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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With this quiz you can test your students and you could know what they learned about present simple passive, in your lessons. Also you can test some vocabulary about materials. It contains five it ...
This is the 2nd ws to practise rephrasing. There are two exercises for students to change passive sentences into active ones & reported sentences into direct ones. Thanks Phillip Martin for cl ...
In this worksheet there are two exercises to practise rephrasing. In 1 the students have to rewrite active sentences into passive ones and in 2 they have to change direct sentences into reported s ...
It's the short worksheet which contains tasks according to the video "Hot it's made. Frozen pizza". It has vocabulary, correct order task and simple questions about pizzas. I hope, it will be usef ...
This is a powerpoint presentation that I use to show my students how to work the passive voice in its various tenses and also comparing the passive and active constructions. The powerpoint shows ...
Another worksheet working on active and passive forms. This time it concerns mixed tenses which will mean complete comprehension of each sentence. There are some examples of both forms at the to ...
In this worksheet there are three texts about three famous people. Students have to put the verbs in brackets into the correct form: active or passive, but also into the correct tense. There are ...
This is another worksheet working on the passive voice. There are some examples at the top of the page and all the sentences are in the present simple. Students have to put the verbs into the co ...
This is another worksheet working on the passive voice. There are some examples at the top of the page and all the sentences are in the present perfect. Students have to put the verbs into the c ...
This worksheet is practising the use of the passive voice and all the sentences are in the present continuous. Students have to decide if the sentence is active or passive and then put the verbs ...
This Elvis Presley biography is a good reading practice, as well as a gap-fill exercise where our learners decide whether to use active or passive. There's a song ''Suspicious Minds'' with a link ...
Passive voice explanation and exercise. Passive Voice ( Subject + Present Simple of BE (not) Past Participle ) The passive voice of the Past Simple is formed by adding the Past Simple of BE + Pa ...
Another Snakes and Ladders but this time to practice Passive Voice. Students have to turn the sentences given into the passive voice. The most basic tenses are included . It is completely editable ...
Exercices for grade 8 students. This is a series of different exercises for grade 8 students in Vietnam to practice or revise the language learnt in grade 7 after taking the summer vacation. It's ...
This is a worksheet, suitable for intermediate students,for teaching the passive with past simple. There's a brief explanation at the top of the page followed by a simple activity in which student ...
This is a worksheet I prepared for a musician student of mine. He is a fan of Jeff Buckley and he is currently trying to learn more advanced English in order to improve his listening, singing and ...
A song worksheet based on the hit "Don't give up" by Josh Groban. Student listen to parts of the song and complete five activities that includes listening for detail to fill in gaps, antonyms, wor ...
Students can study or revise the use of the passive voice in English. This worksheet consists of sentences writtten in active voice which students have to transform into passive voice. I hope you ...
it is an easy worksheet to practice the passive voice, students will enjoy the ease of the worksheet, it also gives a brief explanation of the use of the passive, it can be used to introduce or to ...
It is a handout for teens where they have to complete sentences related with the pictures. Also, they have to choose the correct options and make up sentences using keywords. You can use this hand ...
A passive voice test based on the topic of using cars and its effects on the atmosphere. Different tenses of the pasive are evaluated (present simple, simple past, present perfect, simple future, ...
This is a current events activity using the passive voice. Students will read the information and then create passive voice questions and answers for discussion. Two examples are given. It can be ...
This worksheet consists of 2 exercises to revise the active and passive voice. In 1, the students have to rewrite some active sentences into passive ones and in 2 they have to do the opposite. Tha ...
This worksheet is aimed at intermediate students. It contains four texts which describe different types of processes or information: the history of ice-cream, how glass is made, how champagne is p ...
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