Passive 4

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

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Roadmap

• BBC One Minute World News
• Passive part 4

Guiding questions

1. 

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The Passive 

Lesson Goal

At the end of this class you can:

- recognise the passive 

- understand the use of the passive 

- make active sentences passive and vice versa 

- construct a passive sentence using the sentence's indirect object as well

- correctly translate Dutch sentences with 'er' into English

Imporant because:

you can use the techniques in your letters and essays (Part of the 5H PTA). 

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Passive sentences in 5 steps

1. Identify the subject, verb and object (both direct and indirect)
   
2. Identify the tense by looking at the verb
   
3. Use object as new subject (singular/ plural)
   
4. Add form of 'to be' and change verb into past participle (voltooid deelwoord, 3e uit rijtje onregelmatige ww.)
   
5. Add rest of the sentence and agent if needed
   

Passive sentences in 5 steps

1. Zoek onderwerp, lijd. voorwerp, meew. voorwerp en ww. gezegde
2. In welke tijd staat het gezegde?
3. Maak van lijd./meew. voorwerp het onderwerp
4. Voeg een vorm van 'to be' toe en een voltooid deelwoord, 3e uit rijtje onregelmatige ww.
5. Zet de rest van de zin erbij, evt. met by .... 

'Er' constructions

'Er' can be translated as 'there' only when the main verb in the sentence is a form of 'to be'!!!

Do Learnbeat 1.3D 4 and 5, 1.3E 2

Imporant because:

you can use the techniques in your letters and essays (Part of the 5H PTA). 

Homework

Finish assignments

Study theory 1.3A, B, C, D and E