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Good morning!

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• Reading skills to discuss personality and its origin.

• Listening skills practice to examine the impact of birth order.

• Unit 8 Preview• Identify use and structure of the passive

voice.• Reading and speaking practice to

recommend a museum p. 89

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Passive and Active Voice?

•Recommend a museum

1. I enjoy having dinner surrounded by crystal-clear water.2. You can watch exotic fish swim by your table.3. The restaurant was built as part of a luxury resort.4. It was opened in April 2005.

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Passive Voice

•Recommend a museum

OIt is used when we don’t know who did the action or when the person who did the action is not important.OIt is used to focus on what was done, rather than on who did it.OIt starts with the direct object of the sentence.OIt is ALWAYS used with the verb ‘to be’.

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Passive Voice

•Recommend a museum

OIt is used when we don’t know who did the action or when the person who did the action is not important.

OIt is used to focus on what was done, rather than on who did it.

OIt starts with the direct object of the sentence.

OIt is ALWAYS used with the verb ‘to be’.

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•Recommend a museum

• Active voice

• Passive voice

1. My boss sends an email.2. My boss sent an email.3. My boss is sending an email.4. My boss was sending an email.5. My boss will send an email.6. My boss has sent an email.7. My boss is going to send an email.

OBJECT verb to be Main verb AGENT in the tense in past participle

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• Active voice

Passive voice structure:

1. My boss sends an email.2. My boss sent an email.3. My boss is sending an email.4. My boss was sending an email.5. My boss will send an email.6. My boss has sent an email.7. My boss is going to send an

email.

OBJECT verb to be Main verb AGENT in the tense in past participle

• Passive voice

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Exercises

• (Active to passive) http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/passive/exercises?06

• http://www.nonstopenglish.com/exercise.asp?exid=595

• (Direct passive) http://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-68552.php

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•Recommend a museum

Exercises

1. Listen to the conversation to recommend a museum on p. 89.

2. Read the information from a museum 3. Recommend a museum to one of your

classmates.

Activity: Reading and Speaking. Follow the instructions below.