Period 5 Grammar (1)
Teaching goals
● To identify and use the passive voice
● To recognize and understand the context for using the passive
Step 1 Greeting & Warming up
Step 2 Presenting
We use active voice when it is important to know who performs the action.
e.g. Daniel bought a new computer.
(We want to know who bought a new computer)
Explain that we use the passive voice when we are interested in the thing which was done rather than the person who did it.
We can use the passive voice when
1. it is obvious who performs the action
2. we do not know or cannot remember who performed the action.
3. we think the action is more important than the person who performs the action.
Step 3 Teaching
1. Ask Ss to read the three examples of the passive voice and to circle the verb in each one (are taught, was sold and are sold)
2. In each of the examples, ask Ss to identify the doer of the verb, e.g.,
‘Word processing skills are taught in our computer lessons.’ (The teacher, presumably)
‘The printer was sold already.’ ( We do not know who did it.)
‘Educational CD-ROMs are sold in many countries.’ (Many different people)
3.For stronger classes, ask students to try to change the example sentences into the passive voice.
e.g. The teacher teaches word processing skills in our computer lessons.
Someone sold the printer yesterday.
Shops sell educational CD-ROMs in many countries.
4. We form the passive voice in the simple present tense and the simple past tense like this.
Subject ‘am’//’are’//’is’ Past participle
I Am (not)
You/We /They Are (not)
He/She /It Is (not)
Subject ‘Was’// ‘were’ Past participle
I Was (not)
You/We /They Were (not)
He/She /It Was (not)
Step 4 Exercises
1. Finish the exercise on Page 46 “A telephone conversation”
2. Do some exercises
(1) A thief ____ (catch) yesterday evening.
(2)When ____ the bridge _____? (build) --- In 1990.
(3)Football ______(play) by the young man every day.
(4)My mum waters flowers every day.
Flowers _____ ______ by my mum every day.
(5)The headmaster showed the foreign visitors around our school.
The foreign visitors ____ _____ around our school.
(6)Everyone knows the Great Wall.
The Great Wall ___ _____ by everyone
(7)Tom spent two hours on football last Sunday.
two hours ___ _____ on football last Sunday by Tom.
Step 5 Homework