3) How do I change active voice into passive voice?
4) Active verbs change into passive verbs.
5) Verbs with two objects
6) Have / get something done
7) Omission of the the Agent
It is obvious from the context who or what the agent is
It is obvious from our general knowledge who or what the agent is.
It is obvious from our general knowledge who or what the agent is
8) More information in your Student's book pag 138 -139.
9) Some extra exercises pag.119 Assess yourself
10) Passive voice is mostly used... when we want to focus on the action or on the object of the action. Context is very important.
a) when we describe a laboratory process as the person or doer is not relevant.
b) when you describe the preparation of a dish.
c) in newspaper headlines
Search the Internet and find a video on: How do they make/ create/ .....? on anything you are interested in.
For example:
1)
How does your mobile phone work?
Listen to
this video and complete the grid:
Specialized
vocabulary
Verbal tenses
Transitions (
firstly …..)
Summarize the
video in 5/6 steps.
Interest
2)
It’s your turn! Choose a product and describe its process.
After
choosing the product, look for more information about its process or
industrialization, think
about the vocabulary you will need and check spelling.
Use
the correct form of the Passive voice when needed.
Answer
the following questions:
How
is it made?
What
is its origin?
How
it is transformed?
What
are the steps followed?
What
are its uses and aplications?
What
are the costs? ( if you find out)
All
the
the
information that you consider relevant to know.
How to describe a process: Popcorn, Coffee or Paper. Written Examples.
Example: ISL COLLECTIVE
3) Make an oral presentation of your product. (2-3 minutes) Send it to the mail as usual. (
You can include a visual aid: ppt presentation, poster, picture or drawing)
What are those videos about? Would you like to visit Liverpool? Why? Why not? Where would you go if you could? If you had the opportunity to meet any of the Beatles, what would you say to him?
Here comes the Sun
Abbey Road
Abbey Roadis a thoroughfare in the borough of Camden and the City of Westminster in London, running roughly northwest to southeast through St. John's Wood, near Lord's Cricket Ground. It is part of the B507 road.