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S Read the facts. Which do you think is the most surprising? & Complete the sentences in the chart. Use the present or
past simple passive form of the verbs in brackets. Then
match four of the sentences with pictures a-d.

50 yeare ago Today
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Manuscripts (write) Manuscripts')- (type)
by nd.or on,i typq1,1r.!ter,.. on a computer.
The finished manuscript The finished manuscript
3- (send) to the 4- (email) to the
publisher by post. publisher.
pl.iurasrt {aia*}os Most pictures 6-

paper. (create) on a computer.
Metaipjatesili-i .(make) Some books 8- (print)
by,t!1,ptfnt911 ,, ,, ,.., '. :,, directly from a computer.
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Bookse-i-f .,(seitlonty.!n,. More books (buy)
bookshops. online than from bookshops.

Didyouknow... ?
More than 3z million books are kept in the Library
of Congress in Washington, DC.
Every book that is published in the UK is sent to
the British Library free of charge.
57 books are bought every second by shoppers in
the USA.
Before r45o, books weren't printed they were $ {}:3.31 Listen and check.
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copied by hand.
The first Harry Potter manuscript was offered to Complete the questions. Use the correct passive form of the
verbs in brackets.
twelve publishers - and they all said no!
3 \rlas the Duke of Edinburgh Award schemg a'tartrd [y
The novel Gadsby: Champion of Youthwas the Queen's husband? (start)
written in 1939 by Ernest Vincent Wright without b teenage surfer Bethany Hamilton by a
using the letter'e'. shark? (attack)
A copy of Alice's Aduentures in Wonderlend was c fox-hunting in the UK in 2004? (ban)
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sold for $r.5 million in New York. d FarmVitte by 82 mittion people around the
wortd? (ptay)
e first Pirates of the Caribbean film in
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X Find three examples of the passive in btue in the text. 2010? (make)
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Complete the rules in the Learn thisl box. f -the Facebook- by more than 60% of people in
the uK? (use)
1 The passive is formed with the correct form of the verb C - April Foot's Day in France? (celebrate)
and the past participte. h the Earth by an enormous asteroid about
We use the simple for the present passive and 65 mittion years ago? (hit)
the simple for the past passive. i Engtand by King John during the fifteenth
lf we want to say who performed the action, we use by. century? (rute)
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ffi Work in pairs. Ask and answer the questions in
S Underline five more examples of the passive in exercise 1. exercise 6. You can find the answers in these lessonsl
Are they present simple passive or past simpte passive?
a 1C c3C e4B S 7Ei9C
b2E d 3E f 6c h 8E
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