Year 3: Passive, linking words, trappen van vergelijking

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 3

Welcome back third years!

Finally, at last, the last grammar recap lesson:

The passive, linking words, trappen van vergelijking

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Which structures did we cover last time?

How do we construct them?

Today's class

Subject: The passive, linking words, trappen van vergelijking

Overview: 

- Introduction

- Theory

-Evaluation 

Today's aims

At the end of this class:

• You will know how to make sentences from active to passive
  
• You will know the most common linking words and when to use them
  
• You will know how to apply the correct use of the "trappen van vergelijking"
  

Theory

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The passive

(is done, was done)

When to use it?

• When we want to tell an action happened to someone/ something by someone/ something else.
  
• Who or want causes the action is often unknown or unimportant. If it is important, we use by.

Active: "My granddad built this house in 1981"
Passive: "This house ....... in 1981"

The passive

How to use it?

be (is/was/ etc.) + past participle (3rd row)

(The past participle often end in -ed, but many important verbs are irregular)

The passive

1. Active: "Somebody cleans this room every week"

Passive: "This room ..... every day"

2. Active: "Somebody cleaned this room yesterday"

Passive: "This room ..... yesterday"

3. Active: "The room looks nice! Somebody has cleaned it."

Passive:" The room looks nice! It .... been ......"

4. Active: "Somebody is cleaning the room right now"

Passive: "The room .... being.... right now"

Linking words

When to use them?

Linking words connect two parts of a sentence/two sentences/ two paragraphs/ two ideas.

Linking words

Introduction (Introductie): First/ first of all

Addition (Toevoeging): Second/ and/ then/ next/ also/ too/ like/ actually

Opposition & Contradiction (Het tegenovergestelde): However/ while/ instead of/ but

Condition (Voorwaarde): If/ unless/ as long as

Cause (Oorzaak): Because (of)/ due to (the fact)/ since/ this is (the reason) why

Conclusion (Conclusie): So/ finally/ that is why/ in conclusion/overall 

Linking words

1. Introduction: "......, I would like to welcome you all."

2. Addition: "I feel sick, .... I can throw up any second."

3. Addition: "You should put your seatbelt on first, ..... start the car."

4. Opposition: "I like frozen yoghurt, ..... I love McFlurry's."

5. Opposition: " ...... you were enjoying your holiday, I was constantly working."

6. Condition: ".... you eat your veggies, we'll go for ice cream afterwards."

7. Condition: "I won't do it ...... you do it."

8. Cause: ".... the rain, the game had been cancelled."

9. Cause: "Why do you keep breaking stuff?! ...... we can't have nice things!"

10. Conclusion: "And ....; the last sentence."

Trappen van vergelijking

When to use them?

• To compare one thing to another
  
• To state that something is at it's extreme

Stellende trap - Vergrotende trap - Overtreffende trap

Trappen van vergelijking

How to use them?

• 1 syllable: -er and -est
  
• 2 syllables, when a word ends in -y: -er and -es
• 2 syllables, in most other cases: more and most 
• 3 syllables: more and most 
  

Trappen van vergelijking

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Additional facts

Evaluation

• Which topics did we cover today?
  
• Which of the topics do you struggle with most?