Colegio Paula Frassinetti
Avilés, Asturias.
REINFORCEMENT PASSIVE VOICE 3º ESO
Elaborar frases en voz pasiva en Presente Simple, Present Perfect Simple, Past Simple, Future
Simple or a Modal Verb.
I. Rewrite them in Passive Voice.
1.-Students choose the subject._______________________________________________
2.-Someone wrote an article about sports.______________________________________
3.-Somebody will buy these old books.____________________________________
4.-Other students must design the page.________________________________________
5.- Tim doesn´t draw the pictures._____________________________________________
6.-The girls didn´t take the photographs.________________________________________
7.-They won´t scan the pictures.__________________________________________________
8.-They can´t put the pictures in the pages._________________________________________
9.-They have sent the disc to the printer.___________________________________________
10.-Finally they haven´t sold the magazine._________________________________________
II. Complete the sentences with a verb in a Passive Voice.
1.-People speak Spanish and English in Costa Rica.
Spanish and English…
2.-They usually sell apples and oranges at the greengrocer’s.
Apples and oranges…
3.-They made these clothes of synthetic fibre.
These clothes…
4.-We will recycle all this amount of paper.
All this amount of paper…
5.-They didn´t reuse some electronic parts.
Some electronic parts…
6.-They shouldn´t throw the rubbish into the right container.
The rubbish…
III. Answer these Questions using the Passive Voice.
1.-What is a chair made of? WOOD
A chair…
2.-Where is a magazine printed? FACTORY
A magazine…
3.-What is a bag made of? PLASTIC
A…
4.-Where is rubbish thrown? RUBBISH BIN
5.-What is done with electrical parts in good conditions? REUSE
6.-What things are recycled? PAPER, GLASS AND PLASTIC THINGS
IV. Complete the magazine with the correct verb in the Past Simple Passive.
blow fly destroy hit injure take damage kill throw
Tornado hits Kentucky
On Sunday evening the state of Kentucky in the USA _______________________________
by a huge [Link] in the town of Providence reached over 80 miles an hour. Thirty-two homes
________________________________and a hundred and fourteen ______________
_____________________. Fortunately no one ______________________________________ but
twelve people _____________________________.
Most of these_______________________________to hospitals near Providence but one man
_______________________________ by helicopter to a hospital in Indiana. ‘I’ve never seen such
damage,’ said 52-year-old George Schultz. ‘The roof of the local public school
____________________________off and my car ___________________________________ ten
metres into the air’.
V. Complete the sentences in Passive Past Tense.
1.-The famous painting of the Mona Lisa____________________________in 1956 (damage)
2.-In 79 AD, The Roman city of Pompeii____________________________ by a volcanic explosion
(destroy)
3.-The London Eye_________________________________in 1999. (build)
4.-Princess Diana________________________________in an accident in 1997 (kill)
5.-In 1969, the first moon landing _______________________on TV (see)
6.-In Ancient Greece, the Olympic flame ______________________________into the Olympic Stadium
by a Greek athlete. (carry)
VI. Write questions for the answers in the passive voice using the data from the exercise above.
A.-When___________________________? A.-How__________________________?
B.-In 1956 B.-In a car accident?
A.-How____________________________? A.-What__________________________?
B.-By a volcanic explosion B.-The first moon landing.
A.-What____________________________? A.-When__________________________?
B.-The Olympic flame B.-In 1999.
VII. Completa las frases con los verbos entre paréntesis. Utiliza el Present Simple en pasiva.
1. The homework ....IS CHECKED..... (check) at the beginning of every lesson.
2. ................ the presents ................ (wrap) before Christmas?
3. Knives .................................. (not keep) here.
4. ................ newspapers ................ (sell) here?
5. Spanish .................................. (speak) by millions of people in South America.
VIII. Escribe frases con estas palabras. Utiliza el Past Simple en pasiva.
1. Paul / teach / to cook / by his mother /.
Example: Paul was taught to cook by his mother....
2. the tree / not blow down / by / the wind / .
......................................................................
3. all the concert tickets / sell / yesterday / ?
......................................................................
4. Charles and Abby / not invite / to the party / .
......................................................................
5. the parcel / not deliver / yesterday / .
......................................................................
6. when / the e-mail / send / ?
......................................................................
XIX. Elige la respuesta correcta.
Today, people can shop with their smartphones. Walls 1. are covered / was covered with digital pictures of
supermarket shelves. Customers scan a product with a smartphone and it 2. is added / was added to a virtual
shopping basket. The first “shopping wall” 3. is opened / was opened in an underground station in Seoul,
South Korea in 2012. This underground station 4. is chosen / was chosen because more than 200,000 people
use it every day.
X. Completa las frases. Utiliza el Future Simple en pasiva.
1. What time ................ dinner ................................................ (serve)?
2. I’m sure the problems ........................................................... (solve).
3. I hope the project ........................................................... (complete) by July.
4. I’m afraid the prices ........................................................ (not reduce).
5. ...................... a prize ....................................................... (give) to the student?
