Jorge Luis Cespedes Vidal ID: 651287

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 Thanksgiving dinner work late that night.

2. Who had set the table?

The grandchildren had set the table.

3. What had my aunt made for thanksgiving dinner?

For Thanksgiving dinner, my aunt had made two pies for dessert (a pumpkin pie).

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

When the power went out, we had talked and we had gone for a walk.

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?
When the power came back, we had waited for two hours.
FILL IN THE BLANKS:
7. My brother and I had peeled the vegetables for dinner. CHANGE THE FOLLOWING VERBS INTO
8. Everyone had helped to make the meal a success. THEIR PARTICIPLE FORM
Be Been keep Kept
Use the past perfect when you are already talking about the past, Begin Begun make Made
and want to talk an earlier past action. Come Come say Said
Example: Drink Drunk sleep Slept
“When I woke up the yard was all white It had snowed during the Fly Flown sweep Swept
night” Gone
Go take Taken
“I arrived at the coffee shop twenty minutes late, and my friends
had already left.”

PAST PERFECT GRAMMAR

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: 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
FIND THE FOLLOWING PARTICIPLE
B J Ñ G O T T E N A
awoken, become, begun, N N O N D R E N O D
bought, broken, brought, E E A T E T S Y K L
come, done, driven, L E K W H T X O N E
drunk, L S L G O D A E U T
eaten, fallen, forgotten, A Ñ U L R K T E R S
gone, gotten, known, let, F O E I T T E K D N
B N V T O A N N E T
seen.
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