Act-and-wait concept is utilized to design a coupling law for anticipating synchronization of chaotic systems. The time-delay coupling term in this algorithm is periodically switched on and off such that the phase space of the whole system remains finitedimensional despite the presence of the delay. Consequently, the stability of the anticipated synchronization manifold is easily achieved, since it is definite by a finite number of Lyapunov exponents. We show that the stable synchronization regime with considerably large anticipation time can be attained even for single-input single-output systems. The results are demonstrated with the Rössler, Chua and Lorenz chaotic systems.