Date: 06/02/2014 School: El Khwarizmi Technical High

School
Class Level: 2
st
Year Baccalaureate Class Size: 30
Class level: weak
Class Period: 17h00 to 18h00 Lesson: Passive voice and active voice
Textbook: Ticket 2 English Teacher:
Unit: 5
Lesson Type: Grammar

Objectives :
By the end of this lesson, students should be able to do the following:
Recognize passive voice structures
Differentiate between passive voice and active voice
Use passive voice in an authentic context
Timing Procedure Techniques
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30min




Warm up
Greeting students
Good evening everybody, I wish you had a nice day. You look very
tired today; have you been playing sport?
Ss: yes
T: by the way what sport do you play?
T asks ss to write the name of the sport which they play alongside their
names.
Ss : Ahmed plays football.
Ss: Reda plasys basketball.
Ss :Hanane plays handball.
T: thats interesting
Review
Tenses the verb to be in all tenses
Review of some regular and irregular verbs
T: writes
Base form Past Past participle
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Ss: write down the verbs they remember on the blackboard
T: supply some verbs that are going to be used during the lesson.
Presntation stage
T: asks students who plays what
Ss: repeat the above statements after the teacher.
T: asks the ss what is played and by who?
Ss: football
T: football is played by Ahmed
Ss: football is played by ahmed.
( a mechanical drill in which the students repeat the sentences after
the teacher, sentence by sentence.
T: football is played by Ahmed.


Draw a table on the
black board












Blackboard( draw a
table)








VA: the use of
flashcard showing
different activities
done by anonymous
people.

























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6min
Underline and highlight the verb to be
T: can you remember the past form of the verb to be?
Ss: state the passive forms of TO BE
Football is played by Ahmed.
Was played
Has been played
Have been
Had been played
Will be played
Will have been
Is being
T: use a set of flashcards- the teacher asks what is done?
Ss: trees are cut.
T: who does this?
Ss: someone
T: we dont know who exactly cut these trees.
T: use another flashcard to check ss understanding of the structure of
the passive voice, and the difference btw the passive and the active
voice.
T: shows a picture in which a persons hand appears to put a liquid in a
tube, but his identity ( face- name) is not shown. T asks what is
done?
Ss: a liquid is put in a tube.
Exploitation
Exercise 1
IDENTIFY THE PASSIVE TENSES IN A PASSAGE
Exercise2
(divide the class into 4 groups)
1-transform the sentences into passive voice. ( attached worksheets)
This exercise focuses mainly on simple present, present perfect and
present continuous so as to proceed step by step from an easy tasks to
a more complicated ones.
Correction
Exercise 3
Divide the class into four groups( attached worksheet)
Simple past, past perfect, and past continuous are introduced in this
exercise.
Students will plant trees to celebrate the World Environment Day.
Citizens must respect the law.
Drilling ss on the structure of the use of the modals in the passive form
Exercise 4
Passive structure in the future tense+ modal use in the passive
Exercise 5
Includes all forms covered earlier
Exercise 6
Transformation of sentences from passive into active.
Follow up
Exercise


















-Students work in
groups, each group is
assigned to answer 5
questions, and each
group deals with
different sentences.
-Handouts




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Pair work+handouts