Passive voice
intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide clarification of Passive voice in the context of trying to make some passive sentence by looking at some pictures
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide accuracy speaking practice in a conversation in the context of talking more professionally by using passive voice
Procedure (36-48 minutes)
In this stage, students will be shown pictures of some inventions. they have to guess which of those inventions were invented by women.
In this stage, I will tell my students that they do not know who invented those inventions. then i will ask them how they will say such sentence. a sentence that they do not know who is the subject.
I will write some of my students answers that were made in a correct form on the board to draw their attention to TL
In this stage, i will clarify the meaning and the form of the passive sentences by asking these questions from my students: 1)Do we have sub in this sentence? no 2)What is the role of this word at the beginning of the sentence? object 3)What is the form of the verb here? tobe+p.p 4)If I add by at the end of the sentence, will the whole meaning change? no we just add by to say who did the job. 5)In these sentences, in which part we focus? object
Students will be asked to do the exercise A on page 145 in the grammar bank in 4 minutes. they will have 2 minutes to check their answers i pairs. then we will check them with whole class.
I will ask my students to talk about one of their expeditions that they went with their school using both active and passive voice.