232 how is toothpaste made

The following chart describes the manufacturing process of toothpaste
production. Imagine that you are a worker at a toothpaste factory and you
are asked to give a detailed description of your work. Use the given facts
and rewrite them using the Passive Voice.
Trucks
transport raw
material to
the factory.

Machines and
people weigh
the ingredients.

A machine
opens the
opposite end of
the tubes.

A machine
caps the
tubes.
A sealing
machine
seals the
ends.

A filling machine
fills the tubes.

Customers
buy

toothpaste.

Assistants put
toothpaste on
shelves.

Machines
mix the
ingredients.

A blower blows
dust out of the
tubes.
A printer
stamps a
code on the
tubes.

Trucks take
the boxes to
stores.

Sensors watch the
temperature
closely.

A special vacuum
cleans the tubes.
Machines or
people insert

the tubes into
open
paperboard
boxes.
They case the
boxes.

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Follow up Activity
Do some research to find out how other ordinary products such as potato
chips, pencils, ballpoint pens, bikes, etc are manufactured. Draw a chart
and give a presentation to your mates using the Passive Voice.