UNIVERSIDAD POPULAR DEL CESAR

Subject: LENGUA EXTRANJERA UPC07 Topic: PASSIVE VOICE Complete tenses

Teacher: María Luisa Araujo Romero Date:
Guide: Active Vs. Passive Student:
Objective: Recognize how the object from an active voice becomes into subject in a passive expression.
PASSIVE VOICE
When we are more interested in the object of an active sentence than the subject, We use the
Passive Voice.
GRAMMAR FOCUS: HOW CAN YOU MAKE THE PASSIVE VOICE?
Always in a passive voice should be present the auxiliary Be + The Main Verb in Past Participle tense.
Examples: America is discovered by Cristopher Colombus in 1492
The telephone was designed by Alexander Graham Bell

GRAMMAR FOCUS: CHANGES FOR PASSIVE VOICE

WHEN
Present Simple: John Pemberton invents Coca-Cola
Past Simple: DaVinci painted the Gioconda
Future: Children will do all homeworks on computer
Future Be going to: Gucci is going to design a new fragance
Present Continuous: Juanes is singing the Greatest Hits
Past Continuous: Bond was pointing to Scaramanga with his golden gun
Present Perfect: Swiss people have made the best watches in the history
Past Perfect: The young lady had written the sad letter
Future Perfect: Scientists will have conquered Mars by 2050
THEN CHANGE FOR…
Coca_Cola is invented by John Pemberton
The Gioconda was painted by DaVinci
Homeworks will be done by children on computer
A new fragrance is going to be designed by Gucci
The Greatest Hits are being sung by Juanes
Scaramanga was being pointed by Bond…
Best watches have been made by Swiss people
A sad letter had been written by the young lady
Mars will have been conquered by scientists

1. SNAPSHOT: HURRICANES
Read this story and fill the blanks using the verbs from the box. Don’t forget choose the more
appropriated tense to form the Passive Voice.

WEATHER AND COMMUNICATION SATELLITES

Today satellites _are used_ (use) mostly for communications and for
weather tracking. In 1900, Galveston- Texas, _______________ 1.
(hit) by a hurricane, without warning and as many 8000 people
_______________ 2. (kill). A good method _______________
3. (need) to predict hurricanes.
The first weather satellite _______________ 4. (send) into the
sky in 1960, and it sent back a fuzzy gray image. Today the blurry
image _______________ 5. (replace) by brightly colored images
of hurricanes. Reports on possible natural disasters
_______________ 6. (see) on TV by thousands of people, and
predictions _______________ 7. (make) ahead of time by the
Weather Bureau. In 1992, much damage _______________ 8.
(cause) by Hurricane Andrew in Florida, the second most expensive
natural disaster in the history of the United States, but only 14 deaths
were direct storm fatalities. Don´t forget, recently the worst natural
disaster lived by American people was Katrina.

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What has been done?
2. An old street in Merton has been modernized. Use the verbs from the box to write what has
been changed in Present Perfect Passive

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Build Widen Paint Plant Provide x2 Put up Pull down Repair Take away
a. The street has been turned into a beautiful pedestrian zone
b. Street lamps _______________________________________________________
c. Trees and flowers ___________________________________________________
d. The pavement ______________________________________________________
e. A fountain _________________________________________________________
f. Litter bins _________________________________________________________
g. The bus stop _______________________________________________________
h. The old house ______________________________________________________
i. The shops _________________________________________________________
j. The holes in the road _________________________________________________
k. Benches __________________________________________________________
3. WORD POWER: Practice Active or Passive?
Activity: Read the articles below and choose the correct verb form, active or passive.

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4. 5. Passive or active voice?