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Activity objective:

To practice the use of passive voice and modals of deduction.


Activity requirements:
Use of:
 Passive voice in all tenses
 Modals of deduction: might, can’t, must
1. Read the following news headings:
Pay attention to the way it is written and the reason for it, discuss why news
headings are presented this way.

 
1. The first one is talking about a kid who found a winning lottery ticket, the
passive voice is the kid,
2. The second one is talking about a woman(what woman, who knows)got a
role in a movie(what movie, who knows) after meeting her celebrity
crush(what celebrity, who knows)
3. A man(who knows) was invited to play soccer with a famous soccer
club(what club who knows)
1. Rewrite the headings to full sentences using the correct tense of
passive voice. Add articles, prepositions and any other necessary word.
1. Kid found the wining lottery ticked on the Street
2. After meeting her celebrity crush, woman get a role in a movie
3. After been seen a man get the opportunity to play soccer in a famous soccer club

1. Record a 3 – 5 minute video where you tell what you think might
have happened in each heading. You should give general ideas about each heading
and last 1 – 1:30 minutes in each. Use modals of deduction.

1. Choose one of the headings in exercise 1. Write a 500 – 700 word


news report, that is, expand your ideas from exercise 3. Your news report should
include passive voice and modals of deduction.
One day a woman had a meeting with her favorite actor in the world but no only her favorite
actor but her secret crush. In the meeting, the woman found the way to have a secret meeting
with the actor to talk about thing, but an unexpected thig happened, the actor liked the woman
so much that she got a role in a movie. The turn of thing was really unexpected, could she
might impressed the actor with her look or her voice or even with her personality, this woman
with only a meeting got a role in a movie this is maybe the most important news in the celebrity

could you imagine a woman is given a role after meeting her favorite actor.as I said before this
might be news of the year in the celebrity academy, might this woman be the rookie of the
year. Might this woman have the requirements to win an academy award, who know but one
thing is true this is the most amazing thing I have seen this year. Maybe she will be the next
scarlet Johansson of the country, we still do not know her name but that not important, might
she be the next big star of the academy who know.
Will she might create a new era of actor.
The only important thing in this world is the creation of a new age in the movies.

1. Identify the passive voice in AT LEAST 5 sentences from your news report in
exercise 4. Write the passive voice in bold and write the tense in which they are.
 Example: “A winning lottery ticket was found on the street by a kid.
–  Simple past.
 a woman had a meeting with his favorite actor
 woman found the way to have a secret meeting
 , the actor liked the woman so much that she got a role in a movie
 a woman is given a role after meeting her favorite actor

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