games and activities, ideas to teach and drill Passive Voice

2. A Funny contest
Who had the strictest parents?
When you were a child:
Were you sent to bed at a certain time?
Were you allowed to watch as much TV as you liked?
Were you made to do your homework every night?
Were you allowed to eat as many sweets as you liked?
Were you bought a lot of toys?
Were you ever smacked (отшлепать)?
When you were a teenager:
Were you allowed to wear what you wanted?
Were you given a certain time to be in at night?
Were you allowed to go out as often as you wanted?
Were you allowed to have parties at home?
Were you given a large amount of pocket money?
Were you made to help with the housework?

3. Passive Voice Casino (playing cards with passive voice)
2 piles – the beginnings and the endings; shuffle the ‘beginnings’, a player takes his pack of ‘beginnings’ and 1 card – from
‘ending’s, makes up a sentence; if it makes sense – they get 1 point; the winner is the player (or the team) with the highest
score
Coffee South America
Kangaroos Australia
Cars metal
rice India
furniture wood
Gold South Africa
paper clips to hold pieces of paper together
lions Africa
camels North Africa
silk China
A can opener to open tins
tea China
pens for writing
books Paper
wheat North America
Oil Kuwait
keys to open doors
tigers India
sugar The Caribbean
a corkscrew for opening bottles
Cotton India
a hammer to bang nails into wo
a thermometer To measure temperature
a pump to inflate tires

5. Topic:
Wonders of the world
Encourage
your students to speak about
Wonders of the world –
ancient and modern,
play the game, set up a contest….

6. http://www.panoramas.dk/fullscreen/fullscreen23.html
Topic: Modern Wonders of the world
http://www.unmuseum.org/7wonders/

7. http://www.taj-mahal.net/
Topic:
Wonders of the world

8. Topic: Paintings
Encourage
your students to speak about
Wonders of the world –
ancient and modern,
play the game, set up a contest….

9. Topic: Paintings

10. Topic: Paintings

11. Topic: Photos

12. Topic: Celebrations

13. Topic: Funny inventions
Who can give a better explanation what the inventions is used for?
Which invention has more chances to be used by all people?

14. Topic: Funny inventions

15. Topic: Funny inventions

16. http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/10-strange-japanese-inventions-you-won-t-
believe-are-real
Topic: Funny inventions

17. http://blog.jempp.com.au/2008/11/unusual-inventions_22.html
Topic: Funny inventions

18. http://www.survivingateacherssalary.com/make-your-own-unusual-inventions/
Topic: Funny inventions