Transform Sentences from a Passive to active voice and vice versa

1. Good
Morning

2. Activity

3. a. What can you observe with the sentences?
b. What makes them different if they still make
the same meaning ?

4. 01 Active &
Passive Voice

5. Sentences in the active
voice have the subject before
the verb. Sentences in
the passive voice put the
subject after the verb, if it's
there at all. In a passive voice
sentence, the verb is always a
form of “to be.” Sentences in
the active voice use stronger
verbs.

6. Active sentence Passive sentence
I eat dinner.
[Subject / Object]
Dinner is eaten by me.
[Object / Subject]

7. The Passive tense “formula”
Remember:
The action verb is in the past participle. This is
standard for all use of the passive voice.
The be verb can be modified to change tense.

8. For example:
Dinner was eaten / has been eaten / had been
eaten etc.
However, the action verb must remain in the
past participle form. It cannot be expressed in
the present participle.
Thus the rule for the passive voice is:
Object + be + past participle ( + agent )

9. Error-spotting

10. Each group will create a news report
(fictional or real) about an environmental
event such as a fire, earthquake, typhoon,
landslide etc. Select a location (city or
country) and present it to the class, pointing
out your use of the passive tense throughout.
Do this in 5 minutes.
Activity

11. Criteria
Content …………………………………………………. 20
Relevance to the topic ….............. 25
Over-all performance …………………. 5
TOTAL…………………………………………………………. 50

12. Do this!
In a 1 whole sheet of paper, the students will
write their experiences during the holiday
with the presence of PASSIVE and ACTIVE
voice in the content.