Newspaper reports: practising the passive
A beautifully structured series of activities on the use of the passive voice. Students start by using a newspaper report to analyse the use of the passive. They then do controlled practice through a gap-fill exercise and rewriting a paragraph using the passive. This is followed by freer practice in the context of a spoken interview with the witness to a robbery and then writing a newspaper report of the interview.
Two extracts from the lesson:
Exercise 2
Underline the verbs in the article. Which are active and which are passive? Write the active and passive verbs in the chart.
Exercise 5
Student B:
You were a witness to a bank robbery. A newspaper reporter (Student A) is going to interview you. Use the notes below to answer. Add additional information if possible. Use your imagination.
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