Passive of Present Continuous Present Perfect Future How

Passive of Present Continuous Present Perfect Future

How do we change active to passive? • Subject + verb + object + compliment + time phrase • Object + verb + compliment + time phrase. (by subject) – if necessary

Present Continuous • What is the function of the present continuous? • How do we form the present continuous?

Look and Learn • We are now going to change the present continuous into passive voice. • Active: Many teachers are creating blogs to help them with their classes. • Passive: Blogs are being created by many teachers to help them with their classes.

Now you try! • Scientists are developing new software to help make education more interesting. (careful: 1. do you need the by phrase? 2. make sure you have subject verb agreement)

Present Perfect • What is the function of the present perfect? • How do we form the present perfect?

Look and Learn • We are now going to change the present perfect into passive voice. • Active: Many celebrities have created blogs for publicity purposes. • Passive: Blogs have been created for publicity purposes by many celebrities

Now you try! • The maths teacher has posted our homework on the school website. Careful: a. Where do you put the adjective ‘maths’?

Future • What is the function of the future? • How do we form the future? (there are two ways)

Look and Learn • We are now going to change the future into passive voice. 1. • Active: All parents will buy laptops for their children when they start primary school. • Passive: Laptops will be bought for children when they start primary school.

Look and Learn • We are now going to change the future into passive voice. 2. • Active: University professors are going to teach their classes over the internet. • Passive: University classes are going to be taught over the internet.

Now you try! • Engineers will equip all cars with a GPS system. • People are going to do all their shopping on the internet. Careful: a Do you need to use ‘their’?