GRAMMAR The Passive ‘SHOW WHAT YOU KNOW +} 1 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the keen on shopping, but my mum loves it to the new pet shop yet. 2. Joel went to the newsagent’ at 7 a.m., but it open. 3. Trainers 50 expensive these days. Some of them cost over £100. 4 Mysister and | used to love playing ‘shop’ when we little. 2% Choose the correct forms, active or passive. We love turkey! Turkey Facts. Did you know .. 1 Archaeologists have found’ have been found evidence of turkeys that lived 10 million years ago. 2. The first turkeys brought / were brought to England in 526, 3. Turkey has been eaten / has eaten by ordinary UK families since the 1950s (before that itwas too expensive!) 4 Around 10 million turkeys sell/ are soldin the UK every Christmas. 5 About 20% of people in the UK don’t cook I aren't cooked turkey for Christmas dinner, However, over 80% do! 6 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin ate/ were eaten cold roast turkey when they landed on the moon. 3. + + Make the active sentences and questions passive. What language do people speak in the Netherlands? What language is spoken in the Netherlands? 1. Special software protects the computer from viruses. by special software. 2. Who wrote The Hobbit? Who by? 3A few people have seen the Loch Ness Monster since that moment. The Loch Ness Monster 4 A famous chef has just opened a new restaurant. by 2 famous chet 5. We dor't sell used books here. Used books 6 Did the sports teacher ask you to play in the school football team? by the sports teacher? 90 4% % % Complete the article with the correct passive form of the verbs in brackets. One sentence does not need the passive form. This month’s factfile is all about Scotforth Senior School Student Snack Shop (or 6S as we call it!) * 6S was opened (open) by students three years ago. + 6s" (not/start) to make money. * Every year, the profits from 6S 7 (give) to a aitferent charity. + 8s (make) over £2,000 for charity since it began. * Unsoid food from 6S ¢ (novthrow) away, i's given to the local homeless shelter. * Next year's charity * (n0t/choose) yet, So please put ideas in the 6S suggestion box. We hope that 6S will continue to be '6Sful' next year! @ 5 & % % Complete the text with the active or passive form of the verbs in brackets. ‘Today in the UK and the US over 50% of shopping is. _n2id (pay) for with plastic cards. The idea started in the US in the 1920s. The frst cards * (make) ‘of paper and could only be used in a few shops and hotels. Then, in the 1950s, an American businessman called Frank MeNamara had dinner ata restaurant one day, but 2 (not/have) enough cash to pay for is meal. This ® (Give) him the idea for the ‘Diner's Club Card! and the frst plastic credit card 4 invent). Since the 1950s, plastic : (use) to make all credit cards. Today, thore are over 1.5 billion credit cards in the US. ‘SHOW WHAT YOU'VE LEARNT 6 Choose the correct answers A-C. 1. Cigarette smoking __in public places in the UK since 2007. A isn't permitted hasn't been permitted 2 On busy days, over 100,000 people __ Harrods of London A visited B visit C is visited 3 In 2003 a lottery win of $28.5 million __ by anyone. The money went to the State of California, A wasn't collected B isn’t collected C hasn't been collected 4 Last year, millions of unsold sandwiches from shops ‘and cafés _ to homeless people across the UK. A are given B were given have been given 5. The Walton family __ the world's largest group of shops since it started in 1962, Aisowned B wasowned C has owned 6 __in bookshops? A Are e-books sold CC Have e-books sold B hasn't permitted 8 Doetboots se i) “GRAMMAR: Train and Ty Aasin page 150