Thursday, January 19, 2006

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!)

3 Comments:

Blogger PaddyG said...

Inês thk you so much and the sentences were very good!
Who was the Australina Open by in the end? (Has it finished yet?)

Hope your mum has a nice birthday!

Paddy

12:26 PM  
Blogger PaddyG said...

OK guys - sorry about the misspellings - I was working to fast! Well spotted!!
P

12:27 PM  
Blogger PaddyG said...

And Mário Soares will win the ' Presidenciais 2006'

Ooooohhhhhh, really...? not even second place!
P

12:28 PM  

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