In this activity, students will work with news texts that use the passive voice to describe unusual events. The goal is to identify, understand, and produce passive structures in both present and past contexts.


First, students will read a set of newspaper-style headlines and decide whether each one is written in the present passive or the past passive. They will also review the basic structure of passive voice forms.


Next, they will read a short news article and identify passive sentences within the text. They will also complete comprehension questions (True/False) based on specific information from the story, correcting false statements using evidence from the text.


After that, students will choose the correct passive form in a series of contextual sentences, distinguishing between present and past passive according to time markers and meaning.


Finally, students will rewrite active headlines into passive voice and complete a guided news story using a word bank, applying passive structures accurately in a realistic journalistic context.

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Passive voice: The news

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Let's do English ESL general grammar practice. In this activity, students will work with news texts that use the passive voice to describe unusual events. The g…