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There are now 156 passive voice worksheets to choose from in this section. They are all free and easy to print out for use in your classroom; you can even adapt them to suit your students better. This worksheet contains some clever exercises on passive voice but they are for a variety of learners levels so you should choose what will work best in your ESL classroom. Most of the material would be appropriate for pre-intermediate students but the exercises on the article “Einstein’s Chauffeur” are more challenging. The worksheet is very easy to make changes to so download it for free today to view its contents more thoroughly. There are also a couple articles about teaching passive voice that you should check out; they have even more lesson ideas and some tips to help you and your students.
Beginners will always start out with active voice sentences so they may feel like their world has been turned upside down when you start introducing the passive voice. Make your introduction interactive by eliciting what students already know so that they feel confident going into this lesson. Once you have completed your introduction and some practice activities, talk about how this can be useful and where students might encounter passive voice sentences. Give some examples and see if students can think of others. Most practice activities focus on rewriting active sentences as passive ones; this is something that students should be able to do after a short amount of time. It will take more time to get used to what the passive voice is than how to create sentences using it.
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GRAMMAR TIP: What Is Passive Voice?
The passive voice is a grammatical construction (a "voice") in which the subject of a sentence or clause denotes the recipient of the action (the patient) rather than the performer (the agent). In the English language, the English passive voice is formed with an auxiliary verb (usually be or get) plus a participle (usually the past participle) of a transitive verb. For example, "Caesar was stabbed by Brutus" uses the passive voice. The subject denotes the person (Caesar) affected by the action of the verb. The counterpart to this in active voice is, "Brutus stabbed Caesar", in which the subject denotes the doer, or agent, Brutus. A sentence featuring the passive voice is sometimes called a passive sentence, and a verb phrase in passive voice is sometimes called a passive verb.
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Passive Voice Test
Passive Voice Test
This is a test on Passive voice and Present Simple vs Present continous. Basicaly it is a test aimed to evaluate grammar, but there's also  an exercise on grammar and reading at first. You ca ...
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Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
Hotels: Problems and Solutions (PPT Based on Natural English Textbook)
Hotels: Problems and Solutions (PPT Based on Natural English Textbook)
This ppt is based on Natural English textbook, pre-intermediate. It includes:- pronunciation (-ed-); -Passive Present and Past Revision; - a small intro to the Reading section: different types of ...
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Pre-Intermediate
Passive: Examples of Tense Shift
Passive: Examples of Tense Shift
The table includes examples of tense shift for the passive in English. This table is intended as a reminder fur successful mastering of the passive forms. The table includes an active sentence and ...
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Pre-Intermediate Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced Exam Level
Passive Voice Presentation
Passive Voice Presentation
MS Power Point presentation. The topic is Passive Voice - Present Simple and Past Simple. In this presentation it is shown how to form Passive Voice using these tenses, basic structure, example s ...
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Elementary
Grammar Test
Grammar Test
A grammar test. Contents: • Verbal tenses • Conditional Clauses • Wish clauses • Reported Speech • Passive Voice • The Causative 1 Write the verbs in brackets into ...
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Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
Passive Voice: Present and Past Worksheet
Passive Voice: Present and Past Worksheet
This is a very simple worksheet for teaching the passive voice.Students are asked to rewrite the sentences given using the passive voice and underline the correct option.The answer key is included.
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Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
Miscellanea 4
Miscellanea 4
Four activities about conditional clauses, passive voice, reported speech and verbal tenses. The first activity is about reported speech. Students will transform the sentences from direct speech t ...
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Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
Passive Causative Lesson Plan for TKT
Passive Causative Lesson Plan for TKT
In case you are about to take TKT practical, here's one example of a real Lesson Plan. It contains template, language analysys, stages, slides (you can download the actual power point at 4shared), ...
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Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
Miscellanea 3
Miscellanea 3
Three activities about conditional clauses, passive voice and reported speech. You can use them to revise these grammar points. The first activity is about conditional clauses. Students will compl ...
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Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
Causative Form
Causative Form
Students find difficulties when learning this structures. Here you have some explanation and exercises. I hope they will understand the use of the causative form with have+object+past participle o ...
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Pre-Intermediate
Get and Have - Causative Use
Get and Have - Causative Use
This is a worksheet for teaching have and get in a passive structure at intermediate level. There's a brief explanation followed by two different activities to go with it. The answer key is included.
rated by 12 teachers

Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
Miscellanea 2
Miscellanea 2
Three activities about conditional clauses, passive voice and reported speech. You can use them to revise these grammar points. The first activity is about conditional clauses. Students will compl ...
rated by 7 teachers

Intermediate
Miscellanea 1
Miscellanea 1
Three activities about conditional clauses, passive voice and reported speech. You can use them to revise these grammar points. The first activity is about conditional clauses. Students will write ...
rated by 5 teachers

Intermediate
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