1.- Complete the sentences using the present simple passive.

a) Coffee

GROW in Brasil and Colombia.

b) Kangaroos
c)

meat

d) El Prado
e) How often
f) Dogs

SEE in America.
EAT in Spain?
VISIT by hundreds of people every day.
general elections

HOLD ?

EAT in restaurants in most countries.

2.- Put the sentences into the past simple passive.

a) Etienne Lenoir made the first motor car in Belgium.

b) How many paintings did the police found?

c) I didnt paint Las Meninas.

d) Lennon and McCartney wrote the song Yesterday.

e) The government ordered them to build a new bridge.

f) When did Cook discover Australia?

3.- Put these sentences into the passive (present or past)

a) The airline sent our passage to Australia by mistake.

b) Farmers grow soy in Argentina.

c) People export Spanish tortilla to the US.

d) El Greco painted The Burial of the Count of Orgaz.

e) You dont find penguins at the North Pole.

f) Columbus didnt discover America in 1491.

g) They draw some paintings.

h) My uncle sold the bicycle.

i) The child broke all the plates in the cupboard.

j) She didnt find the book.

4.- Write questions for these answers in the passive form.

a) Yes, rice is grown in Spain.

b) Yes, the song was sung by them.

c) No, the trees werent cut down.

d) No, the story isnt known.

e) Yes, he was told to be quiet.

5.- Put these questions into the passive.

a) When did Pasteur discover Penicillin?
b) How do people make sushi?
c) Where do people speak Mandarin?
d) Did Spain win the last basketball Olympics?
e) Do people speak English in Hawaii?
f) Who directed the film Princesas?

6.-Turn into passive voice Wink

a) The company employs 1,000 people.

b) They built this school in 1890

c) John delivers the newspaper in the morning

d) He sold his car last week

e) Did you win the tennis match?

f) What do they include in the service?

g) She didn't find the keys

h) When did you water the plants?

i) Nobody invited her to the party

j) The earthquake destroyed many houses

7.-Complete the sentences with the present or past simple passive of the
verb in brackets.
How many newspapers(print)
Who(this play / write)
German(speak)

in Britain every day?

by?

in Germany, Austria, and part of Switzerland.

The royal wedding(watch)

Nowadays, a lot of computers(make)

by millions of people in 2011.

in Korea.

The Harry Potter films(not direct)

by Steven Spielberg.

How much(paper / recycle)

in Poland each year?

In the UK, alcohol(not sell)

to anyone under 18. It's against the

law.

8.- Active or Passive voice?

a) A tunnel (start)

in 1878 but it

Several people (kill)

b) Someone last

(not complete).

during the construction of the tunnel.

(see) her on Tuesday evening. She was wearing a

red dress.
c) In which country they (make)
d) A woman (clean)

most bicycles?

her apartment everyday. Last month it

(redecorate).
e) Once a month an astrologer (tell)
f) English (speak)

her fortune.
all over the world.

g) A new school

(open) by the local authorities

h) My uncle (paint)

this picture. He

money for it.

i)
j) She (call)

you

(frighten) by the noise?

a witch.

(offer) a lot of