For Pre-Intermediate EFL students. Click through to find out about the passive by making sentences and answering questions based on the pictures

1. What do these pictures
have in common?

2. The Passive.
How do we make the passive?

3. The Passive.
To Be + Participle

4. The Passive.
What participles can you see?

5. PARTICIPLES
born
grown
sold
made
told
designed
served

6. What's the difference?
"We sell good food here"
"Good food is served here"

7. What's the difference?
"We sell good food here"
"Good food is served here"
We put the important thing at the beginning of the
sentence. So here we emphasise "Good food"

8. THE PASSIVE
The Present Passive
TO BE PARTICIPLES
born
I
grown
You
sold
He
made
She
am told
It
is designed
We
are served
They

9. Make sentences
1) Laptops are
designed by Dell
2) Jeans are made by Levis
3) 4)
5)
6) 7)

10. Make sentences
1) Laptops are
designed by Dell
2) Jeans are made by Levis
3) Clothes 4) DVDs are
are made 5) Shirts
made by
by Nike are made
Sony
by Armani
6) I-Pods are 7) Cars are made
made by Apple by Ferrari

11. Make sentences
Use the participles -
MAKE (X 2), GROW, SERVE, SELL, POST,
1) Vodka is made in Russia 2) 3)
4) 5)
6)

12. Make sentences
Use the participles -
MAKE (X 2), GROW, SERVE, SELL, POST,
3) McNuggets are served
1) Vodka is made in Russia 2) Tea is grown in India
in McDonalds
5) Stamps are sold in the post
4) Films are made in Hollywood office
6) Letters are posted in the
post box