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300 Passive Voice

This movie features excellent visual effects and colors. It is one of the narrator's favorite epic movies. The first scene is well suited for teaching passive voice since the narrator uses it to describe how Leonidas became the Spartan king. The narrator is confident students will enjoy analyzing the scene's use of simple past tense passive voice.

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300 Passive Voice

This movie features excellent visual effects and colors. It is one of the narrator's favorite epic movies. The first scene is well suited for teaching passive voice since the narrator uses it to describe how Leonidas became the Spartan king. The narrator is confident students will enjoy analyzing the scene's use of simple past tense passive voice.

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This is a great movie. The visual effects and colors are unusually gripping.

It is one of my favorite epic movies ever. The first scene is excellent for passive voice practice since the narrator uses the target struture to explain Leonidas's journey to become a Spartan king. I'm sure your students will enjoy the scene and use the passive voice in the simple past tense in a contextuali ed manner. !. Talk to a partner about the following "uestions# $. In a few cultures% couples are allowed to have only one child. &o you think it's fair( )ustify your answer. *. If you could have only one child% would you still have the baby knowing he+she would be sick forever( ,xplain. -. Is it possible to train someone to be a king or a hero( )ustify your answer. .. In ancient /reece% Spartans used to reject and kill all the handicapped children( The whole population consisted of healthy% strong people. 0hat's your opinion about it( 1. 1efore you view the segment% rewrite the following sentences using passive voice. $. Spartans inspected the boy when he was born. *. Spartans would have discarded him if he were too small or misshapen. -. Spartans bapti ed him in the fire of combat. .. They taught him not to retreat or surrender. 2. They taught him that death in the battlefield was the greatest glory. 3. Spartans took him from his mother and plunged him into a world of violence. 4. They called it the agoge. 5. 6od and lash punished the boy. 7. They taught the boy to show no pain or mercy 8. 0atch the movie segment and check your answers.

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