PASSIVE VOICE READING ACTIVITY

Read the following text, identify all the sentences that are in passive voice and highlight
them in green, and then change all the sentences that are highlighted in yellow into
passive voice, and finally write a text in passive voice where you can explain the process
of something or how something is done.

INVENTIONS

The 1920s was an exciting time for inventions. Some of the things that people
invented around that time changed the lives of millions of people, and some of
those inventions are still widely used today.

The television

The invention with the biggest impact was probably the television. It was invented
by a Scottish man, John Logie Baird. The first televised pictures were sent over a
short distance in 1924, and his invention was formally demonstrated at the Royal
Institute two years later. The pictures on the screen were not clear, but the viewers
could see that they were human faces, and they could see their eyes opening and
closing. In 1928, images were sent from Britain to America, and later, to a ship
1,500 miles out to sea. In the same year, the first colour images were sent. The
first ‘seeing-in sets’ were sold that same year. For £25 (£1000 in today’s money),
people in their homes could watch moving images that were sent from a
broadcasting station.

The polygraph

Another interesting invention of the 1920s was the polygraph, or lie detector. It was
invented in 1921 by a Californian policeman, John Larson. He used the ideas of
other psychologists to make a machine that measured people’s heart rate,
breathing and blood pressure while they were asked questions. The experts
believed that sudden changes in these measurements showed that someone was
lying. Although this invention is well-known, it can’t really detect lies. Marston tried
to use measurements from his polygraph in a court case in 1923, but they weren’t
accepted as evidence and never have been since then. However, polygraphs are
still used by some police forces and the FBI because many people believe they
work, so they tell the truth to avoid the machine.

MOBILE TELEPHONE:
A mobile phone is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls
over a radio frequency while the user is moving around a telephoned
serviced area. The first mobile phone was created by Martin Cooper a
researcher from Motorola in 1973. And the first phonecall was made to
John F Mitchel. It was until 1980’s when the first commercial mobile
phones were sold.
SMART PHONES
The first mobile phone with smart devices incorporated was developed by
IBM in 1992, but it was not very popular in the world. It was until 1994 that
the first commercially produced Smartphone was introduced by the
company Simon Personal Communicator. Emails and faxes were
received by the SImon, the name of the first Smartphone.

Active voice to Passive Voice:

Some of the things that people invented:
Some of the things was invented by people.
They could see their eyes opening and closing:
Their eyes opening and closing could be seen by them.
People in their homes could watch moving images:
Images moving could be watched by people in their home.
They tell the truth to avoid the machine:
The machine is avoided because they tell the truth.

Text in Passive Voice:

Topic: How to make a drawing of a realistic eye.
First, a pencil is needed to drawing and a draft that is used if we need to delete
errors. Then, a circle is drawn with your hand and around him we drawing an
almond. After that, a little circle is drawn inside of the circle that was drawn
previously, the little circle is colored and when it was totally darkened, could be
continued with the other circle, coloring softly until it look like a grey color and after
a lines is made starting from the little circle to the edge of the bigger circle varying
his size. The next step, a curved line is made on top of the almond. Almost to
finishing, is colored the background of the eye more softly that the pupil, and also
is colored the background around the eye leaving the shines uncolored. And now
to finishing an eyelashes are drawn with curved lines using correctly their
directions.
¡Congratulations is made your realistic eye drawing!