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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)

3. My parents sell last model cars in the main avenue.
Last model cars are sold by my parents in the main
avenue.

4. More examples.
• The baby sees funny cartoons in the TV
• My best friend cleans his bedroom every Saturday.
• Students do interesting homework at school
• My mom cooks delicious peruvian food on weekends.
• The architects build a modern building in the avenue.
• The girl reads romantic stories in her free time.

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 drink all the milk bottle in the
morning.
5.Some sportmen jumped the London Bridge in the
dawn.
6. Mario Vargas Llosa produces very controversial
books in all his life.

8.  7 The doctors do an emergency surgery in the
hospital.
 8.Chinese people bought free tickets for the concert.
 9 The mechanics fix old cars in two hours.
 10 Students do the homework everyday.
 11. A well known singer sign thousand of
autographs in the Aventura Plaza Mall.

9. 12. The teacher teaches the Passive Voice
Lesson to the english students in the third
floor of the school.
13. The artist draws 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.

10.  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 did many phofecies about
the Judish Global Holocauste.
 19. Salvador Dali painted the most famous
impresionist pictures in the world.

11. 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.

12. HOMEWORK
 Think about some inventions, literature books , music,
programs,etc and write twenty sentences in active
voice and change them to the passive voice.
 Examples:
 Mario Vargas Llosa writes El Sueño de Zelta.
 El Sueño de Zelta is written by Mario Vargas Llosa.

13. ACTIVE VOICE PASSIVE VOICE
VERB IN PRESENT TO BE + VERB IN PAST
PARTICIPLE
VERB IN PAST TO BE + VERB IN PAST
PARTICIPLE
FUTURE TENSE (WILL) 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