Eileen Eileen

Passive Voice pt. 2

Description

This lesson expands Passive Voice to additional forms and helps students avoid common errors. Students practice deciding when to include the agent, and use passive naturally in short "service/news/process" contexts.

Materials

Abc Board
Abc Exercises
Abc Printed materials
Abc Projector

Main Aims

  • To enable students to use Passive Voice more flexibly and accurately, including correct agent use and improved tense control.

Subsidiary Aims

  • To review and reinforce Passive in present/past.
  • To extend passive to common real-life patterns.
  • To decide when "by + doer" is necessary.
  • To correct frequent passive voice mistakes.

Procedure

Activation (25-30 minutes) • Increase energy and teamwork through movement and quick thinking.

2 teams Relay writing at the board. Teacher calls categories (foods, countries, verbs, hobbies, etc.). One student runs, writes one item, passes marker. 10-12 rounds.

Vocabulary (3-5 minutes) • Gain more vocabulary.

Ask students to give you the vocabulary cards of the day. Teacher checks them in case of spelling mistakes or wring definition. Put participation on the Excel.

Presentation (38-40 minutes) • Introduce passive voice in Present Perfect and Modals.

Talk about a new form to says things and when they can use it. Show the rules of transforming Active voice to Passive. Explain the structure of passive voice with: Present Perfect and Modals. Show the contrast with active voice. Put some examples. Ask for other examples.

Controlled Practice (18-20 minutes) • Improve accuracy by fixing typical passive errors.

Exercise A (8 items): find and correct the error. Exercise B (8 items): convert active - passive (mixed tenses). Whole-class correction; teacher highlights patterns of mistakes.

Production (23-25 minutes) • Use passive for formal reporting with a clear structure.

In pairs, students write a 45-60 second "news flash" using: -at least 5 passive sentences -at least 3 vocab words -optional: 1 sentence with "by" agent Teacher monitors and notes errors.

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