Lesson 48: Unit 104 - Passive Voice

About this lesson

In this lesson you will learn how to form and use the passive voice in English. You will understand the difference between the active and the passive voice and see how the object of an active sentence becomes the subject of a passive one. You will practise transforming sentences through an exciting story about Jake and the villain Mario Borisov. You will master the correct use of the passive construction in the present, past and perfect tenses and learn key vocabulary from the text.

40 minutes

What you'll learn

• Form the passive voice with be + past participle in different tenses.
• Understand the difference between the active and the passive voice and when each is used.
• Know that the object of the active sentence becomes the subject of the passive one.
• Use the preposition BY to indicate who performs the action.
• Recognise and use key vocabulary from the lesson in context.
• Transform sentences from the active into the passive voice.

Lesson vocabulary

• to search for He began searching carefully for the secret plans.
• to push Suddenly, he was pushed violently from behind.
• violently He was pushed violently from behind.
• everything went black He fell, hitting his head on the stone floor, and everything went black.
• to come round When he came round he found that he had been taken to a small room.
• to point at 'What are you going to do with him?' asked the second man, pointing at Jake.
• to slam The door slammed shut and was locked from the outside.
• desperately Jake looked desperately round the room.
• doubt No doubt he will be killed in the morning!
• immediately Jake immediately recognized one of them.
• to trap There was no escape. Jake was trapped.
• to unlock A few minutes later the door was unlocked.
• to drug He felt as if he had been drugged.
• to tie His hands and feet were tied with rope.
• mad It was Mario Borisoff, the mad scientist.

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In other languages: Български