Passive...

Read these sentences and tell your partner what you think...

1. Mario Soares will be beaten by Cavaco and Manuel Alegre on Sunday
2. English is taught brilliantly at IH Viseu!
3. Students are given too much homework in Portugal
4. You were given the wrong oral exams last lesson - you'll have to do them again next week ;-)
5. Today's lasson was cancelled, but you came so I stayed to teach you! I thought you would go and play football or computer games at home! So glad you came anyway!! 0:-]

• Now, read them again carefully and see what words are common to all these sentences?
• There should be two words in each sentence
• We call this verb structure the...

  PASSIVE

• What is more imortant - the activity/action or the person who does/did it? Look again at the sentences to check your idea.

Yep... you guessed it, now it's your turn to write some passive sentences about the world, Portugal, Viseu, school, life, etc - click on 'comments' to write - and remember to SIGN YOUR NAME, please! No name, and the sentences get deleted! (Sorry... gotta be!)

Rules!

Thursday 19th Jan - 12 days till exams!
After what we've just heard and seen in class, can you now write five rules for parents and five for you children - they can be as reasonable (or not!) as you like!
Just click on 'comment' below to write your ideas... and don't forget to sign your name (or log in first if you like).
When you have finished then you can read some of the other students' rules and see what you think! Then write back to them...

Have fun!!

Paddy

Rute's problem...

I have got a dog and I love him. He is everything to me and we are like brothers. When I am with it we play a lot and have fun. But... he has got aproblem with my parents... He does very nonsenses (a lot of silly things) and my parents stay (get) very angry. After that, they discuss (argue)with me and my sister, saying that they educate the dog and we take the education... sometimes my mother tell me that she is going to give the dog for (to) other person...
I hate that idea! I don't want to (be) separated from my dog... I really like him... me and my sister don't take the education away from our dog (it's not that we don't teach our dog how to behave)... we just give more love for him than our parents...
What should I do? Please help!
Rute