PASSIVE VOICE + COMPOUND ADJECTIVES

PASSIVE VOICE + COMPOUND ADJECTIVES
A. Objectives:
By the end the lesson, students will be able use passive voice and compound
adjectives correctly.
B. Procedures:
*.Grammar:
1.Compound adjectives ( tính từ ghép) .
Chúng ta có thể thành lập tính từ kép theo cáh sau:
Noun

V-ing

compound adj

Rice

cooking

rice-cooking.

Fire

making

fire- making

Car

making

car- making.

Flower

arranging

flower- arranging.

2.Passive voice: câu bị động:
Ví dụ:
I kick the ball

 The ball is kicked by me.

I kiked the ball  The ball was kicked by me.
I have kicked the ball  The ball has been kicked by me.
I will kick the ball  The ball will be kicked by me
B. Exercises:
I. Fill in each gap with one suitable compound noun in the box.

bullfighting/ ice skating/ bird-watching/ weightlifting
water-fetching/ air-conditioning/ zebra crossing/
window-shopping
1. My father likes _______. He spends lots of hours watching the birds.
2. In _______, a traditional public entertainment in Spain, bulls are fought and usually killed in a

bullring.
3. _______ is the activity of lifting heavy objects as a sport or as exercise.
4. She enjoys looking at goods displayed in shop windows, so she goes _______ very often.

5. ________ is the activity of skating on ice.
6. In the _________ contest, one person from each team has to run to the river to get the water.
7. ________ is a system that made the air inside a building, room or vehicle cool.
8. Pedestrians must cross the street on _________.

II. Change the following sentences into the passive voice.
1. Clement Clarke Moore wrote the poem “A visit from Saint Nicholas.”
2. They performed Christmas songs for people in town.
3. Santa Claus gave children presents on Christmas Eve.
4. My father decorated the Christmas tree with colored lights.
5. Miss Thanh taught me to draw the Christmas cards.
6. Ba invited Liz to the rice-cooking festival.
7. They held the festival in the communal house yard.
8. The council leader awarded the first prize to the Mekong team.

III. Change these sentences into the active voice.
1. The Christmas trees were decorated and put at the front doors.
2. His painting will be exhibited for the first time by New Arts gallery.
3. How often are these animals fed?
4. French isn’to taught in this school.
5. Was this symphony written by Mozart?
6. A new supermarket is going to be built next year.
7. Most of the questions can be answered by Name.
8. My camera was stolen from my hotel room a few days ago.

IV. Put the verbs into the correct form: presents simple or past simple, active or passive.
1. It’s a big factory. Five hundred people (employ) ________ there.
2. Water (cover) ________ most of the Earth’s surface.
3. The letter (post) ________ a week ago and it (arrive) ______ yesterday.
4. The boat (sink) ________ quickly but fortunately everybody (rescue) ________.

5. Ron’s parents (die) __________ when he was very young. He and his sister (bring) _________

up by their grandparents.
6. The gate (lock) ________ at 6.30 pm everyday.


7. Sue (bear) _________ in London but she (grow) ________ up in the north of England.
8. We (not/ play) _________ football yesterday afternoon. The match (cancel) _________.
9. Originally the book (write) _________ in Spanish and a few years ago it (translate) ________

into English.
10. I saw an accident last night. Somebody (call) _______ an ambulance but nobody (injure) so

the ambulance (not/ need) ________.
* Homework:
- Learn by heart grammar.
- Do the exercises on the workbook.
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