Grammar Exercises Passive Voice

INDEFINITE (be+III)
Present	I he, she, it we, you, they	am is are	helped	Мне помогают
Past	I, he, she, it we, you, they	was were	helped	Мне помогали
Future	I, we he, she, it, you, they	shall be will be	helped	Мне помогут

1. Write sentences from the words in brackets ( ). All the sentences are present.

1. (this room / clean / every day) This room is cleaned every day.

2. (how often / the room / clean?) How often is the room cleaned?

3. (glass / make / from sand) Glass …………………………………………………..

4. (stamps / sell / in a post office) …………………………………………………….

5. (football / play / in most countries) ………………………………………………..

6. (this machine / not / use / very often) ……………………………………………...

7. (what language / speak / in Ethiopia?) What …………………………………….?

8. (what / this machine / use / for?) …………………………………………………?

1. Write sentences from the words in brackets ( ). All the sentences are past.

1. (the room / clean / yesterday) The room was cleaned yesterday.

2. (when / the room / clean?) When was the room cleaned?

3. (this room / paint / last month) This room …………………………………………

4. (these houses / build / about 50 years ago) ………………………………………...

5. (Ann`s bicycle / steal / last week) …………………………………………………

6. (three people / injure / in the accident) …………………………………………….

7. (when / this church / build?) When ………………………………………………?

8. (when / television / invent?) ……………………………………………………...?

9. (how / the window / break?) ……………………………………………………...?

10. (anybody / injure / in the accident?) ……………………………………………...?

11. (why / the letter / send / to the wrong address?) ………………………………….?

Vocabulary and Speech Exercises

I. Fill the gaps with prepositions; read and translate the text.

There is a total … 650 judges … Great Britain, although their duties vary … the different legal systems … England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Only about 3 per cent … judges are women. The majority are upper class, white males with an average age … 60, often educated … public schools and Oxford or Cambridge University. The Lord Chancellor, the highest judge … the land, which is also the head … the House of Lords, chooses new judges … the advice …. Other judges and important barristers, but nobody knows exactly how the process works or why decisions are taken.

Judges are usually men have been barristers … at least ten years.

II. Fill the gaps with the words from the box, read and translate the text.

Undergraduates, lecture, get, pass, tuition, courses (3), degree, lectures, enter, subjects, grant, note, graduate, postgraduate, lecturers, postgraduates.

If you want to … university, you must first … examinations that most students take at the age of eighteen (called A-level). Most students take three A-levels (three examinations in three different …) and they must do well in order to … a place at university because the places are limited. At the moment, about 30 % of young adults go to university in Britain.

If you get a place at university, the … is free, and some students also receive a …as well. Most university … last three years, some … last four years, and one or two … e.g. medicine, may be even longer. During this period students can say they are doing/studying law, or doing/studying for a … in law, for example.

At schools you have teachers and lessons at university you have … and …. When a lecturer gives a …, the students listen and take …, but do not usually say much, except to ask occasional questions.

Students at university are called … while they are studying for their first degree. When you complete your first degree, you are a …. Some students then go on to do a second degree - … course. They are ….

Read and translate this text