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Complete the following sentences using Passive Voice. Use the
verb in brackets.
Passive Voice
The greatest diversity of wild cotton species __________ (find)
Affirmative
in Mexico.
Object + verb to be (in
Leather ____________________ (use) to make various goods
Present or Past) + verb
including footwear, automobile seats, clothing and furniture.
(in Past Participle) +
complement
Steel ________________ (know) in antiquity and
________________ (produce) in bloomeries. X
Examples:
Wood ___________________ (find) in the stems and roots
Present: This table is
of trees and other woody plants.X
made of wood.
Past: The telephone was 1. _____________ (make) in the region of Syria
The first glass
invented in 1876 by
around 5000BC.
Alexander G. Bell.
Metal __________________ (find) in the Earth's crust in the
Negative
pure, free elemental form.
Object + verb to be (in
Rubber __________________ (harvest) mainly in the form of
Present or Past) + not +
the latex from the rubber tree or others.X
verb (in Past Participle)
+ complement
Parkesine ______________________ (consider) the first man-
made plastic. The plastic material ___________________(patent)
Examples:
by Alexander Parkes, in Birmingham, England in 1856.X
Present: iPhones are
not manufactured in
the USA.
Past: Glass was not
used before 5000 BC.
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Yes/No Questions 2. Classifying
Verb to be (in Present Use the verbs in the correct form to complete the text
or Past) + object + verb
(in Past Participle) + How is glass made?
complement
COOL TURN HEAT MAKE REFFER
Examples:
Glass is 1_________from liquid sand. Ordinary sand is
Present: Is coffee only 2_________at a temperature of 1700 °C. After it is molten and
grown in Colombia? 3_________, it gains a different structure. But it doesn’t matter
Past: Were washing how much you cool the sand, it is never 4__________ into a
machines created in solid. Instead, it becomes a kind of frozen liquid 5_________by
Europe? scientists as amorphous solid.

Wh-Questions MIX BE HEAT

Wh-word + verb to be (in In a commercial glass plant, sand 6______ 7______ with waste
Present or Past) + object + glass (from recycling collections), soda ash (sodium carbonate),
verb (in Past Participle) + and limestone (calcium carbonate) and 8_______ in a furnace.
Complement + ?
CALL ADD
Examples:
Present: What are cell The soda reduces the sand's melting point, which helps to
phones made of? save energy during manufacture, but it has an unfortunate
Past: When were the drawback: it produces a kind of glass that would dissolve
Egyptian pyramids in water! The limestone is 9_________ to stop that happening.
built? The end-product is 10_______ soda-lime-silica glass. It's the
ordinary glass we can see all around us.
VOCABULARY

Plastic
3. Generalizing
Steel
According to the PPT, write about two of your favorite goods
Wood
one from the past and one from the present.
Glass
Fabric
Object’s name: _____________________
Cotton
(PAST)Sentence__________________________________________
Leather
______________________________________________________
Iron
Object’s name: _____________________
Silver
(PRESENT) Sentence: ____________________________________
Rubber
_______________________________________________________
Paper
Metal
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