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Aim

To practise the passive

Activity
Students make passive sentences by connecting sentence halves.
Organization
Pair work
Preparation
Make enough copies of the activity for the pairs of students in your class.
Cut and mix up sentences.
What do I do?
1 Divide students into pairs and give them the cut up passive sentences.
2 Ask students to make sentences by matching the first half of a sentence to the second half.
3 Get feedback from different pairs.

Coffee is | produced in Brazil
Tea is | made in India
My car has been | stolen
The dog was | left outside all night
Millions of emails are | sent every day
The flight was | delayed
Hamlet was | written by Shakespeare
The computer has been | fixed
My house is | cleaned every week
Kangaroos are | found in Australia
Titanic was | directed by James Cameron

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