Unit 12

Uniting for a better future

Let’s remember

Vocabularies we’ve learnt

Health care

Doctors and nurses hospitals & clinics

social services

social workers community centres

Education

teachers schools & training centres

THE PASSIVE

Lesson 2

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Function For

m By+ agent

The staff provide essential support

subject object

verb

-This is an active sentence

This sentence is :Active or passive?

How to change that sentence into

Passive

??

Passive

Function

First

The active sentences say: who does what,

But the passive sentences put the

what first .The focus is what.

Active sentence

UNRWA runs the refugee camps

who does what

BUT…

Passive

Sentences

The refugee camps are run by UNRWA

WhatCome first and

focused

Passive

Form

Second

The UN has been asked to help by many countries.

The rule is:

Be + p.p

How to make Passive?

Step 1: decide the tense (example: present simple, past continuous, …etc.)Step 2: put the object in the beginning of the sentence.

Many country has asked the UN to help

The UN has been asked to help by many countries.

Step 3: use the rule (be+p.p) in the same tense (after adding the helping verb, if there is one)

The UN has been asked to help by many countries.

Be + p.p

Many country has asked the UN to help

The UN has been asked to help by many countries.

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Passive

By + agent

Third

If the who part is important, we can keep it with..

by + agentExample

The UN has been asked to help by many countries.

Exercises

Make the following sentences into Passive.

1- Channel 3 organized a special news team.

A special news team was organized by channel 3.

2- They only need the UN for a short time.

The UN is only needed for a short time.

3- Many of them have provide essential support for the refugees.

Essential support has been provided by many of them.

Finally Homework

Page: 66+67Exercises: 2+3

In Workbook

Thank you very much

Greetings from

Mr. Mohamed Al-Sek