PASSIVE

PRESENT PASSIVE:
A- Combine the words to make sentences in the passive voice:
1- This room / clean /every day
2- How often / the room / clean?
3- Glass/ make/ from sand
4- Stamps /sell / in the post office
5- Football /play / in most countries
6- This machine / not / use / very often
7- What language / speak / in Ethiopia?
8- What / this machine / use / for?
9- Paper /make /from wood
10- Many different languages / speak / in India.
11- Many American programmes / see / British television
12- She has a good job. She / pay / $ 3,000 a month.

A- Complete this passage with is/are and the past participle of the verbs below. Some of
the verbs can be
Used more than once: find divide fill know produce visit
Every year, millions of tourists visit California. It ______________ for its beautiful
scenery, warm climate and excellent food. There are 20 national parks in California. They
_______________ by over 30 million people every year. Many world-famous museums
_________________ there, including the Getty Museum in Malibu and the San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art. The State _______________ into two parts called Northern
California and Southern California. San Francisco and Yosemite National Park
___________________ in Northern California. San Francisco has water on 3 sides and it
is a city with a beautiful bay and several bridges. Its streets ____________ always
____________ with tourists. On the north end of the bay is Napa Valley, where many
excellent wines ______________. South of San Francisco, there is an area that is famous
for its computer industries; it _______________ as Silicon Valley. Many computer
industries _______________ there. Los Angeles, Hollywood and Disneyland
______________ in Southern California. Southern California ____________ for its
desert areas, which are sometimes next to snowcapped mountains. Southern California is
one of the few places in the world where you can ski in the morning and surf in the
afternoon.

B- Make sentences with the passive about the following famous places and events in the
past. Use the verbs below: open build fight assassinate invent export

1- Montreal / the French / 1642. Montreal was founded by the French in 1642.
2- A civil war / England / 1642.
3- Tobacco / from America to Spain / 1553.
4- Coca-Cola / 1886 / in the USA
5- Mont Blanc tunnel / 1965.
6- Aswan dam/ 1970.
A- ACTIVE OR PASSIVE? Fill in with the correct past forms of the verbs in the box.
Choose between active and passive. This is the story of Bonny and Clyde.
Hit - steal - release - meet - offer - rob - catch - arrest - escape - chase -
begin - kill
Clyde Barrow’s life of crime ___________ in December 1926, when he ____________
some Christmas turkeys from a farm. He _________ by the police, but he ____________
soon afterwards, because he was only 16 years old. He __________ Bonnie Parker in
1930. Together they ____________ a large number of shops and banks. Innocent people
(often) _____________ in these robberies. Large rewards ___________ for their capture,
and they __________ from state to state by hundreds of police, but they (always)
__________________. Eventually, in 1934, Bonnie and Clyde __________ in a police
ambush. Their car ____________ by a hail of bullets, and they __________________.

B- Write questions for these answers:

1- When was the museum opened?
The museum was opened in 1985.
2- Where ___________________________________ ?
Those machines are manufactured in Germany?
3- Who _____________________________________ ?
The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel was painted by Michelangelo.
4- When ____________________________________ ?
The Olympic Games were held in Seoul, Korea in 1988.
5- Do you know when _________________________ ?
Yes. The Olympic Games were held in Stockholm in 1912.

C- Complete the sentences with the passive forms of the verbs in brackets.
1804 The first steam engine ________________ (build) in Great Britain.
1839 The bicycle ___________ (invent) by Kirkpatrick MacMillan in Great Britain
1911The South Pole ____________ (reach) by Amundsen.
1917 The Russian Revolution took place and communism ____________ (introduce).
1930Radar _______________ (use) for the first time.
1936/1939 The Spanish Civil War __________ (fight) between the Republicans and the
Nationalists.
1940The first colour television ____________ (make) in USA
1963John F. Kennedy ______________ ( assassinate) in Dallas.

NYLON : The first man-made fibre

NYLON ___________ (invent) in the early 1930’s by an American chemist, Julian Hill.
Other scientists ________ (work) with his invention and finally on 27 October 1938,
Nylon _______ (introduce) to the world. It was cheap and strong and immediately
_______ (become) successful, especially in the making of ladies’ stockings.
During the Second World War, the best present for many women was a pair of nylon
stockings, but more importantly, it _______ (use) to make parachutes and tyres.
Today, nylon ______ (find) in many things: carpets, ropes, seat belts, furniture,
computers, and even spare parts for the human body. It __________ (play) an important
part in our lives for over 50 years.
C- Complete this passage with is/are and the past participle of the verbs below. Some of
the verbs can be
Used more than once: find divide fill know produce visit
Every year, millions of tourists visit California. It ______________ for its beautiful
scenery, warm climate and excellent food. There are 20 national parks in California. They
_______________ by over 30 million people every year. Many world-famous museums
_________________ there, including the Getty Museum in Malibu and the San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art. The State _______________ into two parts called Northern
California and Southern California. San Francisco and Yosemite National Park
___________________ in Northern California. San Francisco has water on 3 sides and it
is a city with a beautiful bay and several bridges. Its streets ____________ always
____________ with tourists. On the north end of the bay is Napa Valley, where many
excellent wines ______________. South of San Francisco, there is an area that is famous
for its computer industries; it _______________ as Silicon Valley. Many computer
industries _______________ there. Los Angeles, Hollywood and Disneyland
______________ in Southern California. Southern California ____________ for its
desert areas, which are sometimes next to snowcapped mountains. Southern California is
one of the few places in the world where you can ski in the morning and surf in the
afternoon.

D- Make sentences with the passive about the following famous places and events in the
past. Use the verbs below: open build fight assassinate found export

1- Montreal / the French / 1642. Montreal was founded by the French in 1642.
7- A civil war / England / 1642.
8- Tobacco / from America to Spain / 1553.
9- Coca-Cola / 1886 / in the USA
10- Mont Blanc tunnel / 1965.
11- Aswan dam/ 1970.

D- Answer the following questions:

1- What kinds of fruits, vegetables and grains are grown in your country?
2- What kinds of animals are raised for meat?
3- What kinds of fish are caught in the lakes, rivers, or ocean?
4- What foods or other products are imported by our country?
5- What foods or other products are exported?
 PASSIVE VOICE
A- Complete this passage with is/are and the past participle of the verbs below. Some of
the verbs can be
Used more than once: find divide fill know produce visit
Every year, millions of tourists visit California. It ______________ for its beautiful
scenery, warm climate and excellent food. There are 20 national parks in California. They
_______________ by over 30 million people every year. Many world-famous museums
_________________ there, including the Getty Museum in Malibu and the San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art. The State _______________ into two parts called Northern
California and Southern California. San Francisco and Yosemite National Park
___________________ in Northern California. San Francisco has water on 3 sides and it
is a city with a beautiful bay and several bridges. Its streets ____________ always
____________ with tourists. On the north end of the bay is Napa Valley, where many
excellent wines ______________. South of San Francisco, there is an area that is famous
for its computer industries; it _______________ as Silicon Valley. Many computer
industries _______________ there. Los Angeles, Hollywood and Disneyland
______________ in Southern California. Southern California ____________ for its
desert areas, which are sometimes next to snowcapped mountains. Southern California is
one of the few places in the world where you can ski in the morning and surf in the
afternoon.

B- Make sentences with the passive about the following famous places and events in the
past. Use the verbs below: open build fight assassinate found export

1- Montreal / the French / 1642. Montreal was founded by the French in 1642.
12- A civil war / England / 1642.
13- Tobacco / from America to Spain / 1553.
14- Coca-Cola / 1886 / in the USA
15- Mont Blanc tunnel / 1965.
16- Aswan dam/ 1970

c- Put the verbs in the passive in the correct tense

THINGS GO BETTER WITH COCA-COLA
Coca-Cola __________ (enjoy) all over the world. 1.6 billion gallons ________ (sell)
every year, in over one hundred and sixty countries. The drink _______ (invent) by Dr
John Pemberton in Atlanta, on 8 May 1886, but it ________ (give) the name Coca-Cola
by his partner, Frank Robinson. In the first year, only nine drinks a day ________ (sell).

The business _______ (buy) by a man called Asa Candler in 1888, and the first factory
_________ (open) in Dallas, Texas, in 1895. Coca-Cola _________ (still-make) there.
Billions of bottles and cans _______ (produce) since 1895.

Diet Coke ________ (make) since 1982, and over the years many clever advertisements
________ (use) to sell the product. It is certain that Coca-Cola ________ (drink) far into
he twenty-first century