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2 CHECK. Write answers to the questions. Write complete sentences.

1. When do hurricane hunters collect information?
Hurricane hunters collect information when they fly through the

calm eye of the storm.

. What are three things that a dropsonde checks?

. What two important things about a hurricane do the pilots want to find out?

4. What do weather forecasters do with the hurricane hunters’ information?

DISCOVER. Complete the exercises to learn about the grammar in this lesson.

Read the sentences from the article in excercise 1. Underline the passive in each sentence.

1. Being caught in the middle of a storm was no problem for Gibson.
. The weather forecasters issue warnings about areas that they expect to be affected.

. That way, they can avoid getting caught in dangerous situations.

. They don’t mind being asked to track dangerous storms.

Look at the sentences in exercise A again. Then read the statements. Choose T for frue
or F for false.
1. You need to use a form of be in all passives.

2. Passives can be formed with both gerunds and infinitives.

3. The final verb form in passive phrases is always a past participle.