Eighteen questions gapped for active or passive verb forms, and which can then be discussed by students.
E.g. How do you think your city will __________(change) over the next 10 years?
Useful for learners who are unfamiliar with non-living subjects of verbs. Includes answers
Twenty-four cards with active sentences to transform to the passive voice. These also illustrate some main reasons for using the passive: obvious / unknown / unimportant agent; personal vs impersonal tone etc.
30 cards - multiple-choice and error correction. Focuses on errors related to intransitive verbs (happen, arrive etc.) and verbs that are often used intransitively (start, open etc.)
Six short news stories (Hong Kong related). Students identify passive voice examples and say why they are used (first three examples); Gap fill from verb prompts (second three). This is quite challenging and includes examples of reduced relative clauses using passive and active participles.
Students in two teams are given seven skeleton sentences containing general knowledge facts (2 Hong Kong-related). (1) They expand the skeleton sentence to form statements. (2) They produce questions from question word prompts. (3) Ask the other team their quiz questions.
Includes present continuous, future, passive report structures and passives with modals.
Ss fill in all different forms of passive, then analyze small groups of sentences to consolidate their understanding of rules on when to use the passive + common errors - trying to use intransitive verbs to form the passive.
(Updated with answers 23-04-15)
Find someone who (16 to find). Practices present simple, present continuous, past simple, present perfect, going to and passive modals. Includes an answer sheet from the question forms.
