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    9B The passive (present simple and past simple)

    1 Complete the article with the correct present or past passive form of the verbs in brackets.

    One of the first music players, the phonograph, 1 (invent) by Thomas


    Edison in 1877. This 2
    (follow) by the gramophone a few years later.
    The gramophone used flat records which 3 (make) of glass at first,
    and then of plastic.

    In 1906, the record player 4 (introduce) by RCA Victor. In the 1940s, the
    composer and inventor Les Paul started to experiment with multitrack recorders. By the
    1960s, most popular music 5 (record) on these machines. Cassette players became popular
    in the 1970s. Cassettes 6
    (use) by many people to record their favourite songs from the radio
    or from records.

    Today, smartphones 7 (use) as music players and songs 8 (buy) online.


    The popular song Happy by Pharrell Williams 9
    (download) more than 1.6 million times in 2014.

    2 Put the words in the correct order to make present or past passive sentences.
    Remember that we usually put adverbs before the past participle in passive sentences.
    1 in 2001 / was / iPod / first / The / introduced
    .
    2 stolen / My / was / yesterday / laptop
    .
    3 radio / by / invented / was / The / Marconi
    .
    4 often / classroom / Tablets / our / used / in / are
    .
    5 always / This / phone / charged / at night / is
    .
    6 produced / Toshiba / are / in Japan / computers
    .
    7 are / of / Phones / plastic / usually / made
    .
    8 before / Our / never / switched / 9 p.m. / is / on / dishwasher
    .

    3 SPEAKING Work in pairs. Play ‘Guess the country’.


    Student A Think of a country. Make three sentences about the country,
    using the passive. You can use the ideas below or your own ideas.
    •• … are / is produced here.
    •• … was / were invented by someone from this country.
    •• … are / is grown here.
    •• … was born here.
    •• … is spoken here.
    Student B Try to guess Student A’s country.

    Solutions Third Edition Pre-Intermediate photocopiable © Oxford University Press

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