Turn these newspapers headlines into radio news headlines. (Informal, spoken form.)
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- We use the infinitive after modal verbs and a number of other verbs. The passive infinitive is to be done / to have done.
- Ex. 1. Find the passive verbs in this text. What tenses are they?
- Ex. 2. Underline all the passives.
- Ex.4. Put the sentences into the Passive voice.
- Ex. 9. Put the verbs in brackets into the Present Simple or Present Progressive Passive.
- Ex. 13. Complete the text with expressions given below.
- Ex. 14. Open the brackets, using the correct form in the Passive.
- Ex. 18. Put the verbs in brackets into a suitable tense in the passive.
- Ex. 20. Rewrite these sentences in the Passive.
- Ex 22. Put the verb in brackets into the Past Simple, the Past Continuous and the Past Perfect in the Active or in the Passive Voice.
- Ex. 26. Put the sentences into the passive voice.
- Passive verbs with prepositional objects
- Ex. 31. Put the sentence with a verb + preposition/adverb combination into the passive.
- Ex. 33. Express in the passive the second of each of the following pairs of sentences. Do not mention the active subjects. The first two sentences are done for you.
- Ex. 38. Rewrite these verbs as passives, keeping them in the same tense, and removing they, we, someone, etc.
- Ex. 40. Rewrite the sentences, putting the underlined verbs into the Passive. Make any other changes necessary.
- Ex. 42. Read this information about what happened to the Watsons.
- Passive structures of the verbs
- Ex. 46. Change the structure using the Passive Voice.
- Ex. 49. Most of the sentences contain one mistake. Correct it of write “right”.
- Ex. 52. Use passive or active, in any appropriate tense, for the verbs in brackets.
- Ex. 53. Supply the required passive forms of the verbs in brackets.
- Ex. 54. Use the required passive forms.
- Ex. 55. Use the required active or passive tense forms.
- Ex. 56. Translate into English.
- Ex. 58. Translate into English.
- Ex. 62. Choose the best way of continuing after each sentence.
- A) Rewrite these instructions, using simple commands instead of the passive.
- Complete these sentences using a passive construction. Only use by if it’s natural to do so.
- Turn these newspapers headlines into radio news headlines. (Informal, spoken form.)
- Ex. 66. Practice saying these sentences and answer the questions.
- Ex. 68. You are telling a friend some news. Use the notes and write each sentence in the Present Perfect, active (has done) or passive (has been done).
- Group work. Match the two columns. Then make a sentence for each, using the passive. Look at the example first.
- The formation of the passive voice………………. . . 1
- Progressive forms……………………………………. . 11
- AIDS kills Freddie's 2 lovers. Star's dead lovers
- Phone call of terror. Gay life ended 7-year affair
4. Turn these newspapers headlines into radio news headlines. (Informal, spoken form.)
· “Highjacked jet blown up”
· “Cure for cancer at last”
· “7 pickets arrested in miners’ strike”
· “40 killed in train crash in Sweden”
5. Complete each sentence using a passive construction.
1. — I’m glad that horrible man (catch).
— Yes, I’m sure he (send) to prison.
2. — When I saw him he (question) by the police.
— I think he (give) a very long sentence.
3. — The postman told me he (bite) by a dog.
— (Take) to hospital?
4. — I hear that a lot of Irish jokes (include) in tonight’s show.
— Oh, no! I hate it when insulting jokes (tell) about other nationalities.
6. Choose the best form.
On Tuesday August 11th 1911 a young artist, Louis Beraud, (1) at the Louvre in Paris to complete a painting of the Salon Carre. This was the room where the world’s famous paintings, the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, was on display. To his surprise, there was an empty space where the painting (2). A guard told him it probably (3). An hour later several visitors had complained about the missing picture, and so the guard went enquire about it. At eleven o’clock the museum authorities realised that the painting (4). The police (5), but it was 3 p.m. before the exits (6). The newspapers (7) at 4 p.m., and the next day headlines all over the world announced the theft.
Actually the Leonardo (8) for more than 24 hours before anyone noticed it was missing.
1.A)has arrived
B)arrived
C)had been arrived
5.A)had been called
B)were called
C)was called
2.A)should be
B)is
C)should have been
6.A)were locked
B)locked
C)had been locked
3.A)being photographed
B)was being photographed
C)was photographed
7.A)have been told
B)has been told
C)were told
4.A)had been stolen
B)was stolen
C)had stolen
8.A)had gone
B)had been gone
C)was gone
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