Teacher: Hocin Interchange Book 2

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By the end of this cycle, students will be able to:
❑ use the passive with by (simple past) to discuss
famous landmarks, monuments, and works of art.
 Mickey Mouse,
California

Tokyo
Possible Answer
Yes, I have been to the Disney World in Orlando, Florida. I really
enjoyed it and it was a lot of fun. I would like to go to Disneyland in
California because I have heard that it is very different from the one in
Florida and I would love to experience the difference.
Passive with by (simple past) or the past passive (was/were + past participle)
Active
The Disney brothers founded the company in 1923. Here, the emphasis is on the Disney brothers.
It wasn’t John Smith who founded the
Subject + verb + object company. It was the Disney brothers.
Passive
The company was founded in the Disney brothers in 1923. Here, the emphasis is on the company.
by1923.
The most important fact is that the
Object + was/were + past participle + by + subject company was founded.

The passive is the best way to express an idea when:

The past passive verb is made up of
1. We don’t know who did the action.
was/were + past participle
My house was broken into on Friday.
We don’t always use by to show “who”
2. There is no “doer” of the action. or “what” did the action.
He was killed in an earthquake.
3. The fact is more important than the “doer” of the action.

My dog was run over by a car. A

 was painted

was written
directed
was designed

was won
was seen

were recorded
was played

was given
was released
Stephen Hawking was played by Eddie Redmayne in the 2014 film The Theory of Everyth

100 Years of Solitude was written by Gabriel García Márquez in 1967.

The Empire State Building was designed by the American architect William Lamb.

The first digital HDTV was produced by Woo Paik in 1991.

The first Harry Potter book was written on an old manual typewriter by J. K. Rowling.

Indiana Jones was chosen as the greatest movie character of all time by Empire magazin
lock own soon come
shot wrote who done
Built for the Emperor Shah Jahan’s wife
when she died.

The changing colors of the building

represent the different moods of women.
Hall of Mirrors shows all the riches and power
of France.

The candles caused smoke.

The mirrors rejected the light of the candles,

so fewer candles were used (causing less
smoke damage to the room).
Gaudí thought man-made structures
should reflect nature.

No straight lines were used because

straight lines don’t exist in nature.
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