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Passive. Fact Finder ESL/EFL Matching and Speaking Activity - Pre-intermediate - 25 Minutes For this particular teaching activity, learners work in small groups.

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Each group is given 20 sentences about facts and inventions, but each sentence is in two parts. Their task is to find 20 facts by matching the two parts of each sentence. All the sentences are in the present or past passive. ESL Conversation Questions - Passive Voice. 21 - Present Perfect x Present Perfect Progressive. This is a new activity for students to contrast the use of the present perfect and the present continuous tense uses.

21 - Present Perfect x Present Perfect Progressive

I hope you enjoy it. The movie is great! Before watching the segment: Discuss with a partner the following questions: 1) What's your opinion about gambling? Passive voice lesson - English grammar tutorial video lesson. Active and Passive Voice. Practice the Passive Voice with scenes from TV shows. Grammar: passives in conversation. By Lindsay Clandfield Lindsay Clandfield offers some advice and suggestions for practising the passive in conversation classes.

Grammar: passives in conversation

Any ideas about how to practise the passive (all tenses) in a conversation class? The students (30 energetic Italian pupils aged 15) have studied the passive forms with their usual English teacher. They can do written exercises to transform active to passive and vice versa and can construct passive sentences and questions (at least in theory). Now I, the conversation teacher, have been asked to practise the passive orally in my next 50 minute lesson.