4th May 2020: Active and Passive Voice (KS2-3)

Red Task: Call up an elderly relative or friend and explain to them what active and passive voice is. Ask them to give you some of their own examples!

Orange Task: Create a brightly coloured poster that explains the difference between active and passive voice and gives lots of your own examples

Yellow Task: Have an ‘active voice hour’ and where possible try only to use active voice in your conversations. Once the hour is up, switch to ‘passive voice hour’. Which did you find easier and why? If this is tricky for you, ask your adult to do it and try to catch them out!

Green Task: Using either active or passive voice, write either a story, article or poem on a topic of your choice. Challenge yourself to do one of each!

Blue Task: Find a chapter from the book you are reading and identify/list examples of both active and passive voice.

Purple Task: Find a chapter from the book you are reading and rewrite any examples of active voice with a passive voice instead and vice versa. Does this change the overall effect of the chapter? Write a paragraph to explain your answer.

Note to parents

Today’s lesson was deliberately planned to cater for a wide range of abilities, needs and learning styles. It is virtually impossible to replicate the tailored lessons that a school classroom can offer, especially for such a broad mix of anonymous learners. Therefore, the aim of these lessons is to keep children using their brains, their creativity and (with any luck!) enjoying their learning. Tweak the tasks to suit your child and let me know how you get on.

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