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- a Look again at the Q&A article. Underline other
examples of the passive.

b Work in pairs. Compare answers.
B 30 Listen and practise. Copy the

stress and weak forms.

Tsunamis are / di cau sed by earthquakes under the ocean.

a Read about Roy Sullivan. What happened to him?
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The Earth hits/is hit by lightning 8.6 million times a day.
Scientists say there's a 1 in 3 million chance you
2 will hit/will be hit by lightning, but that depends on how
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much time you are spent/spend outdoors. Roy Sullivan,
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a park ranger from Virginia, USA, hit/was hit by lightning
seven times in his lifetime. On different occasions he
5 /ostlwas lost his toenails, hair and eyebrows. The final
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lightning strike happened/was happened while he was
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fishing and he took/was taken to hospital with chest and
stomach burns.
• HELP WITH GRAMMAR The passive b Read the text again. Choose the correct verb forms.

a Look at these sentences. Then answer questions 1-4. .
• a Look at the photo. Which city is it? What problems
• Earthquakes under the ocean cause
• ACTIVE does this city have?
• tsunamis .
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• Tsunamis are caused by earthquakes
• PASSIVE
• under the ocean .
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• 1 What is the subject of each sentence? www.english0905.com
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• 2 What is the object of the active sentence?
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• 3 In which sentence is the focus on: tsunamis?
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• earthquakes under the ocean?
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• 4 In which sentence do we use by to say what does the
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• action (the agent)?
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• b Look at this sentence. Then choose the correct
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• phrase in the rule .
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Droughts often happen because all the trees have been
cut down.
b Put the verbs in the correct form of the passive.
• We often use the passive when we know/we don't know There is sometimes more than one possible answer.
who or what did the action.
These days parts of Venice 1 (flood)
c Look at the passive forms in bold in the article. one day in three. People believe the water will rise another
Write them in the table. 20 cm in the next 50 years. This means that Venice
2 (flood) much more often.
verb form be past participle A lot of money 3 (already collect)
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• Present Simple are caused for the Save Venice Fund and now many old buildings
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• (repair). However, more money
• Present Continuous 5
• must __ (find) quickly and some people
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• Present Perfect Simple don't think the city can (save). Most
• experts agree that if important work 7
• Past Simple
• (not do) soon, some of the world's most beautiful buildings
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• be going to s (lose) forever .
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• will
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• can
• Get ready ... Get it right!
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• d How do we make negatives in the passive?
• Work in groups. Group A p106. Group B p111 .
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• e Check in ld;fi&WJ;l:I• p146 .
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