READING COMPREHENSION

1. MID II ENGLISH LEVEL
NAME_________________________________________________ Date: July 30TH
, 2016
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.
Everyonehad 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 finishedsetting the table for Thanksgiving dinner. My aunt had
made two pies for dessert, a pumpkin pie and an apple 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 vegetables! 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 uphope. Dinner was late that night but it was a Thanksgiving
dinner that we won’t forget.
Vocabulary help:
afternoon (noun) - the time of day between noon and evening
aunt (noun) - the sister of one's mother or father, or the wife of one's uncle.
complete (verb) - to finish
cook (verb) - to prepare food for eating by using heat.
dessert (noun) - sweet food that is eaten after the main part of a meal
dinner (noun) - the main meal of the day.
given up (phrasal verb) - past tense of give up - to stop or to admit defeat
grandchildren (noun) plural of grandchild - the child of one's son or daughter.
meal (noun) - when you eat, or the food that you eat at that time. Example: Lunch is a meal that we
eat in the middle of the day
oven (noun) - a piece of equipment that you cook food in. An oven has a large metal box with a
door
parent (noun) - a mother or a father.
peel (verb) - to remove the outer covering from something.
pie (noun) - a cooked dish that has a crust made of dough and a thicker layer of fruit, meat, or
something else on top of it. Sometimes it has another layer of crust on top of that.
power (noun) - energy that can do work
roast (adjective) - something that is roasted.
roast (verb) - to cook with dry heat, as in an oven.
smell (verb) - to sense something by means of the nose.
turned on (phrasal verb) - past tense of turn on - to cause something to begin. Example: Turn on
the lights if it is too dark to see.
vegetables (noun) - a plant you can eat, examples: potatoes, corn and onions
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2. MID II ENGLISH LEVEL
NAME_________________________________________________ Date: July 30TH
, 2016
Comprehension Check:
Did you understand the story? Are these sentences true?
1. The word had is used when making the past perfect verb tense. Yes or no?
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2. Use the past participle of the main verb when making the past perfect. Yes
or no?
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3. My aunt made two apple pies for dessert. Yes or no?
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4. When the power went out there was no electricity. Yes or no?
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5. The turkey was finished cooking before the power went out. Yes or no?
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Fill in the Blanks:
6. It was two _______________ before the power came back on.
7. My brother and I had _____________ the vegetables for dinner.
8. Everyone had ______________ to make the meal a success.
9. By late afternoon we ____________ completed most of the work.
10. For Thanksgiving dinner we had _____________ and vegetables and then we
had pie for _______________.
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