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Unit 22: Beyond the planets
Present and past passive

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  1. 1Nice to meet you!
  2. 2What to wear
  3. 3Like this, like that
  4. 4The daily grind
  5. 5Christmas every day
  6. 6Great achievers
  7. 7The Titanic
  8. 8Travel
  9. 9The big wedding
  10. 10Sunny's job hunt
  11. 11The bucket list
  12. 12Moving and migration
  13. 13Welcome to BBC Broadcasting House
  14. 14New Year, New Project
  15. 15From Handel to Hendrix
  16. 16What's the weather like?
  17. 17The Digital Revolution
  18. 18A detective story
  19. 19A place to live
  20. 20The Cult of Celebrity
  21. 21Welcome to your new job
  22. 22Beyond the planets
  23. 23Great expectations!
  24. 24Eco-tourism
  25. 25Moving house
  26. 26It must be love
  27. 27Job hunting success... and failure
  28. 28Speeding into the future
  29. 29Lost arts
  30. 30Tales of survival

Session 3

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

ክፍለ-ስራሓት ናይዚ ምዕራፍ

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ድምር ነጥቢ ናይዚ ክፍለ-ስራሓት 3

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  1. Activity 1
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Activity 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. 

ኣገናዕ፡ ፈተናኹም ዛዚምኩም
Excellent!Great job!ሕማቕ ዕድል!ዘመዝገብኩምዎ ነጥቢ ...:
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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! 

ናይ ስዋስው ክፍሊ

  • 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.
ምሉእ መወከስ ስዋስው ተመልከት

መራገፊ ማእከል

ትሕዝቶ ናይ ሓድሽ ትምህርቲ