Revision passive voice

1. ENGLISH REVISION UNIT 6
Present
passive
PRESENT PASSIVE: A cake is cooked by my sister.
is / are + participle
Past
passive
PAST PASSIVE: A cake was cooked by my sister yesterday.
was/were + participle
1. Use the past passive to rewrite theses sentences:
a) She sang a song. ________________________________________
b) Somebody called me. _____________________________________
c) We stopped the bus. ______________________________________
d) An architect built my house._________________________________
e) They didn't bought a book___________________________________
f) She didn't eat that pizza. ___________________________________
g) They didn't feed the dog.____________________________________
h) Did he wash the car?. ______________________________________
2.- Write sentences about the Tower Bridge with the words below using
the present passive.
a) Tower Bridge / situate / on the River Thames.
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b) many famous London landmarks / see / from the bridge
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c) Tower Bridge / visit / by more than 380,000 tourists / every year
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d) Tower Bridge / cross / by over 40,000 people / every day
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2. ENGLISH REVISION UNIT 6
3. Rewrite the sentences using present passive or past passive.
a. Mary collects flowers. __________________________________
b. Karla opened the door. _________________________________
c. We did our homework. _________________________________
d. He cleans the office every day. ____________________________
e. The children ate many candies. ___________________________
f. We do not speak Chinese. _______________________________
g. Did Sally draw this house? _______________________________
h. Does she bake cakes every weekend? ________________________
4. Complete with present passive or past passive.
A Short History of Ice-Cream:
It ................. (know) that sweet dishes .....were cooled....................... (cool) with
snow and ice in ancient times. These ........................... (enjoy) by the rich and
powerful such as Alexander the great, the Egyptian Pharaohs, and the Emperor
Nero. Sorbets, or water ices, have been known known since the 16th century, when
they ........................ (introduce) in Florence. However, real ice cream, made with
fresh cream or milk, ............................. (produce) for the first time in the 1630s by
Gerald Tissain, the French chef of the British king, Charles I. During the 18th
century, ice-cream .................................. (eat) regularly at fashionable ice-cream
cafés in London, Paris and other great cities. It was still a great luxury, though. It
.............................. (know), for example, that George Washington spent $200 on ice-
cream in just two months in 1790. The cost ......................... (reduce) when the first
ice-cream factory.......................... (open) in 1851 by another American, George
Fussel. Since the 19th century, though, it has been the Italians who have been seen
as the great ice-cream makers. In the mid-19th century, for example, ice-cream
.................................... (sell) in the streets of London by as many as 30,000 Italians.
The Italian methods have been learnt by many others since those days, and so today
excellent ice-cream ........ (make) and ................................... (enjoy) all over the
world.