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Passive Voice

This document provides instructions for a classroom activity on the passive voice. It includes examples of the passive voice in news headlines and articles about how paper is made and the importance of paper and gold. Students are asked to identify passive voice structures, complete a chart on passive voice forms, write headlines in the passive voice, and do a role play news segment paying attention to the passive voice. The goal is for students to understand and practice using the passive voice.

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Passive Voice

This document provides instructions for a classroom activity on the passive voice. It includes examples of the passive voice in news headlines and articles about how paper is made and the importance of paper and gold. Students are asked to identify passive voice structures, complete a chart on passive voice forms, write headlines in the passive voice, and do a role play news segment paying attention to the passive voice. The goal is for students to understand and practice using the passive voice.

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UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR DE SAN SIMÓN

FACULTAD DE HUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS DE LA EDUCACIÓN


CARRERA DE LINGÜÍSTICA APLICADA A LA
ENSEÑANZA DE LENGUAS

STUDENTS: Joane Jerome


Tarsis Carolina Pereira Torrez
Erica Choque Nuñez
TEACHER: Mgr. Patricia Claure Richard
SUBJECT: Taller de Recursos – LEN 124
DATE: June 28, 2022
GROUP: 2

Cochabamba – Bolivia
Level class: Intermediate
Time: 60 minutes
Students: Adolescent and adults

PASSIVE VOICE

PRE-GRAMMAR ACTIVITIES

1.- Read the articles. Discuss with your pairs the importance of “paper” and “gold”. (20
min)

A.

HOW IS PAPER MADE?

What is paper?

Paper is a dried, compressed mat


of plant fibers—nothing more,
nothing less. It's a bit like clothing
you can write on. No, really!
Clothes are made by weaving
together yarns such as cotton and
wool spun from natural fibers.
Paper is more like the fabric we
call felt, made without the
weaving stage by pressing together cellulose fibers extracted from plants and trees so they
knit and fuse to form a strong, solid, but still very flexible mat.

How is paper made?

Most paper pulp is made from trees (mainly fast-growing, evergreen conifers), though it can
also be made from bamboo, cotton, hemp, jute, and a wide range of other plant materials.
Smooth papers used for magazines or packaging often have materials such as china clay
added so they print with a more colorful, glossy finish.
Here's the basic idea: you take a plant, bash it about to release the fibers, and mix it with water
to get a soggy suspension of fibers called pulp (or stock). Then spread the pulp out on a wire
mesh so the fibers knit and bond together, squeeze the water away, dry out your pulp, and
what you've got is paper!

Paper is really easy to make by hand (try it for yourself) but people use so much of it that most
is now made by giant machines. Whichever method is used, there are essentially two stages:
getting the pulp ready and then forming it and drying it into finished sheets or rolls.

Papermaking by hand

The raw plant material is placed in a large vessel filled with water and literally beaten to a pulp
to make a thick suspension of fibers called half-stuff. This is formed into sheets of paper using
a very basic frame made of two parts: a metal mesh called a mold that sits inside a wooden
frame known as a deckle (a bit like a picture frame). The mold and deckle are dipped into the
half stuff and gently agitated so an even coating forms on top, with most of the water (and
some of the pulp) draining through. The deckle is then removed from the mold and the soggy
mat of paper is placed on a sheet of felt. This process is repeated to make a number of
interleaved sheets of paper and felt, which are then placed inside a screw-operated press and
squeezed under immense pressure to squash out virtually all the remaining water. After that,
the sheets of paper are taken out and hung up to dry.
B.
WHILE-GRAMMAR ACTIVITIES

2. Look at the highlighted verbs and find other similar structures in the articles. (5 min)

3. Complete the chart. (5 min)

THE PASSIVE VOICE

Auxiliary Verb

Present Simple Singular is made

Plural

Past Simple Singular

Plural were seen

The passive voice is formed with the auxiliary _______ and the verb in _________________.

4. Complete the sentences with the verbs in brackets. Use the present simple passive
or past simple passive. (10 min)

a) Many airplanes _______________ (fly) every day. The first airplane __________ (invent)
in 1903.

b) The Tower of Pisa ______________ (make) of white marble. It _____________ (visit) by


many tourists every year.

c) Jeans ______________ (wear) all over the world. They ____________ (create) by Levi
Strauss in 1973.

d) Tea _______________ (discover) in China in 2737 BC. It ______________ (drink) in many


countries around the world.

N.B. The passive voice is used to emphasize the action rather than the actor. We use
by if we want to mention who is the actor.
5. Make up the headlines of the following news stories using the passive voice. Go to
canva using the link and write in the highlighted part of the headline

https://www.canva.com/design/DAFE2iJ5hVQ/iE2h4beX0JwLXXf79fPIxw/edit?utm_content=
DAFE2iJ5hVQ&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton
POST-GRAMMAR ACTIVITIES

6. Make a tik tok duo with the following link. Pretend to be a news anchor. Pay attention
to the passive voice sentences.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMNrxcpnY/?k=1
ANSWER KEY

1. Free answer

2. Article A: is made, is used, are dipped, are agitated, is removed, is placed, is


repeated, are placed, are squeezed, are taken

3. are made, was seen


To be, past participle

4. a) are flown, was invented


b) was made, is visited
c) are worn, were created
d) was discovered, is drunk

5. Free answer

6. Free answer

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