ride over to Venice by boat. But Carla Carla is after them, planning planning to kill them. However, her own boat is hit by a fireboat, and she is drowned. The story ends with Dino declaring eter nal love to Maria, unaware of Carla’s death nearby.
Before reading 1. It happens in Venice. 2. Dino is a young young man who works works at a hotel in Venice; Carla is a woman who comes to the hotel. 3. Student’s own answers (Dino is from Roccella Roccella;; Carla lives in Rome).
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Worksheet Answer Key Level 1 Hotel Casanova
Sue Leather
Check your reading Chapter 5
Chapter 1 1. a 3, b 4, c 2, d 1 2. a Giovanni Tardelli, b Dino’s mother, c Dino’s friends, d Dino, e Maria Luca 3. Dino is in his small room at the hotel. He is reading his little black book where he writes about the day and his plans for the future. 4. 20 April is his 21st birthday. 21 April is when he meets Carla Maretti. 5. He’s going to meet the woman he wants to marry. Chapter 2 1. She has long dark hair (page 8); she’s beautiful and has brown eyes (page 9); she’s very slim and is wearing a beautiful and very expensive blue jacket (page 10). 2. his voice 3. a sandwich, a cup of coffee, some drinks 4. To have his own hotel (Hotel Casanova), with his name over the door. 5. c, a, e, d, b 6. He’s in love at 21, not at 26. Chapter 3 1. Rome 2. d, a, c, b 3. Vaporetto (a kind of water bus), gondola, motor boat. They often have crashes because there are lots of boats in Venice. 4. Getting married and buying a hotel for him.
1. He read about him in La Repubblica on the internet. 2. Because she wants a job at Hotel Casanova. 3. pretty, young, a good waitress, intelligent, sweet, kind 4. Dino and Maria are leaving the hotel and Carla is watching. 5. a Dino, b Maria, c Dino and Maria, d Dino, e Carla, f Dino, g Dino and Maria Chapter 6 1. a, d, b, c 2. a Dino about Carla, b Dino about himself and Maria, c Carla about Dino, d Carla about Dino and Maria, e Dino about Maria 3. A fireboat crashes into her boat, and she dies (drowns) in the Grand Canal.
After reading 1. Page 9 – they see each other and are interested. Page 18 – they are happy and moving into Hotel Casanova. Page 20 – Dino is frightened of Carla as she tells him about killing her husband. Page 26 – Carla is angry as she watches Dino and Maria leaving. 2–10. Student’s own answers.
Chapter 4 1. 1 c, 2 d, 3 b, 4 a 2. a T, b F, c F, d T, e F, f T, g T 3. Student’s own answers.
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