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passives: more practice

Q Tenses. Put in simple present, simple past or future passive verbs.
► 'Frankenstein' by Mary Shelley, {write)

► The repairs before next Tuesday, {finish)

1 Butter.............................................. from milk, {make)
2 Last night two men............................................. in a fight in a nightclub, {kill)
3 One day all our work...............................................by machines, {do)
4 English.............................................. as a second language by millions of people. {speak)
5 This computer...............................................in Japan, {make)

6 All the footballers...............................................by a doctor before the match last Sunday, {examine)
7 This room...............................................every day. {clean)
8 You.............................................. of the test results as soon as possible. (inform)
9 The new road...............................................in July next year, {open)
10 Diamonds...............................................in several countries in Africa, {find)

0 Present progressive passive. Imagine that you are in a busy hotel at one o'clock.
All the hotel staff are on strike (they have stopped work) because they want more money.
Write sentences about six things that are not being done. Some useful words:

baggage bills coffee drinks food money
new guests reservations rooms telephones

Beds are iA,ot belrug vw a d e .

Q GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY: travelling by air. Make sure you know the words in the box.

Use a dictionary if necessary. Then imagine you are in an airport, and write six or
more sentences about what is being done.

SUBJECTS: arriving passengers baggage/ boarding passes cars
departures passports reservations tickets

VERBS: announce check make meet park print sell x -ra y /

ba g g a g e Is Joe l vyg ^c-r«u)_ed..

100 PASSIVES