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5.
Writing:
Home-
work
2.1.
Practice and Production: Students are Individually Text-
asked to expand the newspaper headlines
book
into full sentences using the passive.
Ex.17,
p.88.
Lesson materials 1
Ex.13. Read the sentences a-h and underline the passive forms, then answer questions 1-
6.
a. Customers are requested to refrain from smoking inside the store.
b. The motorist was fined $80 for illegal parking.
c. Breakfast is now being served in the Garden Room.
d. “Guernica” was painted by Picasso.
e. The theft was committed with high-tech equipment.
f. Rentals should be returned to the main garage.
g. The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell.
h. This is clearly a case of arson, because the fire was started with rags soaked in
petrol.
1. Where might you see/read the sentences above? Are they formal or informal in
style?
2. How do we form the passive?
3. Which sentence(s) contain(s) the agent? Why? How is the agent introduced?
4. Why is there no agent in the other sentences?
5. How do we form the passive of modal verbs?
6. When do we use with to introduce the agent?
Ex.14. Use the prompts to make complete passive sentences, as in the example:
1. A: my office / break into / last night.
My office was broken into last night.
B: Oh no! Did they take anything?
2. A: you / invite / to Bill’s birthday party?
B: No, I wasn’t.
3. A: Can I have my bill, please?
B: Of course, sir. Your bill / prepare / now.
4. A: the new CCTV camera / install / yet?
B: No, not yet.
5. A: Is their website information up to date?
B: Maybe … but I visited the website last week, and / it / not / update / for months.
6. A: Why is everyone lined up?
B: Our ID cards / check / the security guards.
Ex.17. Expand the newspaper headlines into full sentences using the passive, as in the
example:
Schools Try out Laptops in the Classroom. Laptops are being tried out in the classrooms
by schools.
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