PASSIVE VOICE

Only transitive verbs (those with an object) can be made passive.

REMEMBER: you don't change the tense when you transform an active
sentence into a passive one. You just put the auxiliary verb in the
passive sentence in the same tense as in the active one.

SIMPLE PRESENT ----------------------- AM/IS/ARE + PAST PARTICIPLE

SIMPLE PAST ------------------------ WAS / WERE + PAST PART.

PRESENT CONTINUOUS -------------- IS/ARE BEING + PAST PART

PAST CONTINUOUS ------------------ WAS/ WERE BEING + PAST PART.

FUTURE SIMPLE -------------------- WILL BE + PAST PARTICIPLE

GOING TO -------------------- AM/IS/ARE + GOING TO BE + PAST PART.

PRESENT PERFECT ----------------- HAVE/HAS BEEN + PAST PART.

PAST PERFECT --------------------- HAD BEEN + PAST PART.

MODAL ------------------------------- MODAL + BE + PAST PART.

Practice

Complete the text with the correct form of the verbs, Present
Simple active or passive

CATCHING A PLANE

When you 1) (arrive) ______________ at an airport, you should go

straight to the check-in desk where your ticket and luggage 2) (check)
_______________. You 3) (keep) _____________ your hand luggage
with you but your suitcases 4) (take) ________________ to the plane
on a conveyor belt. You can now go to the departure lounge. If you are
on an international flight, your passport 5) (check) ______________,
and then your bags 6) (x-ray) ______________ by security cameras.
Sometimes you 7) (give) ______________ a body search and your
luggage 8) (search) ______________ by a security officer. You 9)
(wait) ____________ in the departure lounge until your flight 10) (call)
____________ and you 11) (tell) _______________ which gate number
to go to. Finally, you 12) (board) __________ your plane and you 13)
(show) ______________ to your seat by a flight attendant.

PAST SIMPLE: ACTIVE OR PASSIVE?

Complete the text by putting the verbs in brackets into the past
simple tense, active or passive.

HELEN KELLER

Helen Kellers deafness and blindness 1) (cause) ______________ by a

severe illness when she was a baby. Her parents 2) (not know)
_________________ what to do, and they 3) (find) __________ it
difficult to control their growing daughter. One day they 4) (tell)
______________ about a brilliant young teacher called Anne Sullivan.
She 5) (come) ____________ to work with Helen and, very firmly and
patiently, she 6) (teach) _____________ her that every object had a
name. Eventually, Helen 7) (offer) ____________ a place at university.
After this, she 8) (tour) _____________ the world helping people like
herself. In 1962, the story of her life 9) (make) _____________ into a
film, The Miracle Worker.