GRAMMAR passive
a. Make five true sentences using the words in the chart. The dishwasher is called Tipp-Ex today. Disposable nappies was invented by Marion Donovan More than 55 million nappies are protected every day Mrs Graham’s invention were invented by the bullet-proof vest. Policemen all over the world are used by an American woman.
The dishwasher was invented by an American woman. b. Look at these two sentences and answer the questions. a. An American woman invented the dishwasher. b. The dishwasher was invented by an American woman. 1. Do the sentences have the same meaning? 2. Do the sentences have the same emphasis? 3. Which sentence is in the passive?
Complete with present or past passive. The Eiffel Tower was built in 1889. (built) 1.All the singer’s clothes ______specially for her. (make) 2.The grass _______every month. (cut) 3.Australia ______by Captain Cook in 1770. (discover)
4.This morning I ______ up by the neighbor’s dog. (wake)
5.Cricket ________in the summer in the UK. (play) 6.These songs ________last year. (record) 7.Most children ________in state schools. (educate)
b. Rewrite the sentences in the passive. Shakespeare wrote Hamlet in 1603. Hamlet was written by Shakespeare in 1603. 1.Last night the police stopped us. Last night we ___________________. 2.American teenagers eat a lot of fast food. A lot of fast food______________________. 3.Toulouse-Lautrec painted At the Moulin Rouge. At the Moulin Rouge _______________. 4.The marketing manager organizes weekly meetings. Weekly meetings __________________. 5.The Italians make Fiat cars. Fiat cars _______________.
Grammar test 1. Angela _______ the job a) offered b) was offered c) offers d) was offering 2. First _______ by Popov a) was invented b) invents c) is inventing d) invent 3. Hamlet ______ by W. Shakespeare a) write b) wrote c) was written d) writes 4. Monuments _________ by architectors a) is building b) builds c) build d) was built 5. The thieves _______ by policemen a) was arrested b) wee arrested c) arrest d) arrests
3 READING & VOCABULARY Did you know…? Text-messaging was invented by the Finnish company Nokia. They wanted to help Finnish teenagers, who were very shy. They found it easier to text their friends than to phone them.
The fist bikini was _________by who Frenchmen. It was ________after Bikini Atoll, the island where the atomic bomb was first tested. The Frenchmen thought that the bikini would have a similar effect on men as a bomb exploding.
Light bulbs are _________specially to last only a certain number of hours. It would be possible to make light bulbs that lasted forever, but then the manufacturers wouldn’t make so much money.
The first Harry Potter book was ________in a cafй in Edinburgh. JK Rowling was unemployed, and she didn’t have enough money to pay for heating, so she wrote it in the cafй where it was warmer.
Although penicillin was _________by Alexander Fleming, he didn’t know how to make it into a medicine. It was first made into a medicine ten years later, by an Australian scientist Howard Florey. Spiders were _______as a cure for toothache in the 17th century. They were first made into a paste, and then put on the bad tooth.
Sherlock Holmes, the great detective was _________by writer Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes was _________on a real person- Doyle’s teacher at medical school, who was famous for saying to his students, ‘What can you tell me by just observing the patient?’
SIW Write sentences in the Passive Voice. SIWT Work book p p 64-65
Literature 1. New English file by Clive Oxenden Oxford University Press English 2. “Grammar in use” by Raymond Murphy.
Lesson-38, 39 Grammar Used to/ didn’t to
Text A famous rebel-but was he really? Mick Jogger went bask to his old school recently- for the first time since he left in 1961. He was invited to the school to open the ‘Mick Jogger Performing Arts centre’, a new music and drama department at Dartford Grammar School. Jogger said that he was ‘honored’ that the centre was named after him. But in a newspaper interview two days before he told a journalist that in fact he hated school and that he used to be a rebel. He didn’t use to do the homework-‘there was far too much’-and he was continually at war with the teachers. He used to break the rules all the time, especially rules he thought were stupid, about how to wear the school uniform and things like that. Once he even organized a mass protest against ‘appalling’ school dinners. ‘It was probably the greatest contribution to school I ever made’, he said. Although he made a good start at school, Jogger said his school work deteriorated because of’ music and girls’. However, according to one of his old school friends, musician Dick Taylor, this is not true. He says that Mick didn’t use to be a rebel at all-he was quite bright and used to work hard. He also used to do a lot of sports. When Mick Jogger left school, he had seven O-levels and two A-levels, which at that time were good qualifications- so perhaps Dick’s memory is better that Mick’s…
Test Mick Gagger left school in_________ a)1961 b)1968 c)1971 d)1982 Mick didn’t use to the a)business b) homework c) problem d)break Once he organized______ a) cooperation b)presentation c) mass problem d) party Mick didn’t to be______ a) a musician b) a rebel c) politician d) a businessman One of his old school friends was_______ a) Dick Taylor b) Dyson c) Biro d) Nick
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