How To Change From Active into Passive
These notes were written to help my students with the hard issue of English Passive Voice.There are a few words in Basque (because I teach in that language) but with a few changes I'm sure they can be...
View ArticlePassive Voice Simple Grammar Drill
This is a simple grammar drill on the Passive Voice. There are four exercises for practising different forms of the verb 'to be' and the Past Participles of a number of both regular and irregular...
View ArticleThe Passive Voice: Revision Worksheet
With these workpages you'll have the opportunity to revise the passive voice. The first page gives some explanation and the rest some practice in the form of sentences to turn into the passive voice or...
View ArticleHave Something Done (Discussion Questions)
Here are some warm-up questions for practicing the construction "have something done". Students have 5-10 minutes for asking each other the questions, then tell the class what was interesting for them...
View ArticleFinal Test
The worksheet is better used as final test after discussing grammar topics such as conditionals, reported speech and passive voice. The level is intermediate but, depending on your students' level, it...
View ArticleVideo Worksheet: How It's Made [Bubble Gum]
This worksheet will help students practice passive voice through a video that shows how bubble gum is made. My suggestion is you watch it as a class, discuss the new vocabulary and then work through...
View ArticleMemory Game with Past Participles
This is game to be played like Memory, but you need to match the base form and past participle form instead of a picture, or word. I also laminate all my cards. This vocabulary is for what I call level...
View ArticlePassive Voice Worksheet: Present and Past
This worksheet consists of three activities focusing on the use of the Present Simple Passive and the Past Simple Passive. The first two are meant to be discussed in groups and then share the...
View ArticleHow To Make Banana Chips: Passive Voice Worksheet
Hi friends!Here is a chart showing process of 'making banana chips' followed by blanks to be filled with passive verbs. Students will have to study the chart provided and to fill in the gaps with verbs...
View ArticlePowerPoint Presentation on Forming the Passive
A comprehensive Passive Voice PowerPoint Presentation that has animation and a lot of various exercises on different tenses and forms. Tenses covered are the simple present, the present perfect, the...
View ArticleIrregular Verbs Mnemonic Rhyming Groups
IRREGULAR VERBS: A REFERENCE LIST Mnemonic Rhyming Groups By: Hani Al TahrawiLearning can be fun with Mnemonics! When we were kids, rhyming songs and phrases were some of the gimmicks used to make us...
View ArticleHome Sweet Home: Speaking Lesson
This worksheet is going to be very helpful for busy teachers. It contains not only words but expressions and idioms... While composing it I referred all words to a definite topic...e.g. "the bedroom",...
View ArticlePassive Voice Worksheet
PASSIVE VOICE: The worksheet contains detailed information about formation and usage of the passive voice/ rules + example sentences of various tenses + explanation of how to transfer an active...
View ArticleHow It's Made? - Potato Chips
Do the the pre-watching activities with the students. Watch the video called "How it's made - Potato chips". While watching, students do the next set of acitivities. After watching, students do the...
View ArticleStative Passive
This is a worksheet to teach stative passive. I prepared this to show how to teach to elemenatary students stative passive in my formation grammar course and presented to other friends of formation...
View ArticlePassive Voice Intermediate Worksheet
This is a 2-page worksheet for teaching the passive voice.The first page is basically just a grammar guide with detailed explanations and example sentences and the second page has 2 different exercises...
View ArticlePassive Voice Vs Active Voice
A brief introduction into the difference between the active and the passive voice + changes in the form. this worksheet sets clearly the difference between the active and passive forms in terms of both...
View ArticlePresent Perfect Passive
Here's an exercise to drill present perfect passive (paraphrase the sentences, using present perfect passive).
View ArticlePassive To Describe Processes
This worksheet is aimed at intermediate students. It contains four texts which describe different types of processes or information: the history of ice-cream, how glass is made, how champagne is...
View ArticleActive-Passive Rephrasing
This worksheet consists of 2 exercises to revise the active and passive voice. In 1, the students have to rewrite some active sentences into passive ones and in 2 they have to do the opposite. Thanks...
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