Passive voice – worklist:

1, Look :

We / make / tables / from wood.
Tables / are made / from wood.
Somebody / stole / my shoes / last week.
My shoes / were stolen / last week.
Picasso / painted / Guernica.
Guernica / was painted / by Picasso.
She / takes / her dog / for a walk.
Her dog / is taken / for a walk / by her.

2, Complete the rule :

To make the passive we use ………………………/……………………….and

…………………………………………………………………… .

3, Read the sentences in passive voice from the first exercise again and write them in the correct part A or B :

A, Passive voice : present

…………………………………………………………………………………………………

…………………………………………………………………………………………………

B, Passive voice : past

…………………………………………………………………………………………………

…………………………………………………………………………………………………

4, Complete the sentence with am, is are or was, were and put the verb in brackets in the correct form:

A, Yoghurt ……………………… ( make ) from milk.

B, This house ………………………….. ( build ) in 1930 .

C, I ……………………………. ( call ) Jamie by my granny .

D, We ………………………….. ( wake up ) by a loud noise last night .

E, Two hundred people ………………………………. ( employ ) by the company at the moment.

5, Complete the sentences .

Use passive present, passive past, passive present perfect and passive future with will.

A, The profesor…………….kidnapped by some criminals yesterday.

B, The show ……………..be seen by millions of people tomorrow.

C, The award ………………………. stolen .

D, The award …………………… kept in the bank safe at the moment.

6, Practise :

Tense Active Passive

Present simple / Hunters hunt and kill between 3 – 4000 brown bears every year.
Present
continuous / The employees are looking well after the nature reserve.
Past
simple / Hunters found the young bear in the deep forest in Russia.
Past
continuous / Somebody was cleaning the cage for the orphan bear yesterday at 4 o´clock.
Present
perfect / The orphanage have saved over a hundred bear cubs.
will / The experts will release some bears in other European countries where they are now extinct.

Instructions and solution :

1, Žáci si prohlédnou rámečky a pokusí se znich sami vyvodit pravidlo pro cvičení 2.

2, Doplň pravidlo :

To make the passive we use …am, is, are…/…was, were…………….and

………………past participle…………………………………………………… .

3, Přečti si věty vtrpném rodě ve cvičení 1 a zapiš je do správného rámečku A nebo B :

A, Passive voice : present

Tables / are made / from wood.
Her dog / is taken / for a walk / by her.

B, Passive voice : past

Guernica / was painted / by Picasso.
My shoes / were stolen / last week.

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4, Doplň am, is are or was, were do vět a dej sloveso vzávorce do správného tvaru :

A, Yoghurt ……is made………………… ( make ) from milk.

B, This house ……was built…………………….. ( build ) in 1930 .

C, I ………am called……………………. ( call ) Jamie by my granny .

D, We ………were woken up………………….. ( wake up ) by a loud noise last night .

E, Two hundred people ……are employed…………………………. ( employ ) by the company at the moment.

5, Doplň věty .

Použij trpný přítomný,trpný minulý, trpný předpřítomný a trpný budoucí ( will ) čas.

A, The profesor…was………….kidnapped by some criminals yesterday.

B, The show …will…………..be seen by millions of people tomorrow.

C, The award …has been……………………. stolen .

D, The award ……is……………… kept in the bank safe at the moment.

6, Procvič :

Tense Active Passive

Present simple / Hunters hunt and kill between 3 – 4000 brown bears every year. / 3 – 4000 brown bears are hunted and killed by hunters every year.
Present
continuous / The employees are looking well after the nature reserve. / The nature reserve is being looked well after by the employees .
Past
simple / Hunters found the young bear in the deep forest in Russia. / The young bear was found in the deep forest in Russia by hunters.
Past
continuous / Somebody was cleaning the cage for the orphan bear yesterday at 4 o´clock. / The cage for the orphan bear was being cleaned yestarday at 4 o´clock.
Present
perfect / The orphanage have saved over a hundred bear cubs. / Over a hundred bear cubs have been saved by the orphanage.
will / The experts will release some bears in other European countries where they are now extinct. / Some bears will be released in other European countries where they are now extinct by experts .