The passive
Complete the sentences with the passive form of the verbs in brackets:
This concert should ______ on TV so that everyone can see it. (show)
be shown
Complete the sentence with correct reflexive pronoun:
Can you and your friends find ______ something to eat?
yourselves
Complete the sentence with correct indefinite pronoun:
Would you like ____ to drink before we leave?
something
a type of dancing where carefully organized movements tell a story or express an idea, or a theatre work that uses this type of dancing
Ballet
the soft, thick hair that grows on the bodies of sheep and some other animals
wool
Complete the sentences with the passive form of the verbs in brackets:
The new art gallery _______ by the mayor next Tuesday. (oped)
will be opened
My sister injured _____ during a basketball match.
herself
When the ground floor flooded, we moved _____ upstairs to keep it dry.
everything
a person who writes music
composer
to make clothes, etc. by using two long needles to connect wool or another type of thread into joined rows
to knit
Complete the sentences with the passive form of the verbs in brackets:
How many Hunger games films _______ so far? (make)
have been made
Rewrite the sentence using the structure have something done:
They dyed Grace's hair at the hairdresser's.
Grace had her hair dyed at the hairdresser's.
_____ knows why she resigned, it is a mystery.
nobody/ no one
the art of forming solid objects that represent a thing, person, idea, etc. out of a material such as wood, clay, metal, or stone
sculpture
one of the parts of a tree that grows out from the main trunk and has leaves, flowers, or fruit on it
branch
Complete the sentences with the passive form of the verbs in brackets:
The painting Sunflowers _________ by Van Gogh. (paint)
was painted
Rewrite the sentence using the structure have something done:
My uncle' s nose was broken in a boxing match.
My uncle had his nose broken in a boxing match.
They searched the sea for survivors, but they did not find ___ at all.
anybody/ anyone
a person who writes plays
playwright
a main accent or rhythmic unit in music or poetry
beat
Complete the sentences with the passive form of the verbs in brackets:
An opera ______ in the concert hall later this evening. (perform)
is being performed/ will be performed
Rewrite the sentence using the structure have something done:
They are going to repair my laptop by Monday.
I am going to have my laptop repaired by Monday.
My sister is starting university in London next week and needs _____ to live.
somewhere
someone who directs the performance of musicians or a piece of music
conductor
the wide central part of a tree, from which the branches grow
tree trunk