The Passive

1) Read the sentences and underline all examples of the passive.1) Shampoo is tested on animals before it is sold in shops. This is because it might be dangerous for humans.2) The rainforests are disappearing, so most newspapers are printed on recycled paper.3) The city of Atlantis has never been found, but many people are still looking for it.4) Football was invented in England and is now played all over the world.5) The Taj Mahal was built in the 17th century but nobody is sure who designed it.

2) Rewrite the sentences using the present passive without by.1) People speak English in Australia.

2) People don’t use this room very often.

3) They are cleaning the classrooms now.

3) Rewrite the sentences using the past passive without by. 1) They postponed the match.

2) Did anyone answer your e-mail?

3) He gave me a test.

4) Turn into the passive:1) The police arrested two thieves

2) In our school a Canadian teaches French .

3) I didn’t break this vase.

4) My sister uses these two dictionaries.

5) The children will do the shopping.

6) Jennie’s mother punished her.

7) Someone has cleaned these 3 rooms.

5) Choose one verb phrase from each pair to fill each space in the text.

a- are feeling i- diedb- are being fed j-was died

c- are being caused k- frightenedd- have caused l- was frightened

e- being hit m- have drivenf- having hit n- have been driven

g- brought o- to takeh- was brought p- to be taken

The Passive

Thailand has a problem with unemployed elephants which (1) ………………………. on to the

streets by the country’s economic crisis and a loss of traditional employment. Many of them

(2) ………………………… by tourists who like (3) ………………………… photographs of

them. Major traffic problems (4) …………………….. by homeless elephants wandering the

streets. Traffic (5) ………………….…. to a standstill one day by a raging bull elephant which

(6) …………….………. by the sounds of motorcycles and cars. Another elephant (7)

………………………… after (8) ……………………by a car in Bangkok last month.