RADIO-BASED INSTRUCTION

EPISODE 2

ACTIVE AND PASSIVE VOICE

Writer: Estelle Nica Marie M. Dunlao

Radio broadcaster: Hello, I’m teacher ________and Teacher _________I’m back for another episode in English 7.Get yourselves
ready as I bring you another fun and exciting lesson about active and passive voice.

Radio Broadcaster: This second episode is brought to you by DepEd Sagay Radyo sang Kaalam in partnership with Sagay Hapi Radio
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R: I know most of you are not really familiar with our topic for today which is the active and passive voice. Actually, many people are
confused by whether they are using the active or passive voice when writing or speaking, and in which scenario each is preferred.
Thankfully, there is a simple way of identifying the two styles. (insert sound effects)

R: Let us sing a song first as we now enter the world of active and passive voice.

I sing a lovely song.

A lovely song sung by me

What a beautiful song!

My sister heard the song

And she said, “A lovely song sung by you.”

So she took the guitar. “insert sound”

My sister plays the guitar.

The guitar is played by her.

Together we made a lovely song

(this song is not yet done, Ma’am)

R: The song you just heard is composed of active and passive voice sentences. To know more about active and passive voices why
don’t we listen to a story entitled the Voice Family.
Mr. Voice: Hi, everyone. Good day! I am Mr. Voice or the voice of the verb, refers to how a subject, object, and verb interact within a
sentence. I’ll introduce to you my two children namely, active voice and passive voice. My first born is active voice and the youngest
is passive voice. Whenever you write, you are maybe using either of my child’s voice. Can you please introduce yourself active voice
and passive voice?

Active voice: Hi, hello! I’m active voice. Writers, who write in active voice, place the subject first to emphasize that the subject
performs the action expressed by the verb.

Passive voice: Hey! I’m passive voice.

Active voice: if

Mr. Voice: I, Mr. Voice. Their order will determine if a sentence is in active or passive voice. The tone and focus of your writing can
change completely depending on which construction you use.

Mr. Voice: The key to know the difference is identifying the parts of a sentence. Remember a sentence follows a pattern. For example,
Gizelle sings a song. The pattern in this sentence is SUBJECT plus VERB plus OBJECT. This sentence pattern is used in active voice.

Mr. Voice: Gizelle is the subject. When we say subject, it is the doer of the action while sings is the verb. Verb is the action word and
lastly is song. Song is the object of a sentence.

Radio broadcaster: Hhmmm. Okay, Mr. Voice can you please give one more example of active voice?

Mr. Voice: Okay, sure. “James finished the homework.” is an example of active voice.

Radio broadcaster: I think the subject in that sentence is “James” am I right Mr. Voice?

Mr. Voice: Correct! James is the subject and is the doer of the action. Can you also locate the verb?

Radio broadcaster: Verb is the action word, right? So, I think “finished” is the answer.

Mr. Voice: Very good! How about the object?

Radio broadcaster: Well, based on you have said earlier that the object is the receiver of the action so I guess the answer is homework.
Mr. Voice: Amazing! You are correct. Here the action of ‘finishing’ is being done by the subject ‘James’.

Radio broadcaster: Wow, I thought it was hard to determine what an active voice but if you already know its parts, it is actually easy.

Mr. Voice: Exactly! Let us now proceed to passive voice. Again, in passive voice the subject receives the action expressed by the
verb. For example, “A song is sung by Gizelle.”

Mr. Voice: Here the ‘song’ is the subject, ‘sing’ is the verb and ‘Gizelle’ is the entity who did the action of singing and ‘song’ is the
entity on whom action has been done.

Radio broadcaster: Hmm. I can see that the difference between passive to active is the sentence construction! It is reversed!

Mr. Voice: Wow! You are such a keen observer. In passive voice, the object is written first, followed by the verb and of course the
subject.

Radio broadcaster: Yay! I already understand their difference. I hope our listeners can follow as well.

Mr. Voice: Yes, I know they can!

Mr. Voice: I will now tell you the how to chance the active voice to passive voice.

Mr. Voice: The magical guide is in the hands of the grade 7 students. They should open their module on page 13-14.

( I will insert the process of changing active to passive voice pa Ma’am and vice versa)

Mr. Voice: Now, let us give our lesson a little bit of rhythm. Everybody listen to my rap. 1,2,3 ...
yeah

Mr. Voice: “rap”

Active voice, active voice, active voice

In active voice, the subject is doing something.

In active voice, the subject is doing something.

Passive voice, passive voice, passive voice

In passive voice, something is happening to it.

In passive voice, something is happening to it.

Okay now, listen to me.

Maria boiled the egg is in active voice

The egg was boiled by Maria is in passive voice

Renzo holds a flower is in active voice

A flower is held by Renzo is in passive voice.

In active voice, the subject is doing something.

In active voice, the subject is doing something.

Passive voice, passive voice, passive voice

In passive voice, something is happening to it.

In passive voice, something is happening to it.

Radio broadcaster: Wow. I didn’t know our lesson