The passive voice can be taught in a wide variety of ways. Examples can be given. Exercises can be used. Games can be organized. Worksheets can be assigned... and sometimes, the best way to teach the passive voice is just to use it in sentences like the ones above. If you want to make sure that your class really understands what the passive voice means - and where it does and doesn’t make sense to use it - you’ll probably want to employ a combination of all these teaching tactics.
Teaching the passive isn’t as simple as rehearsing with sample sentences - after all, the modern approach to ESL teaching emphasizes a balance of grammar, reading, speaking, and listening. To make sure your students really understand the passive voice, it’s important to get them involved in all these activities, until their knowledge of the passive is grounded in a variety of experiences, and they feel confident about producing it on their own. The question is, where can you find exercises for all four learning categories?
That’s what BusyTeacher.org is here for! Our 246 passive voice worksheets will ensure that you never run out of ways to teach the passive, no matter how many class periods you have to spend on it. No matter if you’re preparing your lesson plans weeks in advance, or putting together some last-minute exercises before you rush off to class (hey, it happens to all of us), our passive voice worksheets will prepare you to tackle the passive voice from all angles.
Some of our 246 passive voice worksheets help you create role playing games and other high-energy activities. Others invite your students to read and answer questions about stories. Still others offer real-world examples of the passive voice in English writing and speaking. And of course, you’ve also got plenty of introductory fill-in-the-blank and multiple-choice passive voice worksheets to choose from.
Working through a unit on countries, or holidays, or movies? BusyTeacher.org has got you covered! Our worksheets draw on a variety of themes for inspiration, and you’re sure to find some that fit into any topic of conversation. And whether your students are still working through ESL level one, or are approaching fluency at level five, we’ve got worksheets adapted for their level - along with many that can easily be adaptable to any ESL level.
All these worksheets have been created by real ESL teachers all over the world - and they’ve ended up on BusyTeacher.org because they were hits in the classroom. When you choose a passive voice worksheet from BusyTeacher.org, you never have to wonder if it’s workable or not, because it’s already been proven to work. Have a worksheet of your own to share with our community? Just click the “Submit a worksheet” button at the bottom of this page.
As you browse our library of 246 passive voice worksheets, you’ll notice that you can preview all of them as thumbnail images, so you can quickly single out the ones that look especially interesting. Once you’ve found some you like, just download them and print them out - they’re totally free to use and share as you like. So scroll on down and take a look - we’ve got a passive voice worksheet for every occasion!
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This ws is useful with the introduction and first steps in passive voice. Especially it is useful for the not doing well students. The tasks are easy. This will give the class as a whole some prac ...
This is a 2-page worksheet for teaching the passive voice at pre-intermediate level. The first page is basically just a study sheet with simple and complete explanations and it is followed b ...
Seven short passages on Seven Wonders of the World. Students have to complete the information with the given verbs. They have to use active or passive simple past forms. Then, they are expected to ...
It's a good poem to learn irregular verbs. The three forms of the verbs are structured in a verse. It's an easy way to remember them. This worksheet is very good for students of different levels f ...
This is a grammar worksheet for 7th or 8th grade students. It contains thirty-nine sentences. The task is use the past simple passive voice and complete the sentences with the given verbs. I hope ...
This passive worksheet contains 35 questions of active-to-passive exercises in various tenses. Each sentence contains a simple construction of a subject, a verb and an object without adverbs of ti ...
I made this worksheet when my students were learning about inventions. They watch the video about 1001 inventions made by Arabs and fill in the blanks or answer the questions. After watching the v ...
This is an example of a project that students can create to practice tourist information. Students need to invent a monument of their own creation and explain it to the class. They need to invent ...
This worksheet is to practice different tenses, passive voice and some other structures. Cut the table out, divide the rectangles off and distribute them to your students. They are supposed to say ...
A set of grammar tasks to revise different grammar points learned in the previous level (3): supply the right options of varied tenses and linkers+report 3 direct statements +change to passive voi ...
The present PP presentation provides teachers help in explaining the form and usage of the passive in English. It was compiled for students at pre-intermediate level (to the course book New Total ...
The worksheet is aimed to facilitate students practising the present simple and past simple in the passive voice (a) by being given clues about what was done last last week in Tom's house (b) by h ...
This is a pretty simple worksheet for teaching or revising the structure have something done at pre-intermediate or intermediate level. There's a brief explanation followed by an activity in ...
This is a pretty simple worksheet for teaching or revising the passive voice at pre-intermediate level. There are two different activities in which students are asked to complete the sentence ...
This is a worksheet for pre-intermediate and intermediate students for filling the blanks with conditional 0 or 1 and some modal verbs, and turning active sentences into passive ones. It's 30 minu ...
You can use this worksheet in a class for 5th grade students to teach them how to use the passive voice. It contains a little chart explaining the changes you have to do for the active voice to th ...
Passive theory and exercises worksheet. Excellent for new content development lessons and very good studying aid for your students at home. They will understand the usage of the passive voice only ...
This is a worksheet that has a little explanation about the use and structure of the passsive voice and some exercises. This could be an easy way to explain and practice the use of the passive ...
This power point presentation is about countries and their peculiarities. Students will be able to practice comparatives, grab bag information and cultural knowledge. It will also be useful for 5 ...
You will find a variety of gap-filling exercises in this worksheet related to active and passive voice sentences. It is aimed at intermediate level students and the topics are tourism-realted. Thi ...
For this game you need to work a little bit on culture first. Use the material to prepare cards to be put on the board. You can first ask your students to write sentences in Passive Voice out of t ...
The individual work on the topic of the passive voice. It contains just one task, i.e., to change the given active sentences to the passive ones. Sentences aren't difficult; created in order to ch ...
An oral activity devised to practice passive forms. Present perfect, past simple and future passives are practised in a role play situation. A rich boss phones the new maid at lunch time to ask wh ...
TOEFL (Test Of English as a Foreign Language) based exercises of passive voice. Fill in the blanks activity + multiple choice activity. In the second activity a question is given: what is needed i ...
This worksheet is focused on practising passive voice. It can be used as a short revision excercise or as a test. The worksheet includes 10 active sentences which have to be rewritten in passive. ...
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