1)

Over the past ten years, this area (experience) has experienced severe flooding. Houses

Present perfect

(damage) have been damaged and roads (destroy) have been destroyed . The local authority (decide)

Present perfect (passive voice)

decided to introduce a flood control system. At present our worforce (built) is building a dam on the west

simple past present progressive

side of the town and dikes along the river bank (heighten) are being heightened . We must complete the

present progressive (passive voice)

work within two months, so at present we (work) are working 24 hours a day. We (believe) believe that

present progreesive simple present

these measures will solve the problem in the short term on the 1st May we (start) are starting work on

present progressive

a new watercourse. The plans (already /draw up) have already been drawn up and we

present perfect (passive voice)

(be) are ready to start next week.

Simple present

2)The mistakes are underlined .

a- Sydney Harbour Bridge was building in 1932.

was built ( simple past (passive voice) ) .

b- While they carried out tests in the laboratories , reasearchers were analysing past results.

were carrying (past progressive) .

c- The first real road builders in Britain was the Romans.

were (to be in the simple past)

d- The system didn’t working because the loudspeaker had been wrongly connected.

work ( auxiliary did + bare infinitive)

3) Make present /past tense using the words given.

a) When / they / install / the solar panels ? (simple present)

- When do they install the solar panels ?

b) While / the superviser / check / the delivery , the employees / work . (present progressive)

-While the supervisor is checking the delivery , the employees are working.

c) How / they prepare access to the mine ? (simple past)

- How did they prepare access to the mine ?

d) They / not use / wood chip / for heating / when the engineer / visit / the factory. (simple past)

They didn’t use wood chip for heating when the engineer visited the factory.

*The active voice illustrates a sentence where the subject performs the action that stated by the verb.

Form: SUBJECT + VERB + OBJECT.

The passive voice is used when we want to emphasize the action (the verb) and the object of a sentence
rather than the subject. 

Form :  object + VERB + “TO BE” + PAST PARTICIPLE

Present simple : am, is, are + past participle

Present progressive : am, is, are + being + past participle

Past simple : was, were + past participle

Past progressive : was, were + being + past participle .

Future (will) : will be + past participle

Future (going to) : am, is, are + going to be + past participle

Present perfect : has, have + been + past participle

Past perfect : had + been + past participle

Future perfec : will + have been + past participle

Modals : (can, could, must,... ) + be + past participle