Tài liệu Unit 16 language focus - Grade 12

Unit 16: SCHOOL
EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
Lesson 5:
Language focus
Grammar: PASSIVE VOICE

Contents Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
I.WARMER: (5 minutes)
ACT IT OUT
1. You are stolen money.
2. You are killed
3. You are kissed
4. You are hit on the head
5. You are bitten (by a dog)


II. PRESENTATON: (10 minutes)
Task 1:
Decide whether the statements are active or passive by
Choosing the best answers:
1. Everybody_____by the terrible news yesterday.
a. shocked
b. was shock
2. Mr. Green _____ at the University since 1989
a. has been teaching
b. has been taught
3. Not much_____ about the accident since that time.
a. has said
b. has been said
4. The secretary _____ to her new boss yesterday.
a. introduced

- T divides the class
into team A and team B,
gives instructions:
“I have 5 cards, at one
time, I need one
volunteer to come here
to choose one of them
and act the action on it,
so that your friends can
guess what happens to
the volunteer. The team
raising hand first can
answer. The winner will
be the one who can get
higher mark”.
- T plays game and
control the class.
- T asks Ss to work
individually.
- T goes around
helping.
- T asks Ss to compare
their answers.
- T calls some Ss give
their answer.
- T corrects with whole
class.
- Ss listen to the rule
carefully and join in the
game.

- Ss work individually.
- Ss share their answers
with each other.
- Ss correct with T
b. was introduced
5. He _____ responsible for the accident.
a. was held
b. was holding
6. A prize ______ to whoever solves this equation
a. will be given
b. will be giving
Keys:
1. b 2. a 3. b 4. b 5. a 6. a
Useful Knowledge:
Active: Mr. Brown wrote the report yesterday.
S V O
Passive: The report was written by Mr. Brown yesterday
S V ( be+PP) O
Remember these things:
1. The position of adverbs:
• Ex: The chairs are being carried into the house by
his children
 Adverbs of place stand before By + Agent.
• Ex: This report will be read by Dr.Blake at 2pm.
 Adverbs of time stand after By + Agent.
• Ex: They have been badly treated by the boss.
 Adverb of manner usually stand between be and past
participle.
2.
Ex: My leg hurts.=> can’t change into passive voice

 Sentences with intransitive verbs can not change into
passive voice.
3.
Ex: He made me do it.
- I was made to do it.
 Verbs of perception like see, hear, watch, notice, and the
verbs make, know have to go with infinitive with TO

III. PRACTICE: (17 minutes)
Task 2:
Rewrite the following the following sentences using the
passive voice for the underlined verbs.
See book on pages 45 & 46.
Keys:
1. will be required, is required
2. is usually considered
3. must be taught
4. was ended
- From task 1, T elicits
Ss the structure of
passive voice.
- T shows examples
first and asks Ss to
answer the grammatical
point of the lesson, so
that they can absorb the
knowledge long.
- T explains more about
the lesson.
- T asks Ss to work

individually in 5
minutes.
- T goes around
helping.
- T asks Ss to compare
their answers with each
other.
- T calls some Ss go to
the board and give their
answers.
- Ss observe the
examples and answer
the T’s questions.
- Ss listen carefully and
take notes.
- Ss work individually.
- Ss compare their
answers with each
other.
- Some Ss go to the
board while others
observe.
5. should have been paid
6. have recently been helped
7. is reported
8. had been closely watched.
Task 3:
Rewrite the following sentences in the opposite voice:
1. They still deny women the right to vote in some
country.

2. All the arrangement for the journey has been made.
3. Someone has brought this child up very badly.
4. Medical care will be brought to the poor in our rural
areas.
5. I wish everybody had been invited to our wedding.
6. You should place matches out of reach of children.
7. Somebody has just sent a box of flowers to you.
8. People don’t learn languages in a short time.
9. What sort of experiment are they doing in the
laboratory?
Answers:
1. Women are still denied the right to vote.
Or: The right to vote is still denied woman in some…
2. We have made all the arrangement for the journey.
3. This child has been very badly brought up
4. They will bring medical care to the poor in our rural
areas
5. I wish we had invited every body to our wedding.
6. Matches should be placed out of reach of children.
7. A box of flowers has just been sent to you.
8. Languages aren’t learned in a short time.
9. What sort of experiment is being done in the
laboratory?
IV. FURTHER PRACTICE:(10 minutes)
A potato farmer was sent to prison at just the time
when he should have been digging the ground for planting
the new crop of potatoes. He knew that his wife was not
strong enough to do the digging by herself but she could
manage to do the planting. So he wrote a letter to his wife
“Please, do not dig the potato field, I hid the money and

gun there”.
Work in groups of four make up the end of the story by
using passive voice.
V. HOMEWORK: (3minutes)
- At home, run through again the lesson to consolidate
the main grammatical points.
- Do Task 4 in handout (Rewrite the sentences).
- T calls other Ss to
repeat the answers.
- T checks with the
whole class.
- T lets Ss to play a
board game. T give
instructions:
“I divide class into team
A and team B. Each
team has 1 die, and
takes turn to roll the die
and move forward.
When you stop at one
number you will do the
correspondent sentence
in task 3. If you are
correct you can stay on
the new space, if
incorrect, you will
move back to where
you were. The winner
will be the one who can
reach the finish.

- T plays game and
controls the class.
- T lets Ss work in
group of four.
- T goes around helping
Ss with ideas,
structures, vocabulary...
- T calls some groups to
present.
- T gives assignment
- Ss check the answers
with T.
- Ss listen to the rule
and enjoy the game.
- Ss practice in groups.
- Some Ss present and
others listen.
- Ss take notes.