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Active Passive Voice Waste Not, Want Not
Active Passive Voice Waste Not, Want Not
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South America, biodiversity,
deforestation, timber harvesting, Amazon rainforest
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Task 3:Match sentences from column A with their equivalents from column B
Column A Column B
1. New roads were built in Amazonia by the Brazilian a.Timber companies fell 18000 km² of forest trees.
government. b.Timber companies degraded 4 to 5% of the forest.
2.15% of the forest was cleared. c. The Brazilian government does nothing to stop the
3.4 to 5% of the forest was degraded. degradation of the forest.
4.18000 km² of forest trees are felled by timber d. Timber companies cleared 15% of the forest.
companies. e. The Brazilian government built new roads in
5.Nothing is done by the Brazilian government to Amazonia.
stop the degradation of the forest.
Task 4: Identify the sentences which focus on the doer of the action and the ones focusing on the action
itself. What do you notice? Complete the rule.
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