PASSIVE VOICE

Active or passive?
Two million euros was stolen from a bank in the centre of London yesterday
The police are looking for two male suspects.
Several people were held hostage.
Three people were injured.
The two robbers drove away in a blue car.
The car was found near a police station.
Two men have been arrested in connexion with the bank robbery.
Both men were carrying arms.
The money hasn’t been found.

Passive Voice. Tenses.

Hundreds of mobile phones …………………………….……………………….. (steal) every day.
Somebody’s phone …………………………………………….…………………….. (steal) right now.
My phone ………………………………………………..…………….. (steal) !
My phone was ………………………….……………….. (confiscate) by one of my teachers last week
Mobile phones must …………………………………….…….. (switch) off during take off and landing.
He was furious because his phone ……………………………………….……… (steal) again.

1. Choose the correct tense of the passive

1. These gates /never /close

2. This bridge /build/ in 1923

3. He /not see/ since the accident

4. The war in Syria /should /stop

5. They / should /punish / for this

6. The book /not translate / into French yet

7. If I were the boss / you / all /fire

8. When we got there/ they /interview /an English reporter

9. Don’t worry, your car /repair/ as we speak

10. I /teach/ to be polite to everyone

11. What time /deliver /the parcels

12. Why /I/not tell/ you were coming?

13. the money/find/yet?

14. When the police got there/ they/already/take/ to hospital

15. I / offer/ a job in a Japanese restaurant

 2. Active to passive
1. They make these phones in Japan.
2. They found the guns in a locker at the station.
3. They didn’t find them at the airport.
4. They are repairing my car.
5. They have never broken into our school.
6. They found the body.
7. They have lost the money
8. We will fire you
9. They had taken him to hospital
10.They are building a new hotel
11.We can’t repair your watch
12.They would have killed him if they had found him stealing

Two objects.
They offered her a job in a British company.
A job was offered to her…/She was offered a job.

14.They will give runners free bottles of water.

15. They gave him the prize
16. They told me to wait here.
17. Nobody gave me anything to eat.

Causative (Have/get + past participle)

They are painting our classroom/ We are having our classroom painted
I’m going to get/have my hair cut.
You should have/get your eyes tested
I had my car repaired there.
We’ll have the classroom painted blue.
We are having our classroom painted this week.

3. Write sentences using the correct form of have/get something done (2 marks)

1. Our house hasn’t been decorated yet.

2. They check the oil in Sarah´s car at the garage every month

3. Did they dye your hair at that new hairdresser’s?

4. A photographer is taking our photo this afternoon

4. Rewrite the following sentences.

1. You must clean this room before you go out.
This room…
2. They were washing the streets when I went out this morning.
The streets…
3. They hadn’t cleared the tables when I left.
The tables…
4. The employees will bring up the issue during the meeting.
The issue…
5. They say women are smarter than men.
Women…
6. They are interviewing the candidates in those rooms.
The candidates…
7. Where did they hide the money?
Where…
8. They shouldn’t have removed that sign.
That sign…
9. Somebody has sent Mike an anonymous letter.
Mike…

5. Passive or active. Complete with the correct form of the verbs in brackets

1. In the UK more than six million electrical items …………………………..…… (throw)

away every year.
2. Air pollution ……………………………….. (cause) more than one hundred thousand deaths
last year.
3. The story of Adidas ……………………………………………(begin) 1920 in a small village
in Germany when 20-year-old Adolf ‘Adi’ Dassler …………………………… (make) his
first pair of running shoes by hand.
4. My cousin Phil …………………………………….. (arrest) twice in the last two months.
5. Laptops should ………………………………………… ( switch) off before landing
6. A helicopter ……………………………………. (send) as soon as they heard the news
7. The two men who ………………………………. (break) into our flat
…………………………… (catch) at last!
8. Nowadays, over 75 per cent of British teenagers ……………………………….. (own) a
mobile phone. As a result, most schools ……………………………………….. (allow)
students to have their mobile phones with them in class, but they must
…………………………………… (switch) off.
9. According to psychologists, the average person………………………………… (lie) to
another person once or twice a day.
10. Jai-Alai is the fastest ball game in the world. A small, very hard ball
…………………………….. (throw) at a granite wall at speeds of around 180 miles per
hour, using specially-made baskets, or ‘cestas’ which …………………………………
(attach) to the players’ hands.
11. That song ……………………………………. (write) by the Beatles
12. This stadium ……………………………………… (never use) for concerts.
13. The euro ………………………………………….. (introduce) in Spain in 2002.
14. I ………………………………………… (wake) up by a car alarm last night.
15. I´m sure the tournament ………………………………. (win) by a Spanish player this year.
16. They ………………………………………………….. (release) the album next month
17. ……….………….……………………………………. (your car/ever/steal)?

6. Passive with say/expect/know/think/believe…

1. People expect the government to ban all tobacco products
2. They think he killed kill his first wife
3. We know smoking causes cancer
4. People think teenagers imitate the bad habits of adults
5. They told him to stop outside the bank
6. They say he is buried here.