PRACTICE 1 – UNIT 6

Members:

✓ Chimú Flores Favian

✓ Crisologo Calderón Doris

✓ García Ávila Carlos

✓ Guanilo Chiroque Carlos

1. Complete the sentences with the correct form of the passive.

a) One of most famous speeches ever made WAS GIVEN (give) on August 28, 1963.

b) It WAS DELIVERED (deliver) by Martin Luther King.

c) 200, 000 listeners WERE MOVED (move) to tears by the speech.

d) Since that day thousands of people HAVE BEEN INSPIRED (inspire) by its message.

e) The speech WAS DESCRIBED (describe) as a masterpiece of rhetoric.

f) The phrase ´I have a dream´ WAS REPEATED (repeat) eight times and the speech IS

OFTEN KNOWN (often/know) by this name.

g) The speech and its message WILL BE REMEMBERED (remember) for a long time.

2. Decide if the verb in the sentences is active or passive. Then complete the sentences

with the active or passive form of the past simple.

a) He HAS REWRITTEN (rewrite) his speech several times.

b) I WAS GIVEN (give) a watch for my birthday.

c) They WERE FOLLOWED (followed) without their knowledge.

d) We were lost and ASKED (ask) the way at a petrol station.

e) The book WAS FOUND (find) in an unexpected place.

f) She SPOKE (speak) in a very loud voice.