Grammar: I remember my uncle Thomas very well.

I remember my uncle Thomas very well. My mum says I can’t because I was a little girl, only three at the time. But my memories of him are still very vivid. Uncle Thomas was a sailor. When he returned from his last trip, he brought several large __________________ with him. (BOX)

Inside there ___ bits of wood, metal, and painted cloth. (BE)

“What is it for?” I asked my uncle. He __________________ me a broad smile and said: “Have your breakfast first and then come to the backyard. (GIVE)

You __________________ everything with your own eyes.” (SEE)

When I came to the backyard, Uncle Thomas __________________ an instruction manual. (READ)

It took all his attention because the manual __________________ in Spanish, a language my uncle didn’t know very well. (WRITE)

All in all, it took __________________ a couple of weeks to assemble the object from the parts. (HE)

To all my questions he said that it was a machine that __________________ fly like a bird. I was probably the only one in the family who took his words seriously. (CAN)

They could never believe that soon we were going to see one of the __________________ airplane flights in the country. (ONE)