The Passive

Voice
Teacher: Omirbolat Albina
 In Today’s lesson:

•present the passive;

•practice the Present Simple of the passive;
•practice the Past Simple of the passive.
 Remember!
The sentence
Active Voice structure changes if
we start the sentence
Lot’s of tourists visit the Acropolis. with the object of the
active sentence as the
verb object subject.
subject

The Acropolis is visited by lots of tourists.

Passive Voice
The theory of the Passive Voice
We use passive forms when we don t know who did the
action.
e.g The window was broken an hour ago.
We use the passive voice form when we are interested is
what happens not who it is done by.
e.g His watch was stolen in the street.
To form the passive verb from we need the verb to be and the
past participle of the main verb.
The subjects of the active sentence becomes the agent ( the
person doing the action) and is introduced with by. The
passive sentences gives emphasis to the action rather the
person who did it.
Look at the formation of the Passive
voice in present and Past simple
tences.
Shyla is excited
to be friends
with all of you!
Shyla is excited
to be friends
with all of you!
 Homework:
• Remember the passive
voice rule.

•Student’s book: p 66,

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