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Name: David Fernando Guzmán S.

Date: 19/03/2021

HOW STUFF WORKS

USEFUL 1. Complete
INFORMATION
Complete the following sentences using Passive Voice. Use the
verb in brackets.
Passive Voice
1. The greatest diversity of wild cotton species found (find)
Affirmative
in Mexico.
Object + verb to be (in
2. Leather used (use) to make various goods including
Present or Past) + verb
footwear, automobile seats, clothing and furniture.
(in Past Participle) +
complement
3. Steel known (know) in antiquity and produced
(produce) in bloomeries.
Examples:
4. Wood found (find) in the stems and roots of trees and
Present: This table is
other woody plants.
made of wood.
Past: The telephone was 1.first glass made (make) in the region of Syria
5. The
invented in 1876 by
around 5000BC.
Alexander G. Bell.
6. Metal found (find) in the Earth's crust in the pure, free
Negative
elemental form.
Object + verb to be (in
7. Rubber Harvested (harvest) mainly in the form of
Present or Past) + not +
the latex from the rubber tree or others.
verb (in Past Participle)
+ complement
8. Parkesine considered (consider) the first man-made
plastic. The plastic material patented (patent)
Examples:
by Alexander Parkes, in Birmingham, England in 1856.
Present: iPhones are
not manufactured in
the USA.
Past: Glass was not
used before 5000 BC.
1
 Yes/No Questions
Verb to be (in Present
or Past) + object + verb
(in Past Participle) +
complement
Examples:
Present: Is coffee only
grown in Colombia?
Past: Were washing
machines created in
Europe?
2. Classifying
Use the verbs in the correct form to complete the text
How is glass made?
COOL TURN HEAT MAKE REFFER
Glass is 1 made from liquid sand. Ordinary sand is 2heated at a
temperature of 1700 °C. After it is molten and 3 cooled, it gains
a different structure. But it doesn’t matter how much you cool
the sand, it is never 4 turn into a solid. Instead, it becomes a
kind of frozen liquid 5 referred by scientists as amorphous
solid.

Wh-Questions MIX BE HEAT

Wh-word + verb to be (in In a commercial glass plant, sand 6 was 7 mixed with waste
Present or Past) + object + glass (from recycling collections), soda ash (sodium carbonate),
verb (in Past Participle) + and limestone (calcium carbonate) and 8 heated in a furnace.
Complement + ?
CALL ADD
Examples:
Present: What are cell
The soda reduces the sand's melting point, which helps to
phones made of?
save energy during manufacture, but it has an unfortunate
Past: When were the
drawback: it produces a kind of glass that would dissolve
Egyptian pyramids
in water! The limestone is used to stop that happening. The
built?
end-product is 10 mixed soda-lime-silica glass. It's the ordinary
glass we can see all around us.
VOCABULARY

Plastic 3. Generalizing
Steel
Wood According to the PPT, write about two of your favorite goods
Glass one from the past and one from the present.
Fabric
Cotton 1. Object’s name: The Walkman
Leather (PAST)Sentence: Walkman was used for listen music
Iron
Silver 2. Object’s name: Laptop
Rubber (PRESENT) Sentence: Laptop find information researched for the
Paper cybernout.
Metal
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