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?
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2. Who had set the table?
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3. What had my aunt made for thanksgiving dinner?
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4. What had we done when the power went out?
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5. Had the turkey been cooked before the power came back?
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6: how many hours had we waited when the power came back?
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FILL IN THE BLANKS:
7. My brother and I had ________________ the vegetables for dinner.
8. Everyone had _______________ to make the meal a success.
CHANGE THE FOLLOWING VERBS INTO THEIR PARTICIPLE FORM
Be keep
Begin make
Come say
Drink sleep
Fly sweep
Go take

GRAMMAR

HOW TO USE PAST PERFECT

POSITIVE NEGATIVE
I I
You You
He He
She ‘d seen the play before She hadn’t seen the play before
It It
We We
They They
Contractions: I’d=I had I hadn’t = I had not.
QUESTION YES NO
I I I
You You You
He He He
Had She seen it before? Yes, She had No, She hadn’t
It It It
We We We
They They They

Use the past perfect when you are already talking about the past, and want to talk an earlier
past action.
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