How Jelly Beans are made – Passive voice

1. Discuss the questions:

• Do you know how some of your favourite food products are

produced?
• What kind of machines are used in food production?
• Have you ever visited a factory where food is produced?

2. Match the words to their picture:

to mix / to polish / a conveyor belt / to inject / a mould

3. Match the words to their meaning:

A tray: • •-A tasteless, fluffy powder,

used to make food thick
Starch: • •-A hard yellow stuff made by
bees for building their houses
A Centre: • •-The middle of something
•-An open box with a long, flat
Wax: • bottom; used to carry things
4. You will watch a video about the production of Oreo cookies.
Before you watch this, think:

• What ingredients do Jelly Beans have inside?

Watch and see whether you were right!

5. Watch the video again and put the sentences below in the
correct order.

Trays filled with starch are moved forward.

The jelly bean centres are transported down a conveyer belt to a steam
machine.
Starch is poured onto trays and a machine called a leveller makes the starch
flat.
A moulding board presses down into the starch to make the moulds for the
jelly beans.
Hot syrup and wax are mixed onto the beans to polish them.
Heated liquid sugar is mixed together with glucose and starch.
A machine injects the sugar liquid into the starch moulds to make the jelly
bean centres.
The jelly bean centres are taken into a drying room where they are dried for 24
hours.
A machine flips over the trays, separating the starch from the jelly bean
centres.
After drying for 24 hours, the jelly beans are put into packages and sent to
shops.
The jelly bean centres go into a spinning drum where sugar is sprayed onto
them.
Liquid sugar, food colouring, flavouring, and sugar are mixed into the jelly bean
centres four times to build a coating on the beans.

6. Transform the sentences describing Oreo production into passive

voice sentences.
The cat chased the mouse.

The teacher gave the students a homework assignment.

The chef prepared a delicious meal.

The children planted flowers in the garden.

The mechanic fixed the car's engine.

The storm damaged several houses in the neighbourhood.

The team won the championship trophy.

.
The artist painted a beautiful landscape.
7. Speaking. The teacher will give you an example of a process.
Using the words below, talk about how the process is done. Use the
passive voice.

After that,… Finally,…. First,… Next,… Then,…