PİRİ REİS UNIVERSITY Week 5

Main Course Supplementary Materials

Gamma (8 Pre-Intermediate) Regular
Unit 10C

PRESENT PASSIVE

Exercise 1: Read the sentences and decide if they are Active (A) or Passive (P).

In the United States,

_____ 1. … about 17 car accidents are reported to the police each day.
_____ 2. … 115 people die in road accidents every day.
_____ 3. … someone is killed in a road accident every 13 minutes.
_____ 4. … nearly 1 million cars are stolen each year.
_____ 5. … Times Square in Manhattan, New York, is visited by nearly 35 million people
each year.
_____ 6. … about 470 babies are born every hour.
_____ 7. … the average American family uses about 1500 liters of water.
_____ 8. … about 70% of water is used indoors.
_____ 9. … Americans eat an average of 3800 calories per day.

_____10…..20 million hamburgers are eaten each day.

_____11……the average American drinks 600 cans of soda per year.

Exercise 2: Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the verbs in parentheses.

1. BMWs _____________ (produce) in Germany.

2. She _____________ (look after) her grandson well.

3. ____milk _____________ (deliver) every day?

4. The French _____________ (eat) over 200 million frogs each year.

5. Dogs _____________ (use) to protect property, to guide blind people, or to alert people to
danger.

6. This room _____________ (not/use) very often.

7. Over two billion people _____________ (speak) the English language.

8. Portuguese _____________ (speak) in Brazil.

9. On all flights, your bags _____________ (check) by security cameras.

10. A lot of men _____________ (enjoy) football.

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Main Course Supplementary Materials
Gamma (8 Pre-Intermediate) Regular
Unit 10C

11. Heathrow Airport _____________ (use) by more than 1.5 million people every year.

12. ____ the children _____________ (clean) their rooms every weekend?

13. Millions of e-mails _____________ (send) around the world every day.

PAST PASSIVE

Exercise 3: Put the verbs in brackets into past simple passive.

Two men ….. were seen ……. (see) breaking into a house in my street last night. The police
…………………………. (call) and they arrived very quickly. One man ……………………
(catch) immediately. The other escaped, but he ………………………. (find) very soon. Both
men ………………………………… (take) to the police station where they ………………....
………………………. (question) separately by a police officer. The two men ………………
………………………. (charge) with burglary.

Exercise 4: Find and correct the mistakes below.

1. He surprised by the loud noise.

2. They were ate dinner at six o’clock.

3. Was your car fix?

4. This photo was take by my uncle.

5. Who was cooked dinner?

6. When did the airplane invented?

7. He was watched his favorite TV show.

8. Robert was bite by a dog.

9. They were interview by a reporter.

10. Pluto discovered in 1930.

11. Why did the party cancelled?

12. I was really enjoyed my holiday last summer.

13. My friend wasn’t careful. She was fell off her bicycle.

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Main Course Supplementary Materials
Gamma (8 Pre-Intermediate) Regular
Unit 10C

14. The room cleaned this morning.

15. When was the story write?

Exercise 5: Match part A and B to make correct sentences using the past simple passive.

Part A Part B

1. ‘Oliver Twist’ (write) a. Georges Bizet

2. ‘Carmen’ (compose) b. Alexander the Great

3. Alexandria (found) c. Christopher Columbus

4. America (discover) d. Charles Dickens

e.g. America was discovered by Christopher Columbus

1) ________________________________________________________________

2) ________________________________________________________________

3) ________________________________________________________________

PRESENT AND PAST PASSIVE

Exercise 6: Rewrite these sentences, putting the verbs in the passive.

1. The machines / make / in Scotland. (present)

2. The parcel / post / yesterday. (past)

3. Cheese / make / from milk. (present)

4. The children / give / some food. (past)

5. The house / paint / every year. (present)

6. Several people / hurt / in an accident last night. (past)