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7.01. Passives

7.01 - Passives
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
• talk about places to visit in New York City.
• discuss facts about New York City.
 7.01 - Warm-up
Label the pictures with the correct location.

Word Bank:
Statue of Liberty Times Square Metropolitan Museum of Art
Central Park Empire State Building National September 11 Memorial & Museum
7.01 - Let’s Learn
To express the relationship of the subject to the action, English uses different voices:

active voice: the subject does the action (most common)

passive voice: the subject receives the action

Voice Subject Verb Object/By-Phrase

active Everybody drank water.
passive Water was drunk by everybody.

Notice how the object of the active verb becomes the subject of the passive verb.

Passive voice (in simple past) is formed:

Subject + was/were + past participle + (optional by-phrase)

Examples:
The World Trade Center was designed by Daniel Libeskind and David Childs.
The Statue of Liberty was given to the United States by France.
 7.01 - Let’s Learn
English uses the passive voice:

Reason Example
to emphasize the receiver of the action. President Kennedy was killed by Lee Harvey
Oswald.
to be vague about who is responsible. A mistake was made on the project.
when the person who did the action is unknown. The wall was graffitied last night.

Put the example sentences into the passive voice.

Example:
Brad made a mistake. = A mistake was made by someone on the team.

They sold all the tickets for the New York City Bus Tour.

Thousands of people saw the Broadway show.

7.01 - Let’s Practice
Talk about New York City using the passive voice (in simple past).
(Subject + was/were + past participle + (by-phrase))

Daniel Libeskind and David Childs built the World Trade Center.
The World Trade Center was built by Daniel Libeskind and David Childs.

Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux designed Central Park.

Tourists visited the Bronx Zoo, the Empire State Building, and the Metropolitan Museum
of Art last year.

Many people started companies in New York during the 20th century.
7.01 - Let’s Practice
Alfred Eisenstaedt, one of Life Magazine’s first staff
photographers in New York City, photographed one of the
most famous images called V-J Day in Times Square. The
magazine published the image in 1945.

Who photographed V-J Day in Times Square?

Who employed Alfred Eisenstaedt?

Where was the photo taken?

When was the image published?

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Wrap-up
Answer one of the following questions:

• How will you use what you learned today?

• What do you need to improve on?

• What did you do well on today?