PASSIVE VOICE I.

Fill in the sentences with the correct form of the passive: 1 Please wait in the lounge while your room ________(clean). 2 From next week, you ________ (expect) to arrive at work on time. 3 Too much money ________ (spend) last year on personal expenses. 4 Most of the pollution in city centers ________ (cause) by traffic jams. 5 Around 500,000 ________ (steal) from a bank in London this afternoon. 6 Next year over 2,000,000 mobile phones ________ (make) in China. 7 Kill Bill ________ (direct) by Quentin Tarantino.
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II. Complete the jokes by putting the verbs in brackets in the correct passive: 1. A teacher asked her class to write an essay about a football match. A minute later all the students were writing except one boy. The teacher looked at his paper. It said, The game .. (stop) in the first minute by rain. 2. Why ..the tennis player .(give) a cigarette lighter at the end of the competition? I dont know Because he had lost all his matches 3. Mum, do all fairy tales begin with <Once upon a time>? No, darling. Some start with : < Sorry Im so late, darling, I (detain) at the office> III. Complete these jokes by putting the verbs given in the correct perfect passive form: 1. Why are you putting a bandage over your pay cheque? Because my salary just. (cut) 2. A man went to a hospital for a new brain. He was given a choice between two brains an engineers for 30,000 $ or a politicians for 600,000 $. Does that mean the politicians brain is much better? Not exactly, said the doctor. The politicians brain never ..(use). 3. I ..(ask) to get married hundreds of times. Oh! Who by? My parents 4. A man was visiting his friend in hospital. You ..(miss) by everybody at the factory. Thats nice Yes. Yesterday the boss came to me and said:<Whats happened to whats-hisname?>