Grammar 10 Passive Voice

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Grammar 10 Passive Voice

Welcome to English V2

1. Put your phone in the pouch.

What to do?

2. Have your books ready.

3. Put your stationery on your desk.

4. Quieten down and let's begin!

In this lesson

We'll learn about the passive voice

Practise using the passive voice

Get back Chapter 4 quiz

Watch the video.

Active and Passive Sentences

• Active: It is clear  who did the action.

Milan baked a cake.

• Passive: The action is emphasised, not who did it.

A cake was baked (by Milan).

Why do we use the passive voice?

• The passive voice is less personal.
  
• It's used if we don't know who or what did something, or if the doer is not important.

How?

1. Place the object at the start of the sentence

2.Use a form of to be + past participle of the main verb

is/am/are 

were/was

is/am/are/were/was being

The thief stole the jewellery. >The jewellery was stolen (by the thief).

The girl brushes the horse. >The horse is being brushed  (by the girl).

+ past participle

Summary and examples

Tense	Activ e	Passive
present simple	The cat catches the mouse. My dad drives me to school. The coach gives t hem a prize.	The mouse is caught . I am driven to school. They are given a prize.
present continuous	The cat is catching a mouse. My parents are driving me to school. The coach is giving them a prize.	A m ouse is being caught . I am being driven to school. They are being given a prize.
past simple	The cat caught a mouse. My dad drove me to school. The coach gave them a prize.	The mouse was caught . I was driven to school. The were given a prize.

Activities

1. First look Stepping Stones  at p. 90 Ex 52.
2. Then do the worksheet I gave you to practise and hand in (10 mins).
3. Next complete Stepping Stones p. 90-92, Ex 53-54.
4. Do it for homework if you don't finish. We'll check it next lesson.

I can...

• Identify the tense in a sentence.
• Understand the different between active and passive sentences.
• Change an active sentence to passive and vice versa, with present simple, present continuous and past simple.
• Write sentences in the passive voice.