جلسه 3

Find out about the end of an era in space travel, and spot active and passive sentences in the present and the past.

جلسه های این واحد

Session 3 score

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    تمرین 1
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    تمرین 2

تمرین 2

Active and passive

Your mission!

We've heard about the end of an era in space travel. Now it's your turn to take off with your exploration of the active and the passive tense.

 

Complete the activity

To do

In the grammar box on this page you can see a summary about constructing present and past active and passive sentences. See if you can complete this activity by making correct sentences. They come from the programme you heard in the previous activity. You can listen again here.

Active and passive

7 Questions

Complete the sentences from the programme in Activity 1 by choosing the correct form of the verbs. 

تبریک می گوییم
Excellent!آفرین! نمره شماBad luck!:
x / y

End of Session 3

That's it for Session 3. In the next session, we continue our journey into space and science fiction. There's also a chance to try out your understanding of the present and past active and passive. See you there! 

دستور زبان این جلسه

  • In English we can talk about when A does something to B in two different ways. (Here NASA is A and the shuttle is B)

    Active voice
    NASA launched its final shuttle in 2011.

    Passive voice
    The final shuttle was launched by NASA in 2011.

    We use the passive voice when...

    • we are more interested in the action
    • the agent (or doer) is unimportant, unknown or obvious
    • we want to put the new information at the end of a sentence

    The passive is made with subject + to be + past participle

    • The shuttle was launched in 2011.
    • The bank robbers were arrested.
    • English is spoken by many people around the world.

    We can talk about the agent in a passive sentence using the word by.

    • The Colombia shuttle was launched by NASA over 30 years ago.
    • The missing watch was found by a ten-year-old boy.