Welcome to online learning

with
Mrs Shahid
 Tuesday 18th May 2021
LO: To make inferences from a text
Grammar – Active and passive voice

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Inference
• What is Inference?

• Inference is where we 'read between the lines' to

gain a greater understanding of what we are
looking at and to reach logical conclusions.
Inference
• Who is in the
picture?
• Is it cold or hot in
the mountains?
• How does the
mountaineer
feel?
• Why has the
mountaineer
chosen to climb
to this location?
Photo courtesy of Andrew E. Larsen (@flickr.com) - granted under creative commons licence - attribution
Inference
• What is
happening in
this picture?
• How does the
child feel about
it?
• Why isn’t the
child wearing a
top?

Photo courtesy of thejbird (@flickr.com) - granted under creative commons licence - attribution
Inference
• Why are these men
playing instruments
outside?
• Why do two of the
men have their
mouths open?
• How does playing
music make them
feel?
• What sort of music
are they playing?

Photo courtesy of Gamma Man (@flickr.com) - granted under creative commons licence - attribution
Inference
• What is the girl
looking at?
• How does she feel
about what she can
see?
• What is the
weather like where
the girl is?

Photo courtesy of nSeika (@flickr.com) - granted under creative commons licence - attribution
Inference
• What is happening
here?
• How can you tell that
the men are putting in
a lot of effort?
• Why does the man at
the back only have
one hand on the rope?
• How can you tell that
these men belong to
a club or group?
• What is the weather
like?

Photo courtesy of Jamie McCaffrey (@flickr.com) - granted under creative commons licence - attribution
 What Does Inference mean?

This means that he is there to help you to pick up ideas from the text that are not always written in the
text itself.

He helps you to do this by getting you to read the text as if you are a detective. You’re not looking for
what is there – you’re looking for what is meant by it. For example, if the text says ‘Jenni’s face was red
– she wrinkled her brow and began to shout’, what could you infer about how Jenni feels?
 Let’s Explore Inference Iggy Questions
Together
Read the extract from Our Teachers Are Superheroes and answer the questions as a
class.
Click on the image to read the text.

Read the rest of the Our Teachers Are Superheroes story here.
Let’s Explore Inference Iggy Questions
Together
Read the extract from Our Teachers Are Superheroes and
answer the questions as a class.
Benji and Freya were good friends because… Tick one.
their parents had made them like each other.
they shared a sense of humour.
their classes often paired up for lessons.
They both wanted the same superpower.
Look at the second paragraph. Explain why the teachers were dressed in this
way.

Give two reasons that Mr Jay might like Benji to choose a

different superpower.

Why do you think that Freya finds Benji annoying

What Are Active and Passive Voice?
Can you write definitions for ‘active’ and ‘passive’ voice?

Active Voice
In an active sentence, the subject performs the action (the verb) to the object.

Passive Voice
In a passive sentence, the thing that would normally be the object gets turned
into the subject through the use of the passive form of the verb. They often
include a prepositional phrase starting with ‘by’.

Do you and your partner agree?

Active or Passive Voice?
Now, sort these sentences into the correct places in the table below:

The plane is boarded by the family. The magician pulled a rabbit from the hat.

Issac threw a ball at the window. Helen practised her recorder every day.

The flowers were grown by my nan. The damage was caused by the storm.

Active The magician pulled a rabbit from the hat.

Issac threw a ball at the window.
Helen practised her recorder every day.

Passive
The plane is boarded by the family.
The damage was caused by the storm.
The flowers were grown by my nan.
Your Turn – Active Sentences
Choose a square to reveal a picture. Write an active sentence about the picture:

? ? ? ?

? ? ? ?

? ?
Changing Sentences
It is possible to change a sentence from active to passive voice, or from passive to
active voice. It is important that you do not change the tense of the sentence. Have
a go at altering these sentences:

On the plain, the lioness chased an antelope.

On the plain, an antelope was chased by the lioness.

Harry ate sandwiches for lunch.

Sandwiches were eaten by Harry for lunch.

The carrots are always eaten by my brother.

My brother always eats the carrots.

Are your new sentences active or passive?

Amazing Active Voice
Can you write descriptions of these photos in the active voice?

The children enjoyed climbing They spent the day kayaking down
during their school camp. the river.
Perfect Passive Voice
Can you write descriptions of these photos in the passive voice?

Tasty cupcakes were baked by my The water balloons were blown up by

aunt for my birthday party. my brother for the water fight.
Quick Quiz 1
Which sentence is written in the passive voice?

Keira played for the netball team.

The tasty meal was cooked by my mum.

My little brother always wakes up early.

I am lucky to be going on holiday to France with

my best friend’s family.
Quick Quiz 2
Underline the objects in these active sentences:

I climbed the tallest tree in the park yesterday.

The class boarded the coach noisily to go on their trip to London.

We eat our lunch on the field in the summer.

Quick Quiz 3
Rewrite these sentences in the passive voice:

Gina visited the library regularly.

The library was visited by Gina regularly.

My family always eat turkey for Christmas dinner.

Turkey is always eaten by my family for Christmas dinner.

The lazy girl ignored her alarm clock.

The alarm clock was ignored by the lazy girl.