5 GRAMMAR WORKSHEET B The passive Gramatyka

1 Choose the correct answer: A, B or C. 3 a Work in pairs. Imagine you are at a business
1 Pencils can during the exam. meeting and you are presenting a new app called
A being used B be used C used Quick School Notes. Complete the sentences
using the passive form, the phrases below and
2 A new product is now by our engineers.
your own ideas.
A been designed B be designed
C being designed 
3 In research last year, more than 1,000 customers
asked what they eat for breakfast.
A have been B were C had been
4 They informed about our decision tomorrow.
A will be B are C will have been
5 Similar practical strategies developed when this
company was created.
A was being B were being C are being
6 Some important changes at a meeting yesterday.
A have been discussed
B were discussed
C will be discussed
7 Before the product was in the shops, a lot of money
spent on advertising.
A had been B will be C has been advertise on social media / in newspapers
8 A lot of brilliant business ideas rejected in our download for free for (period of time)
company because of a lack of money. launch in (date)
develop by (name / company)
A have B been C are
sell online for (price)
2 Rewrite the sentences and questions in the passive form. test for (period of time)
Use by where necessary. invent by (name / company)
1 The customers are buying more smartphones this month. use by students at (name of school)
More smartphones . 1 It was
2 We hope that they will order the new laptops before
January.
We hope that the new laptops . .
3 They have no choice, they have to accept our first offer. 2 It has
They have no choice, our first offer
.
4 They haven’t discussed this plan yet.
.
This plan .
3 It will
5 In the next six months this company may produce a new
kind of robot.
In the next six months a new kind of robot
. .
6 When did he sign this document? 4 It can
When ?
7 He said that he’d found my wallet.
He said that . .
8 We were developing a business plan last month. 5 It is being

9 The company employs about two hundred people in

three different countries. .
6 It is
10 Should we invite Molly to the party?
?
.
3 b Now join another pair of students. Practise
presenting your ideas for the app, asking and
answering questions.

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