GOOD

MORNING!
OBJECTIVES:
Through an intensive discussion, the
students should be able to:
A. differentiate active from
passive voice using
example sentences;
OBJECTIVES:

B. identify active tenses

and passive voice using a
table; and
OBJECTIVES:

C. construct sentences
using active and passive
voice.
 Active and Passive
Construction in
Journalistic Writing
ACTIVE TENSES:
Simple Present
Here comes
Present action or the bus
condition
Present Activity in I am playing
basketball
Progressive progress now.
 ACTIVE TENSES:
We visited
Completed
Simple Past the museum Action
yesterday
They were Past action
that took
Past climbing for
place over a
Progressive twenty-seven
period of
days time
ACTIVE TENSES:
With I will get up
will/won’t- early
activity or tomorrow
Future
event that will
or won’t exist
or happen in
the future
ACTIVE TENSES:
Present With verbs of He has lived
Perfect state that here for many
begin in the years
past and lead
up to and
include the
present
ACTIVE TENSES:
To express David has been
duration of an working for two
action that hours, and he
Present Perfect begin in the past hasn’t finished
Progressive , has continued yet.
into the present,
and may
continue into
the future
ACTIVE TENSES:
To describe a
past event or When I
condition arrived
Past Perfect completed home, he
had
before
already
another event called.
in the past
ACTIVE TENSES:
By next month To express
we will have action that
will be
Future finished this
completed
Perfect job. by or before
a specified
time in the
future
Passive Voice
Subject + Auxiliary Verb
(be) + Main verb (past
participle)
Passive Voice
Example:
• Water is drunk by everyone
• 100 people are employed by
the company
Use of the Passive Voice
• We want to make the active
object more important

President Kennedy was killed

by Lee Harvey Oswald
Use of the Passive Voice
• We do not know the active
subject

My wallet has been stolen

Active and Passive Construction
present I wash it It is
washed
past I washed it It was
washed
Simple
future I will wash it It will be
washed
conditional I would It would
wash it be washed
Active and Passive Construction
present I am It is being
washing it washed
past I was It was
Continuous
washing it being
washed
future I will be It will be
washing it being
washed
Active and Passive Construction

conditional I would be It would

Continuous washing be being
washed
Active and Passive Construction
present I have washed It has been
it washed
past I had washed it It had been
washed
Perfect future I will have It will have
washed it been washed
conditional I would have It would have
washed it been washed
On a 1 whole sheet of paper,
construct active and passive
sentences using the following
pictures:
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Assignment:
Look for latest headlines in
newspapers. Write them on a
½ crosswise and beside every
headline, rewrite it in active
voice if it is in passive voice
and passive voice if it is in
active voice.