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Passive Voice Ⅰ Grammar and Vocabulary Ⅱ November 25, 2011.

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1 Passive Voice Ⅰ Grammar and Vocabulary Ⅱ November 25, 2011

2 Languages of the World How many languages are there in the world? Can you guess?

3 Ethnologue: Languages of the World (http://www.ethnologue.com/web.asp)http://www.ethnologue.com/web.asp By how many people is Chinese spoken?

4 Summary by Language Size 1. Chinese (1,213) 2. Spanish (329) 3. English (328) 4. Arabic (221) 5. Hindi (182) 6. Bengali (181) 7. Portuguese (178) 8. Russian (144) 9. Japanese (122) 10. German (90) : (単位は百万)

5 Active In an active clause or active sentence, the grammatical subject is the person or thing that performs the action given in the verb (e.g. Geoff wrote the book). Passive In a passive clause or passive statement, the grammatical subject is the person or thing that experiences the effect of the action given in the verb (e.g. The book was written by Geoff).

6 Exercise 2 (pp.64-65) (1) This church was (build/built/to build) about 400 years ago. ⇒ built (2) Many passengers were (injure/injured/injuring) in the accident. ⇒ injured (3) The auditorium was (crowd/crowded/crowding) with many students. ⇒ crowded

7 (4) The Statue of Liberty was given (with/from/to) America by France. ⇒ to (5) The glass was filled (by/of/with) water. ⇒ with (6) He was satisfied (by/of/with) the result of the exam. ⇒ with

8 (7) My aunt's purse was (steal/stole/stolen) at a supermarket. ⇒ stolen (8) You must always keep your room (lock/locked/to lock). ⇒ locked

9 BY WHOM Write a sentence about each picture. For example: 1. 'Yesterday' was sung by the Beatles.

10 2. The safety razor was invented by King Camp Gillette. 3. St. Paul's Cathedral was designed by Sir Christopher Wren. 4. Penicillin was discovered by Alexander Fleming. 5. 'A Farewell to Arms' was written by Ernest Hemingway. 6. 'Porgy and Bess' was composed by George Gershwin. 7. 'Psycho' was made by Alfred Hitchcock.

11 This is a Very Good Photograph of You A: This is a very good photograph of you. B: I think so, too. A: Who took it? B: I'm not sure. I think it was taken by my Uncle George.

12 A: This is a sad poem. B: I think so, too. A: Who wrote it? B: I'm not sure. I think it was written by Shakespeare.

13 Crossword: Languages http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/lear ningenglish/quizzes/crossword/09102 3_crossword_languages.shtml

14 ① The language spoken in Japan ② The language spoken in Brazil ③ The language spoken in France ④...... Rhyming Slang is a special kind of informal language first used by people in the East End of London ⑤ The language of the Netherlands

15 ⑥ The country where Danish is spoken ⑦ The language spoken in Ukraine ⑧ …… speaker of English: someone whose first language, or mother tongue, is English ⑨ The country where Welsh is spoken ⑩ The language that the word yoghurt comes from

16 The Clues 1.Japanese6. Denmark 2. Portuguese7. Ukrainian 3. French8. native 4. cockney9. Wales 5. Dutch10. Turkish

17 Take care of yourself!


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