The passive voice is useful in academic writing because it allows the writer or speaker to emphasize a subject by rearranging a sentence. In business the passive voice is often used to describe processes . Exercises using pictures encourage students to use critical thinking skills and help illustrate the passive voice in a memorable way.
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5 Useful Passive Voice Exercises and Worksheets
1 Passive voice worksheet (with answers)
This is a passive voice sentence writing exercise for English language learners. Students complete the sentences using their own ideas generated by the pictures. The verbs below the pictures and the “Useful vocabulary” at the bottom of the page may assist them. Click on the image below or the link to download the PDF file.
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2 Writing passive sentences (with answers)
This is another passive voice sentence writing exercise.
3 Passive voice sentences for environmental issues (with answers)
The exercise below is for exploring the language of environmental issues in the classroom by writing passive voice sentences. It is a good way to gauge the level of knowledge about environmental issues. While students work independently the teacher can walk around and choose some of the best sentences and write them on the the on the board.
4 Processing cotton writing exercise
This exercise helps students understand how to write sentences in the active or passive voice when describing a process.
5 Passive toast classroom activity
This is a classroom miming activity for the passive voice. Below are the instructions.
1.Mime
Warm the class to this activity by miming and eliciting from them the instructions for making toast.
2. Group Work/writing
Next, give out the handout and tell the students to rewrite the instructions in the passive tense.
3. Speaking
Finally, with the students in groups of three, one looks at the instructions and mimes while the other two reproduce the instructions as they are acted out.
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There is no such thing as a”passive tense”.Tenses relate to time : past, present, future.
Active and passive refer to “voices” not tenses.
Hi,
Of course. I just think of the different grammar constructions. Thanks for that. Just an oversight.
Ok! All fixed. Passive voice rocks!!