You are learning narrative tenses combined: you will read the scene it happens in, learn 10 words and phrases, take apart the pattern behind them (narrative tenses: simple past + past continuous + past perfect), hear them in a conversation, rehearse them, and finish by saying one thing out loud to be graded.
Peter Luger Steak House, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Saturday night
I had been hearing about Peter Luger for years. Everyone said the same thing: best steak in New York, cash only, no reservations for small parties. So one Saturday, we decided to just show up.
When we arrived, the restaurant was packed. People were crowding the entrance. Waiters in white aprons were moving through the room like they had been doing this exact routine for decades — because they had. Peter Luger had been serving porterhouse since 1887.
We waited forty minutes. While we were standing near the bar, I watched a waiter carry a sizzling platter past us. The steak had been broiled at extreme heat and was still bubbling. The man at the next table had already started eating, and his face told the whole story.
Finally, we sat down. We ordered the porterhouse for two. When it arrived, the waiter carved it tableside. The meat was charred on the outside, pink in the middle. We had imagined this moment. We were sitting in a legendary Brooklyn institution. And then we took the first bite. Everything we had heard was true.