The document discusses the active and passive voice in English. It provides examples of sentences written in the active and passive voice in different tenses. It then provides practice exercises, asking the reader to convert sentences from active to passive voice. Finally, it provides a story about the history and production of jeans, asking the reader to convert those sentences to the passive voice.

2. The passive voice is used when the most important in
the sentences is the action and not the subject or
person.
TO BE + PAST PARTICIPLE + BY + SUBJECT
 Examples:
 Mary writes very interesting books ( Active Voice)
 Very interesting books are written by Mary (Passive
Voice)

4. More examples.

5. Past Passive Voice
TO BE IN PAST + PAST PARTICIPLE VERB + BY+ SUBJECT
Examples:
• Shakespeare wrote Hamlet ( active voice )
• Hamlet was written by Shakespeare ( passive voice)
• My father drew great pictures in the exhibition
• Great pictures were drawn by my father in the
exhibition.

6. More examples

7. PRACTICE
1.The students created a very interesting essay about
the nature.
2. The secretary types different school documents
in the morning.
3. Hiran Brigham discovered the Machu Picchu
Ruins in 1911.
4. The child will drink all the milk bottle in the
morning.
5.Some sportmen have jumped the London Bridge
in the dawn.
6. Mario Vargas Llosa has produced very
controversial books in all his life.

8.  7 The doctors will do an emergency surgery in the
hospital.
 8.Chinese people have bought free tickets for the
concert.
 9 The mechanics can fix old cars in two hours.
 10 Students must do the homework everyday.

9. ACTIVE VOICE
VERB IN PRESENT
PASSIVE VOICE
FUTURE TENSE (WILL)
TO BE + VERB IN PAST
PARTICIPLE
TO BE + VERB IN PAST
PARTICIPLE
WILL+ TO BE+ V.P.P
PRESENT PERFECT
HAVE/HAS + BEEN+ VPP
PAST PERFECT
HAD + BEEN + VPP
MODALS(can,should,must,
Might ;Could,may)
MODAL+ TO BE+ VPP
VERB IN PAST

10. 11. A well known singer can sign thousand of
autographs in the Aventura Plaza Mall.
12. The teacher teaches the Passive Voice
Lesson to the english students in the third floor
of the school.
13. The artist has drawn a very colorful
sigtseeing picture in the middle of the main
square.
14. Gaston Acurio represents our peruvian
gastronomy , and in the best way for all over the
world.
15. The England Collonies conquested North
America in the 18th. Century.

11.  16The Huascar Ship confronted to the Esmerald
Ship in the Iquique Combat in 1879.
 17 Two hundred thousand people died in the
Indonesia Tsunami in 2004.
 18. Nostradamus has done many phofecies
about the Judish Global Holocauste.
 19. Salvador Dali painted the most famous
impresionist pictures in the world.

12. CLASS PRACTICE
 Think about some inventions , literature books , music
,programs,etc and write twenty sentences in active
voice and change them to the passive voice.
 Use all the tenses.
 Examples:
 Mario Vargas Llosa has written El Sueño de Zelta.
 El Sueño de Zelta has been written by Mario
Vargas Llosa.

13. THE STORY OF JEANS
Jeans (wear)………………………………………by people all over the world.
Millions of pairs of jeans(buy)……………………………………..everyday. Jeans
(make)…………………………………..from cotton. The
cotton(pick)……………………………………and (make)………………………………..into a
cloth called denim. The denim (color)……………………………………….blue. The
denim(make)……………………………Into jeans by women workers who are
usually badly (pay)…………………………. Then the
jeans(take)………………………………………………..to stores where they
(sell)…………………………………..for twice the cost of making them. The word
“jeans” comes from Italy. Over three hundred years ago the people of
Genoa wore cotton clothes and the cloth
(know)…………………………………………..as “jeans” after the name of the town.
The first jeans (make)…………………………………………in the USA as early as
1638.A man called Levi Strauss went to California from New York in 1853
and in 1872 the first Levi jeans (make)……………………………………… The famous
Levi label(use)……………………………………………….first in 1886, and the first Levi
501s (sell)………………………..in 1890. This great jeans
(buy)………………………………………………for millions all over the world.