Week 48: Passive tense and theatre

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• mavo
• Leerjaar 3,4

Today: 

Word of the week

The passive tense

Thanksgiving

Word of the week: 

Looks like the Dutch translation 

  A verb

rise and fall irregularly

in number or amount

Fluctuate 

A verb 

rise and fall irregularly 

in number or amount.

Try to make a sentence with the word 'fluctuate'

The passive tense 

My sister got attacked by pengiuns

Penguins attacked my sister 

*Disclaimer: this is not based on true events, no sisters or penguins were harmed in the designing of this lesson*

Do you have any idea?

Active

The subject performs an action 

My boyfriend plays the guitar 

Passive 

The subject is receiving/undergoing an action

The guitar is being played by my boyfriend

Passive voice

Quite popular in news episodes 

In the passive voice it is not that important WHO did the action, the action/the result is most important 

Let's go back to my example: 

Example

My sister got attacked by pengiuns

I want to emphasize that my sister was a victim

 

Penguins attacked my sister 

I want to emphasize that it was penguins that attacked

More innocent example then

I did the laundry / the laundry was done by me

I washed the car /  the car was washed by me 

How do you form a passive sentence? 

Now you try
It may be anything

Let's practice

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/passive-exercises.html

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was celebrated last week 

What is this holiday about? 

How has is changed throughout the years? 

Mayflower

Many many years ago (1620) a ship sailed from Leiden to Plymouth America. 

On board were the so called settlers who were looking for religious freedom

The first thanksgiving

The settlers met the indigenous 

people of America and were welcomed

with open arms. 

The first thanksgiving was to celebrate

the first succesfull harvest 

What do they celebrate? 

Well, they don't really agree on that

They celebrate it anyway

Relgious freedom, good harvest, being able to stuff yourself with turkey? 

What is typical for thanksgiving?

Typical thanksgiving

Stuffed turkey

Eating until you feel as stuffed

as the turkey is 

Pumpkin pie

Plomping on te couch to watch

the parade 

The thanksgiving parade 

A tradition since 1924

A massive parade presented by a department store, broadcasted live on television

Is this the only parade? No.. 

Would you want to celebrate thanksgiving once?
Why?