Grammar.
Correct the mistakes.
1. It is say that robots will do our housework in the
future.
2. Today solar-powered energy is use in Greece.
3. Two new schools was built in my town.
4. It is accept that wind energy has many
advantages.
5. The technology company’s new smartphone isn’t
to be released this year.
6. The robber was arrest by the police.
7. The computer is being fixed for the technician.
Present or past, active or passive?
1. The restaurant is open every day. _____________
(serve / we) food from 12 noon to 11:30 pm.
2. Last night a protestor ______________________
(arrest / the police)
3. The book Jane Eyre ________________________
(write / Charlotte Brontë) in the 1840s.
4. ___________________ (not speak / I) English at
home when I was young.
5. Are you surprised to see me here? I ___________
_______________ (invite / your sister) last week.
6. __________________________ (learn / a lot of
people) a different language at high school.
7. Yesterday the drawing _____________________
(make / the kid) with a lot of colours.
Write the sentences into the passive.
1. Julia didn’t rescue three cats from the garage.
2. The technicians have not repaired the rice cooker.
3. Children cannot move this TV easily.
4. She broke the fancy toaster.
5. He is going to prepare the fries with the fryer.
6. Our government will export a great amount of our
oil to other countries.
7. Private companies are making an effort to find
new sources of energy.
8. We must sell all these goods.
9. He has to deliver the letter by hand.
10. Mike drives his car very badly.
11. They have found your wallet.
Complete: past – present – future passives.
When the first episode of America’s Next Top Model
was broadcast (broadcast) on TV in 2003, it was the
beginning of a craze which spread all over the world.
In the first series, ten girls (1) __________________
(invite) to appear on the show and the winner (2)
_________________ (give) a contract with a
modelling agency. Today the programme (3)
_________________ (show) in many different
countries around the world. The girls (4)
_________________ (ask) to do different modelling
tasks each week – sometimes with dangerous animals!
In the next series, the girls (5) _________________
(tell) to do even crazier things for their photo shoots.
 Passive exercises

Decide whether the sentences are in the active or passive voice.

They often listen to music. → Lots of houses were destroyed by the earthquake in 1906. →

She is reading the newspaper now. → Henry Ford invented the assembly line. →

These cars are produced in Japan. → The bus driver was hurt yesterday. →

Alan teaches geography. → You should open your workbooks. →

German is spoken in Austria. → Houses have been built. →

Write the sentences in the passive voice.

The students handed in the reports. ____________________________________________________________________

Maria crashed into the blue car. ________________________________________________________________________

Alex learned the poem. _______________________________________________________________________________

Steven has forgotten the book. _________________________________________________________________________

The mechanic has not repaired the DVD recorder. __________________________________________________________

They play handball. __________________________________________________________________________________

Sue puts the rucksack on the floor. ______________________________________________________________________

The girls had lost the match. ___________________________________________________________________________

The teacher is not going to open the window. _____________________________________________________________

Reading.

Answer these questions.

1 – Who drew the pictures in Disney movies? _________________________________________________

2 – Who is the father of animation? _________________________________________________

Complete the sentences.

1. Thanks to _________________, animators only had to make one drawing of the background.
2. McCay was himself the _________________ of his films.
3. A film could take more than _________________ to be made.
4. Walt Disney _________________ a great cartoonist, but a great story editor and businessman.
5. To create movement by computer, you put an image and then you put a _________________ image with a small
change.

Choose the correct form of the verbs in brackets.

FIAT Fiat 0 was started (started / was started) by a group of Italian businessmen in 1899. In 1903, Fiat, 1 (produced

/ was produced) 132 cars. Some of these cars 2 (exported / were exported) by the company to the United States and

Britain. In 1920, Fiat 3 (started / was started) making cars at a new factory at Lingotto, near Turin. There was a track

on the roof where the cars 4 (tested / were tested) by technicians. In 1936, Fiat launched the Fiat 500. This car 5

(called / was called) the Topolino – the Italian name for Mickey Mouse. The company grew, and in 1963 Fiat 6

(exported / was exported) more than 300,000 vehicles. Today, Fiat is based in Turin, and its cars 7 (sold / are sold) all

over the world.