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Passive Voice in the Present Tense: Exercises and Questions, Apuntes de Idioma Inglés

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Week 5_Class 1
Unit 2: Passive Voice in the present
1) Read the text and answer the questions:
1) What have people started to do in social media?
Many people started using social media to continue their activism.
2) Why do female equality and women’s empowerment need immediate attention?
Because womens equality has long been a problem.
3) What do women and girls have used social media for lately?
Women and girls have taken the digital mantle to create movements and advocate an
array of messages demanding the equality.
4) What is networked feminism?
Its a way of making public the rights and voices of all women.
5) Why is the internet important for feminist cyberactivism?
Because feminist practices propagate their demands on the internet.
6) What is one problem women are facing because of their activism on social media and
why do you think that happens?
They are bullied because other people don’t have the same opinion.
2) Write the participle form of the following verbs:
Study Studied
Choose Chose
Move Moved
Use Used
Jump Jumped
Eat Eaten
Buy Bought
Drink Drunk
Take Taken
Sing Sung
Steal Stolen
Have Had
Break Broken
Becom e Become
Feel Felt
Fly Flown
Teach Taught
Understand
Understood
Write Written
Drive Driven
Ride Ridden
Create Created
Go Gone
Get Get
Find Found
Give Given
See Seen
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**Unit 2: Passive Voice in the present

  1. Read the text and answer the questions:**
  2. What have people started to do in social media? Many people started using social media to continue their activism.
  3. Why do female equality and women’s empowerment need immediate attention? Because women’s equality has long been a problem.
  4. What do women and girls have used social media for lately? Women and girls have taken the digital mantle to create movements and advocate an array of messages demanding the equality.
  5. What is networked feminism? It’s a way of making public the rights and voices of all women.
  6. Why is the internet important for feminist cyberactivism? Because feminist practices propagate their demands on the internet.
  7. What is one problem women are facing because of their activism on social media and why do you think that happens? They are bullied because other people don’t have the same opinion.
  8. Write the participle form of the following verbs:
  • Study Studied
  • Choose Chose
  • Move Moved
  • Use Used
  • Jump Jumped
  • Eat Eaten
  • Buy Bought
  • Drink Drunk
  • Take Taken
  • Sing Sung
  • Steal Stolen
    • Have Had
    • Break Broken
    • Becom e Become
    • Feel Felt
    • Fly Flown
    • Teach Taught
    • Understand Understood
    • Write Written
    • Drive Driven
    • Ride Ridden
    • Create Created
      • Go Gone
      • Get Get
      • Find Found
      • Give Given
      • See Seen

*3)Turn these sentences in active voice into the passive voice. Identify the objects first!

1. People cyberbully feminists through social media.

  1. Many people don’t share lots of information about feminist movements. Lots of information about feminist movements isn’t shared by many people.
  2. Experts advise people to fight for gender equality. People are advised to fight for gender equality by experts.
  3. Some people use different identities to cyberbully women. Different identities are used to cyberbully women.
  4. Many Facebook female users today increase their privacy settings to avoid cyberbullying. Privacy setting are increase by many female users.
  5. Feminist activists always check their social media accounts to be updated with the latest movements. Social media accounts are always check by feminist activist.
  6. Every day, female activists receive death threats from social media. Death threats from social media are receive by female activist.
  7. Social-networking sites collect a lot of information on feminist movements. A lot of information of feminist movements is collected by social-networking.

Unit 2: Passive Voice in the present

1. Listen to the recording and complete the exercise. a. New figures show that over half a million were at the Women's March. T / F b. There were record sales of tickets for the Women's March. T / F c. President Trump's inauguration saw bigger crowds than the Women's March. T / F d. Around five million people attended women's marches worldwide. T / F e. Marchers at the Women's March only focused on women's rights. T / F f. The Women's March was the day after Donald Trump became President. T / F g. Women's March organisers wanted to send a message to President Trump. T / F h. Women's March organizers said there is no peace without justice. T / F 2. Write the participle form of the following verbs: - Sleep Slept - Do Done - Plan Planned - Leave Left - Forget Forgotten - Believe Believed - Answer Answered - Change Changed - Decide Decided - Explain Explained - Organise Organised - Remember Remembered - Fight Fought - Catch Caught - Have/has Had - Know Knew - Send Sent - Build Built 3. Change these sentences into the passive voice. a. People find buried bodies of women every day. Buried bodies of women are found every day by people. b. Police officers do not process crime scenes well. Crime scenes are not processed well by police officers. c. The police always close unfinished cases. Unfinished cases are always closed by police. d. Mexican authorities do not solve those murders. Those murders are not solved by Mexican authorities. e. Mexican authorities do not investigate cases of feminicides. Cases of feminicides are not investigated by Mexican authorities. f. Aggressors find protection if they have the resources. Protection is found by aggressors if they have resources.

g. The country’s Supreme Court does nothing to avoid this. Nothing to avoid this is done by the country’s Supreme Court. h. Women from all over the world plan more marches to give visibility to this problem. More marches are planned to give visibility to this problem by women all over the word. i. Women raise awareness because of these marches. Awareness is raised because of these marches by women. j. When women protest, they promote gender equality. Gender equality is promoted by them. 4.Imagine this situation: You are journalists and your boss has asked you to write about different situations women face every day. You interviewed women at a march, and you have taken some notes so you can write an article later.

  • Write 5 things women face every day using passive voice.
  1. Women suffer harassment by mental damaged people.
  2. Women are not helped by government.
  3. Women are underpaid by recruiters.
  4. Women are cyberbullied by other users.
  5. Women are violented by relatives.

f. Men interrupt women when discussing important topics at work.

  1. Women are sometimes interrupted when discussing important topics at work.
  2. Are women sometimes interrupted when discussing important topics at work? g. People use period shaming against women.
  3. Period shaming are used against women by people
  4. Why is period shaming used against women? h. People can educate others on these issues.
  5. Others can be educated by people on these issues.
  6. How can others educated by people on these issues? 3) Imagine this: You are tv hosts. You have invited some women to your show. You want to interview some women on the problems they face every day. You want to write some questions you can ask them before your show.
  • Write 5 question in the passive voice.
  1. How is sexual harassment faced in the work?
  2. How are these issues assisted by you?
  3. Is your daily life affected by these issues?
  4. Are your problems supported by authorities?
  5. Why those attacks endured by women?

Unit 2: Questions in Passive Voice

  1. Turn these sentences into the passive voice first. Then, create a question (Yes/No or Wh-word question) in the passive for each one. In some schools, authorities allow students to wear what they want.
  2. Students are allowed to wear what they want.
  3. Are students allowed to wear what they want? Now, some schools modify the dress codes.
  4. Dress codes are modified by some schools.
  5. Are dress codes modified by some schools. Students express concerns regarding dress codes.
  6. Concerns regarding dress codes are expressed by students.
  7. Are concerns regarding dress codes by students? Schools create new rules every year.
  8. New rules are created every year by school.
  9. Are new rules created every year by school? Students confront authorities because of dress codes.
  10. Authorities are confronted because of dress codes by students.
  11. Why authorities are confronted by students? Some schools pressure students to wear what they want.
  12. Students are pressure to wear what some schools want.
  13. Who is pressure to wear what some schools want? Students want a change.
  14. Change is wanted by students.
  15. What is wanted by students?