You will learn how to:

 To talk about events in the past

 To talk about food.
GUIDE NUMBER 4
WHAT A FOOD
READING
Thanksgiving Dinner…

Last Thanksgiving my parents had a large family dinner at their house. Getting ready for Thanksgiving dinner
takes a lot of work.
The day started well and by late afternoon we had completed most of the work. Everyone had helped to make
the meal a success. We had put the turkey in the oven earlier that day so the house was starting to smell like
roast turkey. The grandchildren had finished setting the table for Thanksgiving dinner. My aunt had made two
pies for dessert, a pumpkin pie. My brother and I had peeled the carrots and the potatoes. We had just turned
on the stove to start cooking the vegetables when the power went out¡ the oven stopped working¡ we couldn
´t cook the vegetable¡ the turkey wouldn´t finish cooking¡ we waited. We talked. We went for a walk.
We had waited two hours by the time the power came back on. We had almost given up hope. Dinner was
late that night but it was a Thanksgiving dinner that we won´t forget.
ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS ACCORDING TO THE TEXT.

1. When had we completed thanksgiving dinner work?

We had completed most of the work in the afternoon

2. Who had set the table?

The grandchildren had finished setting the table

3. What had my aunt made for thanksgiving dinner?

My aunt had made two pies for dessert, a pumpkin pie

4. What had we done when the power went out?

We had just turned on the stove to start cooking the vegetables when the power went out
 5. Had the turkey been cooked before the power came back?
No, it hadn't

6. How many hours had we waited when the power came back?
We had waited two hours by the time the power came back on

FILL IN THE BLANKS:

7. My brother and I had peeled the vegetables for dinner.
8. Everyone had helped to make the meal a success.

CHANGE THE FOLLOWING VERBS INTO THEIR PARTICIPLE FORM

Be Been keep Kept
Begin Begun make Made
Come Come say Said
Drink Drunk sleep Slept
Fly Flown swee Swept
p
Go Gone take Taken
GRAMMAR

HOW TO USE PAST PERFECT

POSITI NEGATI
VE VE
I I
Y Y
o o
u u
H H
e e
She ‘d seen the play before She hadn’t seen the play before
It It
W W
e e
Th Th
ey ey
Contractions: Contractions:
I’d= I had I hadn’t = I had not.

QUESTION YES NO
I I I
y y y
o o o
u u u
h h h
e e e
Had she seen it before? Yes, she No, she hadn’t
I had I
 t I t
w t w
e w e
they e they
they
Use the past perfect when you are already talking about the past, and want to talk an earlier past action.
Example:
“When I woke up the yard was all white It had snowed during the night”
“I arrived at the coffee shop twenty minutes late, and my friends had already left.”
FIND THE FOLLOWING PARTICIPLE VERBS

awoken, become, begun, bought, broken, brought, come, done, driven, drunk,
eaten, fallen, forgotten, gone, gotten, known, let, seen.

B J Ñ G O T T E N A
N N O N D R E N O D
E E A T E T S Y K L
L E K W H T X O N E
L S L G O D A E U T
A Ñ U L R K T E R S
F O E I T T E K D N
B N V T O A N N E T
W E W G H O K K Ñ O
N T R O W G O E P L
X O I N N R U M N D
F E T E B E C O M E
E M T S O L D C R P
F O E U S L E P T B
Ñ C N C B E G U N Y