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By+agent ÿ serve customers: The oustovÿers are served by
her daughter.
With the passive, we sometimes use by to help the
1 design menus
person or object that does the action. We call this the
agent. 2 clean café

Active: Some people hate football, but others love It.
3 make cakes
Passive: Football is hated by ;ome people and loved
by others.
4 do washing-up
Remember, when we use the passive, it is not very
important who does the action. Even when we use by, 5 grow vegetables
the agent is not as important as the subject of the verb.
The Simpsons is a great programme. It is watched by 6 cook the food
millions of people.
We serve fresh bread in our café. All the bread is made
* table.
by our chef, Fred. 8 Write sentences using the words in the

7 O 29.3 Who does what? Molly's café isa family
bridges build architects
business. Look at the picture and write sentences
houses design chefs
using the passive with by. Then listen and check.
medicines make chemists
newspapers fly engineers
omelettes play journalists
pianos sell musicians
planes write pilots
brother daughter husband sister
Bridges are built by evuÿlvÿeers.

19 Play in groups of three. One student
*
chooses an object he or she can see and
describes it using the passive. Who can
guess the object first?

Theyfre ntade of glass auÿd plastic. They,re woriÿ
the face. They're used forseeuvÿore dearly.

They're glasses!

yes>.

Self-evaluation Rate your progress.

ÿ - *

C* If

Molly son

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