Active vs passive voice 3HV

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Active vs passive voice

Today's planning:

1. Grammar explanation
2. Check-in questions

3. Practice!

Passive voice

When to use the passive voice?

1. Wanneer niet bekend is wie de actie heeft gedaan;

2. Het maakt niet uit wie de actie heeft gedaan.

The house is painted.

My room is cleaned.

Active vs passive voice

What's the difference?

Active voice: focus ligt op wie de actie doet.

I do the dishes.

Passive voice: focus ligt op de actie.

The dishes are done (by me).

Active → passive

I clean my room → my room is cleaned (by me)

She walked the dog → The dog was walked (by her)

The police are doing an investigation → the investigation is being done (by the police)

Active → passive

I clean my room → my room is cleaned (by me)

She walked the dog → The dog was walked (by her)

The police are doing an investigation → the investigation is being done (by the police)

Active → passive

How to use the passive voice?

1. Kijk in welke tijd de active zin staat. (herkennen tijden)

2. Het lijdend voorwerp van de (actieve) zin wordt het onderwerp (van de passieve zin).

3. Je zet (in dezelfde tijd als de actieve zin!) het werkwoord 'to be' neer + de past participle.

I clean my room → my room is cleaned (by me)

Active → passive

3. Je zet het werkwoord 'to be' neer in de juiste tijd:

Present simple: am/is/are
Past simple: was/were
present continuous: am being/ is being/ are being
past continuous: was being / were being
present perfect: have been / has been
past perfect: had been

The tenses

Present simple:

I do the dishes. → The dishes are done (by me).

I help the neighbour. → The neighbour is helped.

Past simple:

She repainted her room. → Her room was repainted (by her).

She read the articles. → The articles were read.

The tenses

Present continuous:

I am throwing a party. → The party is being thrown (by me).

He is doing groceries. → The groceries are being done.

Past continuous:

We were telling the story. → The story was being told (by us).

I was making a painting. → The painting was being made.

The tenses

Present perfect:

They have finished the story. → The story has been finished.

She has baked a cake. → The cake has been baked (by her).

Past perfect:

We had perfected the recipe. → The recipe had been perfected.

Jim had eaten some cookies. → Some cookies had been eaten.

In welke tijd staat deze zin?
The chef was cooking the vegetables in the pan.

1. Past simple
2. Past perfect
3. Past continuous
4. Present perfect

The chef was cooking the vegetables in the pan. →
The vegetables ________ in the pan.

1. were cooking
2. were being cooked
3. had been cooked
4. had been cooking

In welke tijd staat deze zin?
He didn't ask the question.

1. past simple
2. present perfect
3. past continuous
4. present simple

He didn't ask the question.
→
The question ______ by him.

1. hadn't been asked
2. isn't being asked
3. hadn't asked
4. wasn't asked

She was locking the car door.

They had written this paper.

Carol drives in the car.

Practice!

Do exercises 51 - 55 in your workbook (page 118).

Finished? Study the irregular verbs (page 233, 234 and 235).

Or study the vocabulary words on page 124.