All Passives articles
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Compass: Lesson 3: Eating habits
The third lesson of this new series from award-winning author Lizzie Pinard.
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Quiz: Present passives
A card game at upper intermediate level to practise using present passives that can be played as a group game or a team game.
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Guiding
The third lesson plan in this series by Keith Harding gives students practice in describing buildings and places, using prepositions and the passive. The lesson is available at two levels - elementary and intermediate - and contains comprehensive teacher's notes and student worksheets.
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Grammar: passives in conversation
Lindsay Clandfield offers some advice and suggestions for practising the passive in conversation classes.
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Air travel English
To introduce and extend language for travelling by plane and to introduce the passive voice (present simple).
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Grammar: passives
Some advice and suggestions for practising the passive in a conversation class.
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The passive in English – article
An article by Kerry Maxwell and Lindsay Clandfield on approaches to teaching the passive in English.
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The passive in English – tips and activities
Tips and ideas from Kerry Maxwell and Lindsay Clandfield on teaching the passive in English.
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Grammar: word order in passive questions
An article offering an explanation and teaching suggestions on word order in passive questions.
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ArticleWriting skills: formal and informal writing
To enable students to break down the different features of formal and informal English by working through a step-by-step text transformation at their own pace.
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Facts and myths
A British English worksheet to guess common myths and compare them with the facts that disprove them.
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Exams: Describing how something works
Preparing students for the writing part 1 of the Academic IELTS exam.
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Lesson Share: Grammar: What's been changed?
This is an integrated skills activity with an emphasis on speaking practice using the present perfect simple passive (vs. active) in a very active, functional and fun way.
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What do you know about the world?
An American English worksheet to play a game of tic-tac-toe by choosing the correct answers to questions about world facts.
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Passives 4
A British English worksheet to complete activities to practise using passive verbs with should.
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Passives 4
A British English worksheet to complete activities to practise using passive verbs.
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Passives 3
A British English worksheet to complete activities to practise using the passive in a mixture of tenses.
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Passives 2
A British English worksheet to put the past participles of verbs into the correct categories and use them to complete the hotel information sheet.
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Passives 2
A British English worksheet to complete activities to practise using passive verbs.