36670 passive tenses news

PASSIVE VOICE TENSES
NEWS
Match the verb with the blanks. Then decide if they are active or passive, and put them
in the right tense/form.

OCTOGENARIAN PROTEST
Pensioner Maude Jennings _________________ her eightieth birthday outside Avonhurst Town yesterday. She
was one of a large group who _______________ against the plans for a tunnel under the River Severn. Maude’s
tiny cottage may ___________________ when new roads to the tunnel ___________________. Maude was
born in the cottage, which ____________________ in the 18 th century, and the entrance to the tunnel
_______________________ at the ends of her garden. Maude ________________ our reporter, ‘I
__________________________ by the planners, and I __________________ never ____________ my lovely
home. I ________________________ there for eighty years!
Verbs: demolish – build (3) – live - consult – celebrate – protest – leave – tell

A VERY HAPPY TIGER
Butcher Graham Dewhurst couldn’t _________________ his eyes yesterday morning
when his first costumer of the day _____________________ a 350-kilo Bengal tiger.
Graham __________________‘I ___________________ the door at 8:30, and it just
______________________ into the shop. I nearly __________________ a heart attack!
Anyway,
it
__________________________
behind
the
counter,
and
______________________ eating. It _______________ there for half an hour. I
___________________ it more meat every few minutes. The police ______________
outside, but they ___________________ afraid to _________________ in. Finally, Mr.
Herriot, the local vet, __________________ and _____________________ it a tranquilizer

injection. Apparently it
____________________ from a truck while it
____________________ to a safari park.
Verbs: be (4) – have – say – jump – take – start – believe – give (2) – escape – come (3) – open

REPORTER ARRESTED

NEW SUPERSTORE OPENS

TV reporter Gavin Prendergast ________________
by Avon Police during a demonstartion outside the
Town Hall. Mr. Prendergast and protest leader Sybil
Fawthrop _____________ at the police station
overnight.

A
mammoth
new
superstore
____________________
by
local
TV
personality Nicholas Pritchard today.
The
Safegate
superstore
__________________ just outside Hidley,
close to Junction 6 on the M36.

Verbs: hold – arrest

Verbs: open – be


ROW AT ETV SOUTH-WEST NEWS

Angela Shannon is to leave ETV! The surprise announcement ______________ at 8 o’
clock this morning. The ETV news ________________ by Angela for nearly two years.
She _________________ a job by the BBC. Angela ___________ ‘ I _____________
a professional. My job _______________ very important to me, but there
___________ too many technical problems at ETV. `I __________________ enough!
Verbs: read – have – be (3) – come – say – offer

POMPEII
Pompeii………………………(be) an ancient town in Italy which ……………………………(destroy) when
a volcano ……………………………(erupt) in 79 AD. The lava and the ash from the eruption of Mount
Vesuvius …………………………(bury) the town along with everything and everyone in it.
While archaeologists …………………… (study) the ruins, they ………………………….. (uncover) many
objects among the ruins.
Nowadays, the town is a popular tourist attraction and it …………………… (visit) by thousands of people
each year. They……………………( walk) along the streets which…………………………(be) once a part of
the busy market town and ……………………… (be) now an important part of history. This year, it
………………………………(visit) by fifty thousand people. This month, the site ………………………..
(close) because it………………………..(repair).