TEACHING ACTIVE AND
PASSIVE VOICE IN THE
SIMPLE PAST TENSE
-AIMAN HUSSAIN (16ETM12)
YASIR NASEEM (16ETM17)
BUSHRA AHMAD (16ETM05)
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CONTENTS
TITLE SLIDE NO.
PARAMETERS 3
LESSON OBJECTIVES 4
TEACHING MATERIALS 5
PRESENTATION AND ISOLATION 6-8
EXPLANATION 9-10
PRACTICE 11-17
TESTING 18-19
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PARAMETERS
• AREA: Grammar
• TOPIC: Active and Passive Voice in the Simple Past Tense
• APPROACH: Inductive, Communicative
• ASSUMED LEARNERS’ LEVEL: Pre-Intermediate
• TIME: 2 hours
• SKILLS: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing
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LESSON OBJECTIVES
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
i. Identify and differentiate between active and
passive voice in the simple past tense
ii. Convert sentences from active to passive and
passive to active in the simple past tense
iii. Construct sentences using the passive voice in
the simple past tense
with 70-75% precision
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TEACHING MATERIALS
• Whiteboard/Blackboard
• Students’ worksheets
• Placards
• Authentic material (keys, etc.)
• Projector/poster for visual support
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PRESENTATION AND
ISOLATION
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Activity 1: Interactive presentation of Active and
Passive voice by performing actions.
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Activity 2: Presentation of a newspaper clip containing
samples of passive voice in the Simple Past tense.
Instructions – Read the following newspaper article and
underline the sentences containing Simple Past Tense. Identify
and separately list the active and passive sentences.
• Cross check and confirm answers
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EXPLANATION
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• Does the subject of the sentence perform the
action or receive it?
• Subject performs the action sentence is active
• Subject receives the action sentence is passive
• Explanation of form
• S + V III form) + O Active Voice
• O + was/were + V III form (+ by + S) Passive Voice
• Rules of use
• Function
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PRACTICE
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Activity 3: Call out a group of three students and
give one placard to each student. (containing S,
V, O)
E.g. Shyam, dropped, the phone
Instructions – Arrange yourselves in such an order so as
to form an active/passive sentence using the given
words.
• If active, what will be added to make passive
• If passive, what will be deleted to make active
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Activity 4: Multiple Choice Questions on football (With
pictures of the action). Brainstorm about football.
Instructions – Choose the correct Passive form of the following
sentences.
E.g. The player kicked the ball.
a. The ball is kicked by the player.
b. The player was kicked by the ball.
c. The ball was kicked by the player.
d. The ball kicked the player.
The referee blew the whistle.
The goalkeeper saved the goal.
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Activity 5: Matching of Active sentences with
their corresponding Passive sentences.
Instructions – Pick one chit each from the box. Taking turns, read
your sentence aloud and tell whether it is in Active Voice or
Passive Voice. The student with the equivalent Active/Passive
sentence will raise hands and read out their sentence.
E.g. The students watched the teacher Passive
The teacher watched the students Passive
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Activity 6: Gap-filling in dialogue. Show picture
and brainstorm
Instructions –
Maria visits the Art museum
with her Dad.
Read the dialog between them
and fill the blanks with the passive
form of the verbs in the brackets.
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Maria: Who’s this?
Dad: It’s the famous painting Mona Lisa.
Maria: Oh, I’ve heard of it. But I’ve never seen it.
Dad: It _____________(paint) by Leonardo Da Vinci. It’s beautiful, isn’t it?
Maria: Yes, it is. When _______________it ____________ (make)?
Dad: I don’t exactly know. It’s very old.
Maria: I wonder why it is so famous.
Dad: Do you know? It became more famous after it __________ (steal) by a
thief from the museum.
Maria: Really? But who was Mona Lisa?
Dad: She was the wife of a wealthy silk merchant. The details of the painting
____________ (confirm) only in 2005 after some documents ____________
(discover) by a scholar at a German university.
Maria: I see. Let’s see the next painting. 16
Activity 7: Pair work and conversion from Active
to Passive Voice.
Instructions – Look at the picture and write a paragraph of about
5-6 lines using Simple Past Tense in the Active Voice. Exchange
paragraphs with your partner and convert theirs into the Passive
voice.
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TESTING
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Activity 8: Homework
Instructions – Write a short biography of a famous
personality who died, using at least 5 sentences in the
passive voice.
E.g. Maya Angelou was known around the world as a writer and
civil rights activist. Her books and poems were read by millions
of people. In her early childhood, she was raised by her
grandmother.
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CONCLUSION
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THANK YOU
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