| UNIT 4 | __ Passive voice (revision) |
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Download and print the materials for unit 4.
Choose one of these university access exams:
Zika virus raises alarms
Good-bye to Andrés Iniesta
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Practise with it next day in class.
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Practise with the other text at home.
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Correct both exams with your teacher's help.
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Refresh your memory with the passive voice tutorials
from year 10 in our bilingual programme (the passive I, II and III).
Remember there were some more advanced classnotes about the passive voice, too (the passive IV, V and VI). -
Do these passive voice exercises orally.
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Watch_
this 12-minute videoclip about
four reasons to use the passive voice
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Use the MOUSE program to check how well you remember how the passive voice works
doing some of these exercises:
- 6PASSIV1.TUT (passive voice exercise, 25 questions)
- 6PASSIV2.TUT (16 questions)
- 6PASSIV3.TUT (15 questions)
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Do this exercise based on authentic use of the passive voice in the prologue of a book called
The Journey of Man. 
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Do this 20-question exercise now with your teacher's help.
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Do the passive voice exercises in the worksheet which you downloaded and printed,
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Revise the passive voice tutorials more slowly at home
if you need to consolidate your previous knowledge. If you need more basic help, you can revise these videotutorials: - Passive I — Od as subject
- Passive II — Oi as subject
- Passive III — have something done — I will have this worksheet photocopied tomorrow.
- Passive IV — passive voice in reported speech — They were told to photocopy this.
- Passive V — passive voice with Vto+inf — They were expected to photocopy this.
- Passive VI — passive voice with special verbs (suppose, need) — They're supposed to photocopy this.
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Revise the passive voice.
If you did not get good marks in the previous test, or if you think you need to do some more work, you can use this passive voice extra practice worksheet which includes an answer key and more links for further practice. -
Voluntary homework: find a videoclip to help you remember how passive voice works.
Warning: it is impossible to find a short videoclip which explains all about the passive voice clearly. Try to find instead one that concentrates on specific points, or a longer one where you can point out an interesting sequence which can be useful for your classmates instead of watching the whole videoclip. If you manage to find one that you like, post the link in our virtual classroom, together with a short description or your opinion about how useful it is. -
Voluntary homework: watch one of your classmates' videoclips
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Homework: read about
how to pronounce
/D/ and /T/
in the classnotes about Spanish and English sounds.
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Basic classnotes about
/D/ and /T/.
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More advanced tips
about /T/ and /D/.
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Identifying /D/ and
/T/ sounds.
- Make a list of all the words that contain the letters TH in the text that your teacher will show you.
- First, classify them in two lists: those which are pronounced
/D/ and those which are pronounced
/T/ . - There are not any words that can be confused if you mispronounce these two sounds, but it is more difficult to understand someone who does not pronounce these sounds correctly, for example people who speak English with a heavy French accent, who will often pronounce a /z/ sound instead.
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Do the phonetics exercise
from your printed class notes (page 9).
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Correct the previous exercise.
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Do these phonetics exercises orally.
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Vocabulary-related rephrasing exercises.
Use the MOUSE program to read the classnotes about:
- SO / SUCH (06TRANS3.TUT § 14)
- TOO / ENOUGH (06TRANS3.TUT § 15)
- FIRST / LAST (06TRANS3.TUT § 17)
- SO / SUCH (06TRANS3.TUT § 14)
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Vocabulary-related rephrasing exercises.
Use the MOUSE program to read the classnotes about:
- USED TO + Vinf (06TRANS4.TUT § 19)
- BE USED TO V-ing (06TRANS4.TUT § 20)
- WOULD RATHER (or would sooner) and HAD BETTER (06TRANS4.TUT § 21)
- USED TO + Vinf (06TRANS4.TUT § 19)
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Practise sentence transformations.
Use the MOUSE program to do the exercises in 06TRANS3.TUT and 06TRANS4.TUT. -
Listening - summer plans
Your teacher will assign you a listening task at TopWorksheets. -
Read these notes about the passive voice.
The passive voice is often used to talk about science and in newspapers, where what happens is often more important than who makes it happen. It is also often used when the subject is very long, or we want to add a lot of information after it, and the rest of the sentence is comparatively short. Of course, we can use a relative clause, but that is not always the best solution; compare these two versions of the same sentence (by one of your classmates):
- I am talking about a cream which the scientist Falkenham, (who is) a student at Dalhousie University (Canada), has invented.
- I am talking about a cream which has been invented by the scientist Falkenham, a student at Dalhousie University (Canada).
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Let's do some research!
- Investigate about a scientific discovery or a recent invention, an innovative science project, or a new technique or material that might be used in future inventions. Make some notes to write a composition at school.
- Follow your teacher's instructions to write a newspaper article about your findings.
- Try to use the passive voice.
- When you finish your article, leave it on the teacher's desk, and read an article by another classmate.
- Try to find and correct mistakes.
- If you do not understand something, ask the student who wrote it what they meant.
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Learning vocabulary.
a) Choose a topic related to one of these issues which is interesting for you.
b) Read some text about it on the Internet.
c) Choose a list of 10 words that are directly related to that topic.
d) Put a dictionary in your school bag and bring it to school next day.
Here are some topics related to economy:
- Sustainability
- Circular economy (non-linear systems)
- Cradle to cradle design (zero waste)
- Green economy
- The Blue Economy
- Biomimetics or biomimicry
- Renewable energies
- Fair trade
- Economic crisis
- Unemployment
- Labour rights
- Globalisation
- Online shopping
- Consumerism
- Retirement
- Sustainability
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Make a vocabulary exercise
Write an example sentence with each word you chose. You can also write a short text if you prefer.
Highlight the new words in CAPITALS or using a different colour, or write up a separate list.
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E-mail your examples to your teacher AFTER they have been revised and corrected in class.
He will turn your examples into a list of HotPotatoes exercises.
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Do a classmates' exercise.
Choose one or more exercises about other topics that interest you from your classmates' vocabulary exercises and do it for homework.
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Voluntary homework: write a review.
You can send your teacher a message about one of the exercises you did. You can also do more of your classmates' exercises. -
Identifying phonemes.
Revise the pronunciation of common and tricky words with phonetics worksheet 1.
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Extra practice.
Download phonetics worksheet 2, which includes the answer key, if you want to do some extra practice. -
How to write a letter of application
Read through this page about how to write a letter of application at www.wikihow.com.
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Read a sample letter of application
from the same site.
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Do these exercises about the key points that a letter of application should include:
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Revise how to write
a letter of application at www.wikihow.com
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Write a letter of application.
- Choose a big company, a hospital, a private school, or any other place where you think you would like to work; then write a letter of application to the hiring manager of the workplace where you want to get a job.
- When you finish your letter, leave it on the teacher's desk, and read a letter by another classmate.
- Try to find and correct some mistakes.
- If you do not understand something, ask the student who wrote it what they meant.
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Listen and guess.
You are going to listen to the sound track of a videoclip. Read these questions:
- How many different scenes could you count?
- Where is the protagonist in each scene?
- What is happening in each scene?
- What is the film about?
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Get in groups of 3-4 students and discuss your ideas.
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Listen again (with pauses). Take turns to discuss your ideas with the whole class.
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Now watch the film (with pauses).
Take turns to describe what is happening in each scene.
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In pairs, discuss these questions.
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Do a listening about Steve Jobs in TopWorksheets.
| Exam practice |
| Grammar work |
| Phonetics |
| Vocabulary work |
| Listening |
| Writing |
| Vocabulary work 2 |
| Phonetics 2 |
| Reading |
| Writing 2 |
| Speaking |
| Listening 2 |