7–8 GRAMMAR COMMUNICATION B1

Quite interesting
Choose a verb and turn over up to five cards until you find a matching sentence.
Write the correct passive form of the verb on the card and keep the card. The team
with the most correct sentences at the end of the game is the winner.

Verbs
add award buy call cause
discover eat find fold give
hurt introduce invent make name
need open produce save sell
serve share speak spend write

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10 More people each year 18 10% of all the world’s active
1 Five years of a person’s life
 by bees than by volcanoes can  in
 eating.
snakes. Japan.

11 Each year, 46 million turkeys

2 The first pair of Converse All 19 The world’s first underground
 by Americans at
Stars  in 1917. railway  in 1863.
Thanksgiving.

3 Your birthday  by 20 In 1867, Alaska 

12 Jeans  by Jacob
about 18 million other people from Russia by the USA for two
Davis and Levi Strauss in 1873.
around the world. cents an acre.

4 Since 1935, more than 21 Children in Russia 

13 Cotton is white before colour
275 million Monopoly sets a birthday pie instead of a
 to it.
 worldwide. birthday cake.

5 About 50,000 English words 14 45 million customers 22 172,000 tons of chocolate

can  with an  food and drinks at  in Belgium
average‑sized pencil. McDonald’s every day. each year.

15 Each time you recycle a

6 The first Nobel Peace Prize 23 A sheet of paper cannot
glass bottle, enough energy
 to the founder of  more than
 to power a light
the Red Cross in 1901. 12 times.
bulb for three hours.

7 The Macintosh raincoat 16 The planet Neptune 24 More pollution  by

 after the artist and  in 1846 by one 1960s car than by 20 small
inventor Charles Macintosh. a mathematician. modern cars.

25 In 1962, the Nike brand

8 The Olympic flame  17 About 6,900 different languages
 Blue Ribbon
at the 1928 Amsterdam games.  around the world.
Sports (BRS).

9 36 cups of milk  to
make 500 grams of butter.

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