- •1. What happens to a car when it is taken for a service? Look at the prompts and make sentences using the present simple passive, as in the example.
- •2. Detective Maguire is talking to a police officer about a burglary which happened early yesterday morning. In pairs, ask and answer questions using the prompts below, as in the example.
- •1. Have you dusted the house for fingerprints yet?
- •6.Rewrite the sentences in the passive,where possible.
- •7. Fill in by or with.
- •8. Rewrite the sentences in the passive.
- •9. Put theverbs in brackets into the correct passive tense.
- •1 Ellie will take the children to school.
- •11. Make a passive sentence from the words in brackets.
- •12. What happens in Luigi's restaurant before it opens for the evening? Look at the prompts and make sentences using the present simple passive, as in the example.
- •13. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct passive tense.
- •14. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct passive tense.
- •15. Rewrite the sentences in the passive, wherepossible.
- •17. Rewrite the sentences in the passive. Omit the agent where possible.
- •18. Underline the correct answer.
- •19. Choose the correct verb forms in this news report about a storm.
- •20. In each of these sentences underline who or what is doing the action (the agent).
- •21. You are telling a friend some news. Use the notes and complete the second sentence. Sometimes you need to use the active and sometimes the passive.
- •22. Write a paragraph from the notes about the first motor car. Some sentences are active and some are passive. Use a phrase with by only if it adds information.
- •23. Underline the correct answer.
- •24. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct active or passive tense.
- •25. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct active or passive tense.
- •26. Rewrite the sentences in the active.
- •27.Put the verbs in brackets into the correctpassive or active tense.
- •28. Rewrite the sentences in the passive.
- •29. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct passive tense.
- •30. Rewrite the sentences in the passive.
- •31. Choose the correct answer.
- •32. Rewrite the following passage in the passive.
- •33. Rewrite the following passage in the passive.
- •34. Rewrite the following passage in the passive.
- •35. Rewrite the following passages in the passive.
- •36. TranslateintoEnglish.
- •37. TranslateintoEnglish.
- •38. TranslateintoEnglish.
- •39. TranslateintoEnglish.
- •40. TranslateintoEnglish.
27.Put the verbs in brackets into the correctpassive or active tense.
Coffee 1) ...10 said... (say) to originate from Kaffa in Ethiopia and most species of coffeeplant 2)...........................................(find) in thetropics of the Eastern Hemisphere. Thespecies which 3).............................(think)to be the earliest coffeeplant 4)................................................(ever/cultivate) by man is
Coffeaarabica. Today it 5).....................................(grow) mostlyin Latin America.The coffee shrub 6)....................................(reach) a height of8-10 metres and 7) ............................... (have) white scented
flowers. It 8)....................................(produce) a red fruit which9)..............................(call) a cherry. The cherry 10)....................................(contain) two seeds which 11)....................................(join) together. These seeds, which 12)........................................(also/know) as beans, 13).........................................(first/roast)and then they 14)................................(grind) to make coffee.The grounds 15)...........................................(then/process) in a
variety of different ways. Sometimes they 16)..............................(filter) and sometimes they 17) ................................ (soak) inwater to make the drink which is popular with so many people. Coffee is available as grounds or as instant coffee powder and18) .............................. (drink) by one third of the world'spopulation.
28. Rewrite the sentences in the passive.
1 I made this omelette with onions and cheese.
...This omelette was made with onions and cheese,..
2 Everyone considers her to be the best student in the class.
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3 Mary wants someone to help her when she paints the house.
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4 They will have built the new bridge by the end of ft year.
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5 People ask Eve questions about her job all the time
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6 The detective had collected all the information before he handed in his report.
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7 Do people expect Jane to get a promotion this year?
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8 Frank doesn't like people telling him what to do.
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9 They washed the car with soapy water.
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10 Who will make the speech tomorrow?
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11 What did they decorate the streets with?
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29. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct passive tense.
Do you think Mars 1) …...will be colonised……... (colonise) byhumans one day? The planet Mars 2) ......................................................(know) as 'the red planet'. The soil there is red and itssurface 3)................................. (cover) in volcanoes. Until recently, it 4)..............................(believe) that nothing
could live on Mars, but during a recent space mission,tests 5) ................................... (carry out), and now it6)................................... (think) that life on Mars mightbe possible one day. During the space mission, specialequipment 7) ............................................................ (use) to examine theplanet. No form of life 8)................................ (find) yet,and so far, the planet 9)....................................(consider)unsuitable for inhabitation. However, we 10).................................................... (tell) by scientists that, by 2020, humans
11).............................(send) to Mars, and that one day,special cities12) .................................. (build) so that wecan live there. It 13) ........................... (hope) that by2150, Mars will be a wonderful place to live. If a colony14)......................(build) on Mars, would you like to livethere?