Unit 12 - Passive

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Unit 12 - Planet Earth
grammar
The passive
Grammar in use
Look at the cartoon.
What do you think the text will be about?
Can you identify any of these things on these pages?

Rubbish debris space satellite spacecraft

Orbit rocket
2. Answer these questions
1. What is it about?
2. How has the situation been created?
3. Why is the situation dangerous?
4. What will happen in the future?
Answers:
1. Rubbish/ debris in space.
2. By satellites and parts of satellites/ rockets being left
behind or dropped in space.
3. Because spacecraft have been damaged and an
astronaut could be hurt.
4. A satellite will be destroyed by a piece of rubbish and
create much more debris.
3. What do you think should be done about the situation
in the text?
How can you stop people leaving things in space?
Who should be responsible for cleaning up?
How can the things be recovered?
How can we stop the situation getting worse?
Rule
Complete these sentences from the text.
Answers:
was launched
have been sent
are put
is being polluted
5. would be killed
6. Will be destroyed
Rules:
S + V + O.

S + be + V(PII) + by + …
Example: The present simple tense.
S + V + O. → S (o) + is/ are/ am + VPII+ O (s)
Eg: Ann writes a letter.
A letter is written by Ann.
Look at sentences:
He repairs his car.
→ His car is repaired by him
Rules:
1. The present simple tense.
S + V + O. → S (o) + is/ are/ am + VPII+ O (s)
2. The present continuous tense
S + is/ am/ are
V + O. → S (o) + is/ are/ am + VPII+ O (s)
Practice
1. Put the verbs in brackets into the present simple passive
is built
is tested
is taken
is prepared
are launched
are dumped
is put
are fired
is moved
is left
Answers:
Practice
2. Look at this text about Skylab. Listen (12.1), and check
Answers:
Was launched
were sent
Was abandoned
Was destroyed
Was scattered
Was hit
Was hurt
Were found
Were sold
3. Change these sentences from the active into the passive,
keeping the same tense.
A camere was dropped by the American astronaut, Michael Collin.
Eventually an astronaut will be hit by a piece of debris.
The astronaut would not be protected by a normal spacesuit.
Communications satellites are being damaged by rubbish.
More rubbish will be created by today’s satellites.
One of the space shuttle’s window was cracked by a piece of debris.
Some satellites have been brought back to Earth by the space…
186 marks were found by scientists on one satellite.
166 of te marks were caused by sace debris.

4. Rubbish is a problem on Earth, too. Discuss these questions.
Homework:
Learn new words by heart
Do exercise 1 – 2 in Workbook.
Preparing: Vocabulary in unit.
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