PASSIVE VOICE
💬 Describe a place you know. What is cleaned every day there?
✅ The floors and windows are cleaned every day.
💬 Look at your room. What must be true about it right now?
✅ It must be clean because I just cleaned it.
💬 Think about yesterday. What had you already done before going to school or work?
✅ I had eaten breakfast before I left the house.
💬 Report what your teacher said about homework yesterday.
✅ My teacher said that we had homework to do.
💬 Tell me what your friend asked you this morning.
✅ My friend asked me if I wanted to go to the park.
💬 Think about your school or workplace. What tasks are done by other people (not you)?
✅ The classrooms are cleaned by the janitors. The reports are written by the staff.
💬 If you see dark clouds outside, what might happen?
✅ It might rain soon.
💬 Tell me about something you had finished before starting a new activity last week.
✅ I had finished my homework before I watched TV.
💬 Report a command or request someone gave you recently.
✅ My mother told me to clean my room.
💬 Tell me how you would report the question: "Where do you live?"
✅ He asked me where I lived.
💬 Give an example of how passive voice is used in instructions or recipes.
✅ Passive voice shows what happens to the object without focusing on who does it. For example: "The cake is baked at 180 degrees."
💬 You hear a doorbell but nobody is at the door. What could that mean?
✅ It could mean someone left and forgot to close the door properly.
💬 Describe a situation when you arrived somewhere and found out something had already happened.
✅ I arrived at the party, but everyone had already left.
💬 Describe how to change a direct statement into reported speech. Give an example.
✅ You change the verb tense to past and remove quotation marks. For example: "I am tired" becomes "He said he was tired."
💬 Explain how to report a yes/no question and give an example.
✅ Use "if" or "whether" after the reporting verb. For example: "Are you coming?" becomes "She asked if I was coming."
💬 Describe an event you attended and explain what was prepared and organized by others using passive sentences.
✅ The room was decorated with balloons. The food was prepared by a catering company. The invitations were sent by the event organizers.
💬 Think about a friend who didn’t answer your message all day. What can you deduce about the situation?
✅ They can’t have seen my message or they must be busy.
💬 Explain how past perfect helps show the order of events in the past. Give an example from your life.
✅ Past perfect shows what happened first. For example, I had studied English before I moved to another city.
💬 Report a warning or advice someone gave you. Use reported imperative.
✅ The doctor told me not to eat too much sugar.
💬 Tell me how to report a question with question words (like "what," "where") and give an example.
✅ Keep the question word and change the verb tense. For example: "What time is it?" becomes "He asked what time it was."
💬 Write about a famous invention or discovery. Use at least three passive voice sentences to describe how it was made or found.
✅ The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell. It was developed to improve communication. The first calls were made using simple devices.
💬 Describe a situation where you aren’t sure what happened but you use modals of deduction to explain possible reasons.
✅ My keys aren’t here. They might be in my bag, or I could have left them at work. They can’t be at home because I looked everywhere.
💬 Describe a problem you solved and explain what had happened before you solved it.
✅ I couldn’t find my keys because I had left them at my friend’s house. After I remembered, I called him and got them back.
💬 Report a conversation you had, including at least one statement, one question, and one command.
✅ She said she was tired, asked if I could help her, and told me to call her later.
💬 Explain how the pronouns and time expressions change when reporting speech and give an example.
✅ Pronouns change to match the speaker and time expressions move to past. For example: "I will see you tomorrow" becomes "He said he would see me the next day."