ENGLISH II FOR B.A.

Weekly activity guide 4

UNIT 4
CONTENTS
● PASSIVE VOICE
● DESCRIBING PEOPLE
● STAGES OF A MEETING
● ASKING FOR AND GIVING OPINIONS. AGREEING AND DISAGREEING.

OBJECTIVES
● To talk about objects and inventions.
● To describe people
● To recognize details from a listening text
● To ask for and provide opinions
● To use specific expressions based on a particular text
DESCRIPTION
In this unit, you’ll talk about inventions and objects. You’ll also learn how to
describe people as well as ask and provide opinions.

PROCEDURES
Grammar
1. Passive voice. Watch the video and pay attention the structures
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0ZbGVZLvKw&ab_channel=EspressoEnglish

2. Now work with the following links and check your answers.
https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/passive/exercises?simple-present

Exercises on Passive Voice - simple-past :: Simple-past (ego4u.com)

3. Finally, solve the exercise below

invented

educated

discovered

woke
played

recorded

made

sang

Isent see

Dont build

Vocabulary and Listening

Describing people and objects

1
 disgusting
talkative selfish
Generous selfish

friendly disgusting

Lazy disgusting
funny borred
smart silly

shy friendly

1. Listen to people describing their colleagues. Circle the words or phrases they
use. (track 23) 
 
about 30 years old       good at languages   sense of humour 
ambitious                    hard-working          shy       tall     talkative 
smart                          friendly     mediun-height    wears a suit 
 
2 Put the words in the previous exercise into the following groups. 

 
 
 3. Listen to a sales director Charles Ward, Laura Mancini and her team discussing the ndew
Unisporsts designs. Mark the sentences T (true) or F (false).

Assessment