The Pass ve Vo ce n News

by Buse AYVAZ

Anticipated Problems
Time I tried find catchy headlines in order to get
40 minutes or 1 class period the students' attention,
Students might have difficulties in
Grade Level recognizing the difference between the
Intermediate passive voice and the active. Thus, the
lesson begins with basic level sentences.
Target Students
Prep Class (Prep/D) Assumed Knowledge
Student have already known the active
Size voice of some particular tenses such as
23 students Present Simple, Past Simple and Continuous
Tenses
Materials
A PowerPoint Presentation
Headlines from the News
A news Objectives
An Interactive video The students will be able to:
Distinguish between active and passive voice
Lesson Aim in sentences
To teach the form and function of the identify and use different forms of the passive.
passive voice, as used in the English Create sentences in the active and passive
language.  voice
put the sentences that contain passive
structure into the correct order.

Rationale
This lesson's focus is on the structure of the passive. At the very beginning, it allows
students to begin to identify active and passive voice through a familiar form of media: the
newspapers' headlines. through the headlines, the students have an opportunity to discover
the structure with the help of the teacher. In order to make the identification of the passive
and active voice, the students examine a short text and chage the sentence forms from
passive to active or active to passive. An interactive clip of Ratatouille ends the lesson.
During the clip, students select the correct verb form to complete sentences using the Active
Voice. In the next question, students change the sentence from the Active Voice to the
Passive Voice. Correlatively, Preparing a newspaper or a kind of news bulletin is assigned.
the form of presentation is left to the students' choice. Either they can record themselves as
if they are an anchor or they can prepare a newspaper.
 Procedure
Time Teacher  Activity Student  Activity Aids

The teacher begins the lesson by presenting

newspaper headlines to students.
Thousands of THY flights canceled after
Corona Virus
Lead-In 30,000-year-old jewelry found in Indonesia The students read the
Appendix
0-5th mins Trump claims Corona Virus made in a China sentences, analyze them, and
I
Laboratory share their personal opinions.
People in Italy not allowed to go outside
Then the teacher asks " Are these sentences
correct? Do you think they have something
missing ?Read them and think about it!?
What do you understand from the
headlines?’"

The teacher asks the students to identify the

main verb that comes after the subject. Then,
S/he asks if the subject of each sentence does
the action, pointing out to the first sentence:
"Did flights do the action of cancelling ?
Can a plane say 'I don't want to fly today,
cancel all the flights? Of course the flights
cannot cancel themselves. Someone has to
make the decision to cancel them. Who
may cancel ? Turkish Airlines."
S/he puts "were" between flights and
cancelled.
Exposure "When the subject of a verb so in the The students listens to the Appendix
5th-10th example THY flight, is more important than teacher and state their opinion I
mins the person or thing carrying it out.The
passive always need to contain " to be"
+verb3. Now I don't hope that your head is
spinning because it's really quite easy I'll
show you. Let's see the next headline.
30,000-year-old jewelry WAS found in
Indonesia. This headline is in passive voice
because the jewelry did not do the action
'find.' The archaeologists in Indonesia found
the jewelry. Since the jewelry is more
important than who found it, this sentence
is in the passive form.
 So what do you think about this sentence ?
(pointing to" People in Italy not allowed to go
outside")
People in Italy are not allowed to go outside.
Passive voice is used when someone else do
the action. People in Italy would like to go
outside but the government don't allow them
because of Corona Virus.
And last headline ? What is missing, then ?
Trump claims Corona Virus 'was' made in a
China Laboratory = As I said before, if the
subject did not do the action itself, the passive
voice is used. Trump emphasizes corona come
into being by itself. The scientists in a China
Lab made it.

While s/he delivers the worksheets,The teacher

says :
"Now It's your turn. Carefully read the texts. In
the first section, you will underline the passive
voice and circle the active vioce. Then you will
answer the questions at the bottom of the page
according to the paragraph above the questions.
When you have done, compare your answers
with your pairs. If you have different answers,
discuss your reasons. You have 10 minutes.
Highlighting Then we will check! " The students complete their
10th-25th While checking the answers, The teacher attracts worksheets. Then, they discuss Appendix II
mins the attention on the question form of the passive their answers. An
voice : The Students watch the clip
Have you noticed how the passive questions are and answer the questions
formed? The helping verb in the passive voice is asked.
"to be (am,is,are and their forms). to form a
question, the helping verb (am,is,are) and the
action verb are split by the subject.
For example:
The Starry Night is painted in 1889.
When was The Starry Night painted ?
and put the wh- question at the very beginning
of the question.
 The teacher puts the students into three qroups.
Preferably, each group will have one students
who has a smartphone and internet access. Each
group will open the link below and answer the
Practice questions asked during the clip as a group. An
25th-40th "Please open this link, during the clip, some As a group the students will Interactive
mins questions are asked. as a group you will answer answer the questions to get
Clip of
them. You will collect points. you can see your the highiest score.
Ratatouille
score at the right top of the screen. You have ten
minutes to do it. Please be carefull and take
your time. The winner will be the group who has
highiest score, not the first group. Okay! 3-2-1!
Go!
https://en.islcollective.com/video-
lessons/passive-voice-ratatouille

Assignment

The teacher shows the an example of the

assignment and explain:
As you see, this is a basic sample of a news The students will search for
paper. Your Assignment is prepare something news with the passive voice or
like this. Collect news and present them. 3 news write the news they have found
are enough. The passive voice should be included with the passive form.
in news. You can write all over again or find ones
with the passive voice. Also, How you will
present is up to you. If you like, you record
yourself, or design a newspaper like this. Due
date is the next class.
Appendix I
 Appendix II
Read the text and underline the passive voice and circle the active voice.

In a home robbery last week, two men wearing orangeski masks broke into a
house on Seneca street and stole $20,000 dollars worth of valuables. The
home owner, Gary Johnson, said that some of his most valuable possessions
were stolen while he was at the movie theatre, and he can't believe it. Mr.
Johnson said, ''My front door window was broken and the lock was
destroyed. They threw things all over the house as they tried to find
anything worth money.'' Police are investigating the incident and they are
asking anyone who knows something about this robbery to come forward
with details. ''The important thing,'' Mr. Johnson noted, ''is that nobody was
hurt. Things can be replaced, but people cannot.''
Change the active voice sentences below into passive voice, and passive voice
sentences into active voice

Two men wearing orangeski masks broke into

a house on Seneca street and stole $20,000
dollars worth of valuables.
They threw things all over the house.
Police are investigating the incident.
Some of his most valuable possessions were
stolen
My front door window was broken and the
lock was destroyed

Read the paragraph below and answer the questions.

When was The Starry Night painted ?

By whom was is painted ?

Where was it made ?

What is shown in the painting ?

Where is the original painting ?

 Appendix III
A circus Ilama was kidnapped by five
drunk youth in France
The Sun was shot by a
man in Adana, Turkey

In Adana, A man who

get exhausted from
heat was arrested by
the police because of
shooting the sun with
a gun.

Five French teenagers from Bordeaux were arrested after they

kidnapped a llama from a circus and took it out on the town.