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Integrating Target Structures
Students read short essays on the characteristics of several cities. They discuss these characteristics focusing on the use of the passive and active voice in past tenses.
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Sentence Work on Passive Voice
Students explore passive voice. They bring in rough drafts, exchange with other students, and look for ways to improve the essays through the elimination of the passive voice.
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Analyzing Language in a Speech: The Montgomery Bus Boycott Speech
Scholars analyze the use of active and passive voice in The Montgomery Bus Boycott speech and refer to an Active and Passive Sentences handout while viewing the text. Pairs of learners then work together to identify passive and active...
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Nominalization and Passive Voice Exercise
Students distinguish between passive voice and nomialization.
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Social Movements in American Politics
Students explore American social movements. In this writing skills instructional activity, students read Orwell's "Politics and the English." Students then apply the rules for writing that are included in the piece. Students follow-up by...
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English Language Skills: Passive Voice
In this online interactive English skills worksheet, students respond to 10 multiple choice questions that requires them to change sentences in active voice to sentences in passive voice. Answers are scored immediately.
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Passive/Active Test
In this passive and active tenses worksheet, students choose the correct tense to fit a given sentence. Students also identify transitive and intransitive verbs.
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Passive Voice Sentences
In this passive voice worksheet, students change a set of 9 sentences from the passive to active tense, writing answers beneath sentences already given.
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Passive Voice Activity
In this interactive sentence rephrasing worksheet, students rewrite each of the 29 sentences in a passive voice. This worksheet is interactive.
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A Thanksgiving Story
In this active and passive voice activity, learners read a paragraph regarding Thanksgiving and then rewrite five of the sentences in passive voice.
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Letter of Complaint
Students compose letters of complaint. In this written communication lesson, students read sample letters of complaint and use the provided graphic organizer to analyze them.
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The Passive Voice
Use this resource to introduce the passive voice. The first box highlights important information on the passive voice. The second box contains a short assessment. Are your middle schoolers understanding how to use it?
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America's Civil Rights Movement, Activity Six
Pupils explore non-violence and investigate the difference between passive and active voice.
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English Exercise: Passive Voice
In this passive voice worksheet, students use either present, past, present perfect or future tense and fill in blanks in sentences. Links to additional resources and audio version are given.
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Active or Passive?
In this ESL verbs activity, students read an article and decide whether the active or passive voice should be used for each space.
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ESL: Passive Voice Exercise
In this ESL passive voice worksheet, students select the correct verb phrase to complete a simple sentence in past or present simple tense and complete sentences.
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Following Instructions
Get scholars thinking about the scientific process with this fun experiment they can do at home. Learners practice reading directions as they underline each instruction in a procedural paragraph. They create a flow chart and record what...
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The Passive Voice in Questions Exercise
In this passive voice worksheet, students change the sentences from active to passive voice. Students complete this for 12 sentences.
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Passive Voice
In this passive voice worksheet, students complete the sentences with am, are, or is, also complete them with verbs, and more. Students complete 4 activities.
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Passive voice - Present Simple
In this passive voice worksheet, students rewrite the sentences to be in the passive voice. Students complete 10 sentences total.
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ESL: Passive Voice Activity
In this ESL passive voice worksheet, students put sentences into passive voice with 50 total. A link to audio and additional resources is given.
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Passive Voice - Present Perfect
For this passive voice worksheet, students rewrite the present perfect sentences into the passive voice. Students rewrite 16 sentences.
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Rewrite the Following Sentences in the Passive Voice
In this passive voice writing review worksheet, students read 7 sentences and then rewrite each one of them in the passive voice.
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Newspaper Passive Texts
For this passive texts worksheet, students read newspaper articles and put them into the passive form. Students put 4 articles into the passive form.