Week 5/6 V2A, passive voice

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 2

Welcome 

class V2A

After this lesson:

-> you understand what the passive voice is;

-> you can use the passive voice in sentences.

Passive voice?
(what do you remember from the last lesson?)

Which one is the passive?

1. I eat
2. I am eaten

Tenses and the passive voice:

-> You have to know your TENSES (= werkwoordstijden) to make the correct passive voice.

-> Tenses are: present simple, past simple, present perfect, present continuous, past continuous. 

Remember???

Tenses and the passive voice:

-> Normally, the tenses are in the ACTIVE voice: 

Present simple, active voice: I eat a banana.

-> Now we make these sentences PASSIVE: 

Present simple, passive voice: A banana is eaten by me.

-> The focus is on the action 'eating' (not on 'I')

-> The object (banana) becomes the subject

-> A form of to be (is) + past participle (eaten) is added.

Tenses, active voice: 

Present simple: I eat a banana every day.

Present continuous: I am eating a banana right now.

Past simple: I ate a banana yesterday.

Past continuous: I was eating a banana when she called.

Present perfect: I have been eating bananas since I was two years old.

Active vs. passive voice:

ACTIVE voice: I eat a banana every day.

PASSIVE voice: That banana is eaten (by me) every day.

ACTIVE voice: He is eating a banana right now.

PASSIVE voice: A banana is being eaten (by him) right now.

'That banana is eaten (by me) every day' is:

1. Active voice, present simple
2. Active voice, present continuous
3. Passive voice, present simple
4. Passive voice, present continuous

'A banana is being eaten (by him) right now' is:

1. Active voice, present simple
2. Active voice, present continuous
3. Passive voice, present simple
4. Passive voice, present continuous

Active vs. passive voice:

ACTIVE voice: I ate a banana.

PASSIVE voice: A banana was eaten (by me).

ACTIVE voice: I was eating the banana.

PASSIVE voice: The banana was being eaten (by me). 

ACTIVE voice: She has eaten the banana.

PASSIVE voice: The banana has been eaten (by her).

'A banana was eaten (by me)' is:

1. Active voice, past simple
2. Active voice, past continuous
3. Passive voice, past simple
4. Passive voice, past continuous

'The banana was being eaten (by me)' is:

1. Passive voice, past simple
2. Passive voice, past continuous
3. Active voice, past simple
4. Active voice, past continuous

'The banana has been eaten (by her)' is:

1. Passive voice, present perfect
2. Active voice, present perfect
3. Active voice, past simple
4. Passive voice, past continuous

p. 90 book B

Homework check:

- Write 3 of your own sentences in the passive voice. Also write down what these sentences look like in the active voice.

- Make exercise 53 a+b.

Write your own 3 sentences in the passive voice. Also write down what they look like in the active voice.

53a: Type your answers (1-7) here:

53b: Type your answers (1-10) here:

The passive voice:

I know what it is and how to use it

I know what it is but not how to use it

I know how to use it, but not what it is

I don't know what it is and how to use it

What is passive voice?