A selection of English ESL passive form passive voice printables

Great for inermediate to upper-intermediate students.It includes an exercise with two objects, 40 sentences for transforming without mentioning the agent of the action, and some texts with gaps to be completed with a proper passive or active form.

Passive voice

Passive Voice-students should turn Passive sentences to ACTIVE and there is the second execise with NEITHER & NOR (also good for practicing country names and people).

Passive-turn to ACTIVE form and NEITHER & NOR

This is a chart of grammar tenses ( Passive Voice) of all 10 tenses.It is valuable for studying and revising tenses. This chart gives students examples of how affirmatives, negatives and questions are formed and how they change in different tenses. 

Passive Voice

Students are given the form and usage on the passive voice - example of sentence transformation included. For the PRESENT SIMPLE there are 2 exercises - gap-filling + rephrasing. For the PAST SIMPLE there are two as well - rephrasing + matching with pictures. Greyscale and key included.

PASSIVE VOICE WITH SIMPLE PRESENT AND PAST

This is a fun group of pair activity to understand the structure of the passive voice in the simple present. They have to use ALL the pieces of paper.



I usually have students race to be the fist one on finishing forming the sentences.

Passive voice simple present

Exercise1: Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs in brackets. Use the Past Simple, Past Continuous or Past Perfect Simple. 



Exercise2: Use the verbs in brackets and form Conditional sentences type I or II. 



Exercise3: Complete the sentences either in active or passive voice. You must use either simple present or simple past 



Exercise4: Make questions. Pay attention to the words in BOLD 

Grammar Practice Past Tenses - Conditionals I,II  - Passive Voice – Questions

There is no warm-up activity. There are formula, examples, and then practice with multiple choices and written answers. 

It focuses on all tenses of passive voice: Present Simple, Past Simple, Present Perfect Simple & Past Perfect Simple, and Future forms such as Will and Be going to.

Passive Voice in various tenses

It's the first one in the series of passive voice, a three-exercise worksheet. At first, students have to supply the correct form of the verbs. Then they have to correct mistakes. Finally, they must complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first.

Active or passive

This worksheet was created to be used at the same time as passive voice is taught. I have a slightly different approach to it. I don't expect my students to memorize  the active and passive form of the verbs. I explain how to add the verb To Be in the same tense as the main verb and add the past participle of the main verb. Then I explain  the "who" and the "what" of the main verb and how to change the order in the passive sentence. Then just start turning active sentences into passive. 

I know it is unconventional ... I have a terrible time memorizing  things so I came up with this different approach. I have been using it for 20+ years and my students have passed FCE and  other exams and use it regularly  both when they write and talk. Hope it helps! 

This worksheet consists of various sentences of mixed tenses in active voice and the aim is to change them into the passive voice. There are more ways your students can do it, it´s up to you. However, you can do it with them (or just help them), or you can tell them to underline/highlight the tenses used in the sentences and circle the objects that will be transformed into subjects when forming the passive voice. I hope you find it useful and suitable for your students. Answer key is included.

This worksheet consists of various sentences of mixed tenses in active voice and the aim is to change them into the passive voice. There are more ways your students can do it, it´s up to you. However, you can do it with them (or just help them), or you can tell them to underline/highlight the tenses used in the sentences and circle the objects that will be transformed into new subjects when forming the passive voice. I hope you find it useful and suitable for your students. Answer key is included. 

PASSIVE VOICE - MIXED TENSES

This is a fun spoken exercise for pupils to practise the passive voice. Correct forms must be found and the correct information must be added... If you are not sure what is asked for, don't hesitate to write me a message. I use the worksheet as a starter or to give breaks in written tasks

Practising the passive voice

Culture, intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication

Adjectives to describe feelings, emotions

Adjectives to describe personality and character

Adjectives: Gradable / Non-gradable adjectives

Articles: Definite or indefinite article (a, an or the)

BE + infinitive structures (e.g. he was to become famous)

Clauses of contrast (e.g.  although, while)

Clauses of purpose (e.g. in order to, so that, so as to)

Clauses of reason (e.g. because, because of, due to, as, since)

Cleft sentences (e.g. It's Joey we're looking for)

Comparison: Comparative adjectives and structures

Comparison: Superlative adjectives and structures

Conditional 2 (second conditional) - would

Conditionals: Conditional phrases (e.g. unless, provided that, as long as)

Conjunctions (aka connectives, e.g. and, but, or, so, then)

Contractions (shortened forms, e.g. don't, aren't, etc.)

Determiners (words that can come before nouns)

Formal and informal English (politeness or colloquial language)

Future perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Future perfect simple and continuous (progressive) tense

Future phrases (e.g. be about to, bound to, likely to, due to, set to + INF)

Homonyms (two words with the same pronunciation - homophones and homographs)

It as preparatory subject (e.g. it's raining, it's nice of you to)

Linking verbs (aka copulas, e.g. I am a student)

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Nouns: Collective nouns (team, class, family, committee)

Nouns: Proper nouns (names of people, cities, companies)

Oxymorons (phrases with words of contradictory meaning, e.g. living dead)

Participles: Past participle (e.g. HAVING DONE)

Participles: Present participle (e.g. DOING)

Parts of Speech (aka word classes, e.g. nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)

Past perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Phonetics (pronunciation, IPA, phonetic symbols)

Plural nouns: regular plurals with S ending

Prefixes (e.g. A, UN, IM, DIS, MIS, EN, etc. )

Prepositions vs adverbs (e.g. before me, saw him before.)

Prepositions: Double prepositions (e.g. out of)

Prepositions: Participle prepositions (e.g. pending, concerning)

Prepositions: Phrase prepositions (e.g. by means of)

Present perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Present perfect simple or present continuous tense

Present simple tense: S for third person singular verbs

Present simple vs continuous (progressive) tense

Pronouns: EACH OTHER, ONE ANOTHER (reciprocal pronouns)

Pronouns: Possessive pronouns (e.g. my, mine)

Pronouns: Reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself, yourself))

Pronouns: SOMEBODY, ANYBODY, EVERYBODY, NO ONE, NOTHING, etc.

Pronouns: THIS, THAT, THESE, THOSE (demonstratives)

Pronouns: YOU and THEY to talk about people in general

Quantifiers (e.g. some, many, much, any, few, little)

Questions: WH questions (open-ended questions)

Reported speech: reported questions (indirect questions)

There is / there are / there was / there were / there will be, etc.

Verbs: Transitive or intransitive verbs (words that can or cannot stand with objects)

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75 Passive form passive voice English ESL worksheets pdf & doc