Unit 16: SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM Lesson 5: Languagefocus Grammar: PASSIVE VOICE Contents Teacher’s activities Students’ activities I.WARMER: (5 minutes) ACT IT OUT 1. You are stolen money. 2. You are killed 3. You are kissed 4. You are hit on the head 5. You are bitten (by a dog) II. PRESENTATON: (10 minutes) Task 1: Decide whether the statements are active or passive by Choosing the best answers: 1. Everybody_____by the terrible news yesterday. a. shocked b. was shock 2. Mr. Green _____ at the University since 1989 a. has been teaching b. has been taught 3. Not much_____ about the accident since that time. a. has said b. has been said 4. The secretary _____ to her new boss yesterday. a. introduced - T divides the class into team A and team B, gives instructions: “I have 5 cards, at one time, I need one volunteer to come here to choose one of them and act the action on it, so that your friends can guess what happens to the volunteer. The team raising hand first can answer. The winner will be the one who can get higher mark”. - T plays game and control the class. - T asks Ss to work individually. - T goes around helping. - T asks Ss to compare their answers. - T calls some Ss give their answer. - T corrects with whole class. - Ss listen to the rule carefully and join in the game. - Ss work individually. - Ss share their answers with each other. - Ss correct with T b. was introduced 5. He _____ responsible for the accident. a. was held b. was holding 6. A prize ______ to whoever solves this equation a. will be given b. will be giving Keys: 1. b 2. a 3. b 4. b 5. a 6. a Useful Knowledge: Active: Mr. Brown wrote the report yesterday. S V O Passive: The report was written by Mr. Brown yesterday S V ( be+PP) O Remember these things: 1. The position of adverbs: • Ex: The chairs are being carried into the house by his children Adverbs of place stand before By + Agent. • Ex: This report will be read by Dr.Blake at 2pm. Adverbs of time stand after By + Agent. • Ex: They have been badly treated by the boss. Adverb of manner usually stand between be and past participle. 2. Ex: My leg hurts.=> can’t change into passive voice Sentences with intransitive verbs can not change into passive voice. 3. Ex: He made me do it. - I was made to do it. Verbs of perception like see, hear, watch, notice, and the verbs make, know have to go with infinitive with TO III. PRACTICE: (17 minutes) Task 2: Rewrite the following the following sentences using the passive voice for the underlined verbs. See book on pages 45 & 46. Keys: 1. will be required, is required 2. is usually considered 3. must be taught 4. was ended - From task 1, T elicits Ss the structure of passive voice. - T shows examples first and asks Ss to answer the grammatical point of the lesson, so that they can absorb the knowledge long. - T explains more about the lesson. - T asks Ss to work individually in 5 minutes. - T goes around helping. - T asks Ss to compare their answers with each other. - T calls some Ss go to the board and give their answers. - Ss observe the examples and answer the T’s questions. - Ss listen carefully and take notes. - Ss work individually. - Ss compare their answers with each other. - Some Ss go to the board while others observe. 5. should have been paid 6. have recently been helped 7. is reported 8. had been closely watched. Task 3: Rewrite the following sentences in the opposite voice: 1. They still deny women the right to vote in some country. 2. All the arrangement for the journey has been made. 3. Someone has brought this child up very badly. 4. Medical care will be brought to the poor in our rural areas. 5. I wish everybody had been invited to our wedding. 6. You should place matches out of reach of children. 7. Somebody has just sent a box of flowers to you. 8. People don’t learn languages in a short time. 9. What sort of experiment are they doing in the laboratory? Answers: 1. Women are still denied the right to vote. Or: The right to vote is still denied woman in some… 2. We have made all the arrangement for the journey. 3. This child has been very badly brought up 4. They will bring medical care to the poor in our rural areas 5. I wish we had invited every body to our wedding. 6. Matches should be placed out of reach of children. 7. A box of flowers has just been sent to you. 8. Languages aren’t learned in a short time. 9. What sort of experiment is being done in the laboratory? IV. FURTHER PRACTICE:(10 minutes) A potato farmer was sent to prison at just the time when he should have been digging the ground for planting the new crop of potatoes. He knew that his wife was not strong enough to do the digging by herself but she could manage to do the planting. So he wrote a letter to his wife “Please, do not dig the potato field, I hid the money and gun there”. Work in groups of four make up the end of the story by using passive voice. V. HOMEWORK: (3minutes) - At home, run through again the lesson to consolidate the main grammatical points. - Do Task 4 in handout (Rewrite the sentences). - T calls other Ss to repeat the answers. - T checks with the whole class. - T lets Ss to play a board game. T give instructions: “I divide class into team A and team B. Each team has 1 die, and takes turn to roll the die and move forward. When you stop at one number you will do the correspondent sentence in task 3. If you are correct you can stay on the new space, if incorrect, you will move back to where you were. The winner will be the one who can reach the finish. - T plays game and controls the class. - T lets Ss work in group of four. - T goes around helping Ss with ideas, structures, vocabulary . - T calls some groups to present. - T gives assignment - Ss check the answers with T. - Ss listen to the rule and enjoy the game. - Ss practice in groups. - Some Ss present and others listen. - Ss take notes. . higher mark”. - T plays game and control the class. - T asks Ss to work individually. - T goes around helping. - T asks Ss to compare their answers. - T calls. groups to present. - T gives assignment - Ss check the answers with T. - Ss listen to the rule and enjoy the game. - Ss practice in groups. - Some Ss present