Passive voice

I will share a set of activities I have used with different groups and levels in order to practice the use of passive voice.



A first activity could be the following:

Combine the words from the box to make sentences in passive voice in simple present. You get to choose the verb. Feel free to create any other example or use any other country or product.

Coffee Chocolate Perfumes Cars Pizza Meat Rice Celebrities Watches

United States Italy Switzerland France China Uruguay England Egypt Japan

Eg: Great meat is eaten in Uruguay.
Many celebrities are found in the United States.

Write at least 5 more examples:

1. _______________________________________________
2. _______________________________________________
3. _______________________________________________
4. _______________________________________________
5. _______________________________________________

Jeopardy time! Always effective, always fun. Who doesn't like competitions? I personally love this kind of game as a teacher and as a student.


General culture! I adapted the first activity from bogglesworldesl.com and developed the second myself. 

Jeopardy 1
Jeopardy 2

This is a great activity developed by Claudio Acevedo. It shows students how the active and passive voice interact.

Another possibility following the same line:

I created this presentation for students to transform active into passive voice.

As a follow up, students will go to glogster and create a brochure for one of the destinations in the presentation. They may do some research and the only condition is that they must use passive whenever possible. After that, they could role play an interaction taking place at the travel agency, deliver a presentation about the place, etc.

For more advanced learners:

They will transform sentences into the passive voice. After they do one, they will listen to a song in order to check whether they did it correctly. If they know the name of the artist, they get an extra point :).

Here's the exercise. 

The audio: