Unit 12 - Passive

Rubbish debris space satellite spacecraft... Rubbish/ debris in space.. By satellites and parts of satellites/ rockets being left behind or dropped in space?. A satellite will be destroy

Unit 12 Planet Earth –

grammar

The passive

Grammar in use

1 Look at the cartoon.

a What do you think the text will be about?

b Can you identify any of these things on these pages?

Rubbish debris space satellite spacecraft

2 Answer these questions

1 What is it about?

2 How has the situation been created?

3 Why is the situation dangerous?

4 What will happen in the future?

Answers:

1 Rubbish/ debris in space.

2 By satellites and parts of satellites/ rockets being left behind or dropped in space.

3 Because spacecraft have been damaged and an

astronaut could be hurt.

4 A satellite will be destroyed by a piece of rubbish and create much more debris.

3 What do you think should be done about the situation

in the text?

 How can you stop people leaving things in space?

 Who should be responsible for cleaning up?

 How can the things be recovered?

 How can we stop the situation getting worse?

Rule

• Complete these sentences from the text.

Answers:

• was launched

• have been sent

• are put

• is being polluted

5 would be killed

6 Will be destroyed

S + V + O.

S + be + V(PII) + by + …

S + V + O → S (o) + is/ are/ am + VPII+ O (s)

Eg: Ann writes a letter.

A letter is written by Ann.

Look at sentences:

He repairs his car.

→ His car is repaired by him

1 The present simple tense.

S + V + O → S (o) + is/ are/ am + VPII+ O (s)

2 The present continuous tense

S + is/ am/ are

V + O → S (o) + is/ are/ am + VPII+ O (s)

1 Put the verbs in brackets into the present simple passive

1 is built

2 is tested

3 is taken

4 is prepared

5 are launched

6 are dumped

7 is put

8 are fired

9 is moved

10 is left

Answers:

2 Look at this text about Skylab Listen (12.1), and check

Answers:

1 Was launched

2 were sent

3 Was abandoned

4 Was destroyed

5 Was scattered

6 Was hit

7 Was hurt

8 Were found

9 Were sold

3 Change these sentences from the active into the passive,

keeping the same tense.

1 A camere was dropped by the American astronaut, Michael Collin.

2 Eventually an astronaut will be hit by a piece of debris.

3 The astronaut would not be protected by a normal spacesuit.

4 Communications satellites are being damaged by rubbish.

5 More rubbish will be created by today’s satellites.

6 One of the space shuttle’s window was cracked by a piece of debris.

7 Some satellites have been brought back to Earth by the space…

8 186 marks were found by scientists on one satellite.

9 166 of te marks were caused by sace debris.

4 Rubbish is a problem on Earth, too Discuss these questions.

• Learn new words by heart

• Do exercise 1 – 2 in Workbook.

• Preparing: Vocabulary in unit.