1. The Passive Voice

2. We already know this, don’t we?

3. A link to check a little bit the structure of the passive voice. http://english-zone.com/verbs/pssvchrt.html

4. Examples People eat thousands of pizzas on Tuesdays. Someone stole my bag while I was swimming. Peter has written lots of songs. The teacher will bring the material.

5. They were Active Voice examples

6. Four different tenses were used in the examples

7. They were… Present simple Past simple Present perfect Future simple (will)

8. Now… Thousands of pizzas are eaten on Tuesdays. My bag was stolen while I was swimming. Lots of songs have been written by Peter. The material will be brought by the teacher.

9. Those were examples of what we know as passive voice sentences.

10. HOW TO FORM PASSIVE VOICE OBJECT + BE + PAST PARTICIPLE (MAIN VERB)

11. When do we use passive voice? 1.- When I don’t know who did/does/has done/will do the action. 2.- When it is not relevant to mention who did/does/has done/will do the action.

12. Let’s practise