food A2-B1
Write the verbs in the past tense: preterite simple
First sentence:
Ten years before Kentucky Fried Chicken – KFC (sell)
its first chicken dinner,
the first MacDonald’s restaurant (open)
in California.
Second sentence:
Dick and Maurice McDonald (sell)
burgers for 15 cents and milk shakes for 20 cents.
Third sentence:
People (not have)
much time for lunch
so they (not want)
to wait long for their meal.
Fourth sentence:
At the first McDonald’s,
customers (can) get
their food in 15 seconds!
Fifth sentence:
This (be)
the beginning of the cheap fast food.
Sixth sentence:
In 1955 a man called Ray Kroc (become)
an agent for McDonald’s
and (start)
opening restaurants in other states.
Seventh sentence:
The McDonald brothers (not be)
very ambitious
and so Ray Kroc (buy)
the company for 2.7 million dollars in 1961.
Eighth sentence:
In the sixties he (open)
over 1,000 new restaurants and now there are more than 25,000 McDonald’s in over 120 countries.
Watermelon in a watercolour
detail of a painting by James Tissot, curtesy of Museum of L’Hermitage, Lausanne
diets-and-healthy-nutrition + linkers – copie
grilled-chicken-recipe – copie
healthy-eating-habits A2-B1 – copie
