Friday, February 24th 2017
WARMLY Welcome
ALL TEACHERS to our class
Teacher: Pham Thi Ngoc Thu
School: Cao Phong secondary school
PASSIVE VOICE
By the end of the lesson, you will be able to :
- revise and consolidate when to use passive voice; how to form passive voice of present simple, present perfect and past simple ;
- use passive voice to do some exercises.
Friday, February 24th 2017
PASSIVE VOICE
1. When to use passive voice
- We don’t know the doer of the action.
- The doer of the action is obvious
- The doer of the action is not important
-> The agent is unknown/ obvious/ not important.
-> To shift focus of subject. (Change active sentences into passive sentences)
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2. How to form passive voice
1. Mrs Ha is my form teacher.
2. The baby is crying.
3. We learn English three times a week.
We learn English three times a week.
We
learn
English
S
V
O
English is learned (by us) three times a week.
S
be
VII
(Present simple)
Someone has planted some trees in the park.
The boy broke the window.
(Present perfect)
(Past simple)
Some trees have been planted in the park.
has planted
some trees
broke
the window
The window was broken by the boy.
S
have
VII
been
S
be
VII
Be + VII
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Tenses
Present simple
Present perfect
Past simlpe
Active
Passive
V (s,es)
have, has + VII
Ved

is, are, am + VII
have, has + been+ VII
was, were + VII
Watch out! In passive voice, If we want to mention the agent, we use “by + O” in the sentence. It will go before adverb of time, after adverb of place.
- If the agent is “someone, people, they, he,she, it”, we can obmit “by + O”.
2. How to form passive voice
Be + VII
English is learned (by us) three times a week.
Some trees have been planted in the park .
(by someone)
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3. Practice
1.Ten new houses (build) ………………… in the town every year.
2.Residents of flooded villages (take) ………………to a safe place last night.
3. Many houses (destroy)………………….. by the storm two days ago.
4. So far many Christmas cards (send) …………………… everywhere.
5. English (speak) ………………… all over the world.
6. ………….… the letters (deliver) ………………………… yet ?.
7. Where …………... the 1988 Olympic Games (hold)…………………?
8. A lot of chocolates (sell) ……………on Valentine Day each year.
* Exercise 1. Put the right forms of the verbs in the banket using passive voice.
are built
were taken
were destroyed
have been sent
Have
been delivered
was
held
are sold
2. How to form passive voice
Be + VII
is spoken
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3. Practice
5. Americans read newspapers every day.
* Exercise 2. Rewrire sentences using passive voice.
1. The boy broke the window yesterday.
2. They grow a lot of flowers in Da Lat .
3. The strong wind has blown down many trees .
4. The storm destroyed the whole village.
5. Newspapers are read by Americians every day.
4. The whole village was destroyed by the storm.
3. Many trees have been blown down by the strong wind.
2. A lot of flowers are grown in Da Lat (by them).
1. The window was broken by the boy yesterday.
2. How to form passive voice
Be + VII
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3. Practice
* Exercise 3. There is one mistake in each sentence. Find and correct it.
2. How to form passive voice
Be + VII
The thieft is arrested yesterday.

2. A new hospital has built near my house recently.

3. Many valuable pictures were stole when we were away a few week ago.

4. I was given a nice present my parents on my birdday.

5. Smart phones is widely used to access online news.

is
-> was
has built
-> has been built
stole
-> stolen
my parents
-> by my parents
-> are
is
Friday, February 24th 2017
Hello everybody, Today, I’m going to introduce some interesting places of my city.
* Being a tourist guide
This is the hydroelectric dam. It/build/in 1979
This is our new urban area. So far many tall buildings/ build. And a lot of green trees / plant /along the street.
Uncle Ho Monument/ visit/many tourists/ every year.
And my school / locate / on the left side of Da river.
3. Practice
This is the hydroelectric dam. It was built in 1979
This is our new urban area. So far many tall buildings have been built. And a lot of green trees have been planted along the street.
Uncle Ho Monument is visited by many tourists every year.
And my school is located on the left side of Da river.
HOMEWORK
1.Learn by heart the usage and the form of Passve voice.
2. Write more than 4 sentences to talk about your neighbourhood using passive voice
THANK FOR
YOUR ATTENTION!