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 is a "rephrasing" worksheet aimed at students of Bachiller. It includes the following constructions: passive (two obects, passive of reporting verbs), reported speech, conditionals (four type ...
This worksheet focuses on the Passive Voice given certain information. When doing the passive voice with advanced classes, I like to challenge them a bit with a guided practice worksheet that revi ...
This worksheet provides extensive practice of basic passives, including a brief explanations and several tasks in which students complete sentences using the present simple of the passive, complet ...
Students love mysteries, so here is an interesting text for practising the Past Simple Passive. Even though only one tense is practised, the task cannot be completed automatically. It is a bit cha ...
This is a complete lesson on active and passive. It shows how these two voices differ in form and meaning. It also includes the review of the verb 'to be', a number of examples, steps taken when t ...
In this worksheet students are asked to rewrite sentences without changing the meaning. Thrgough this process students should recognize whether sentences are active or passive, then to change them ...
This is a worksheet for a pre-intermediate/elementary student who had just been acquainted with Passive voice in present simple. This is a "fill in the blanks" worksheet with 2 exercises on affirm ...
Many stative passive verbs are followed by prepositions other than by. Very often the students have difficulties in choosing an appropriate preposition. The following worksheet contains the list o ...
This is just a simple transformation activity which my students always find extremely useful, understanding forms and tenses. Use it in further practice stage of the passive voice. Just use the sl ...
"Learn and Practise Passive Voice" is a worksheet which is presented through a rule that is followed by a drill. The exercises are peculiarly chosen to practise each level of use. The worksheet is ...
Hello busy teachers! For those who love having fun with students during a movie night, I'm uploading my activities for the wonderful movie '500 days of summer' with Zooey Dechannel and Joseph Gord ...
If lower intermediate students need revision on the structures they have been learning since the beginning of the year, they can try this worksheet. They will revise the following structures: rep ...
This worksheet contains cards for practising the Passive Voice. Students should ask questions in the Passive Voice to guess what is on the picture, e.g. 'What is it made of?', 'What is it used for ...
It's an exercise to practise the use of the passive voice. The students must first identify the pictures and once that's done, they can make sentences orally using the verbs and the name of the pl ...
A very steady study about the differences between It and There with explanations, examples and exercises helping students with CAE and CPE levels. You have to crack a book sometimes in o ...
Some rules to form the passive in English. It can be used while explaining the passive to the students of the intermediate and upper-intermediate levels. This worksheet is supposed to be given to ...
The main grammar focus of this worksheet is Active / Passive Voices of English verbs. This worksheet can be used as a hand-out for individual or group work to increase Intermediate students&rsquo ...
Another worksheet of the kind. Here irregular verbs are presented in past simple, past perfect and passive voice. Have a good time practicing irregulars ;)
A transformation exercise from the active voice to the passive. The original sentences are in a variety of tenses and some contain modals. I have included some questions too, because I find pupils ...
This is my first worksheet to practice passive voice. It contains three types of exercises of general practice. For pre- and intermediate students. Have a good day )
This activity includes two newspaper articles. One brings arguments against the use of noisy vuvuzelas during the worlcup and the other one gives arguments in favour of them.
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