PASSIVE VOICE PRACTICE (I): ONE OBJECT

1. Choose the correct form of the verb to complete the text:

LANGUAGE HOUSE

A new reality show is being shown / is been shown on television. It is about a group of
young people who locked / are locked inside a house. Every day they are taught / is
taught English for six hours by a group of different teachers. At the end of every two
weeks, they take / are taken an English exam.
The contestants with the lowest marks are thrown out / are being thrown out of the
school. From time to time the contestants visit / are visited by a famous English speaking
person. Last week they were visited / visited by the actor Orlando Bloom. The winner of
this reality show will be given / will been given a free trip for four people to New York
and London.

2. Fill in the gap with the suitable passive form of the verbs in brackets:

- A new house _________ (build) next month

- His two cars _________ (sell) by Peter recently
- The glasses ________ (put) on the table yesterday
- The animal ________ (feed) yesterday while I was watching TV
- The house ________ (paint) the week before
- English ________ (study) right now
- All the food ________ (just/steal)
- Cars can’t ________ (park) here
- This watch has to ________ (mend)
- French _______ (speak) by many people in Canada
- Sue ______ (offer) a new job next summer

3. Put the verbs in brackets into passive. Make sure you use the correct
tense:
- When we arrived, we found that the class ______________ (cancel) some time earlier
- I ______________ (tell) many times by my doctor that I must relax some more
- Relaxation classes ______________ (hold) every afternoon next week
- At this very moment, my brother _______________ (interview) for a new job
- The results of the competition _____________ (announce) yesterday
- We think the new sports centre ________________ (open) by the headmaster next week
- Oh, no. Look! The swimming pool ________________ (close). We can’t go swimming
today
- The ambulance broke down while my brother ______________ (take) to hospital
- Students ______________ (give) information about stress busters last month
3. Rewrite the sentences in the passive voice:
- J.R.R. Tolkien wrote The Lord of the Rings
- ___________________________________________________________________

- Channel 5 will broadcast a special news programme tonight

- ___________________________________________________________________

- The Chinese government has launched a new rocket

- ___________________________________________________________________

- The accountant usually does my taxes

- ___________________________________________________________________

- A private construction company built the sports stadium

- ___________________________________________________________________

- A group of Russian students are visiting the school

- ___________________________________________________________________

4. Which sentences are grammatically correct? Correct those that aren’t:

a) Many computers made in China
b) Usually, smartphones are not allow in exams
c) The word “flash drive” are used more than “pen drive”
d) Blue light is produced by computer screens
e) Millions of dollars spend on videogames every year
f) Young people download all sorts of apps
g) Thousands of packages are send in the post every day
h) Text messages are often wrote very fast

5. Change the sentences from active to passive:

a) We take breakfast to the guest’s rooms
b) We aren’t filling the pool until July
c) We didn’t clean the bedrooms yesterday
d) No one carried the guest’s bags to her room
e) Someone saw a mouse in the kitchen
f) The hotel doesn’t accept credit cards
g) The secret police arrested Pete yesterday
h) More and more people are studying Spanish nowadays
i) The town council have just inaugurated the new park
j) When are they going to build the new theatre?