PASSIVES

 The Passive Voice

 

To revise the form and uses of the passive, please click here.

Passive Voice NI2 by andevas

To watch a video and practise, visit this old post, this one and this one.

HAVE SOMETHING DONE

These two videos explain quite clearly how this passive structure works:

 


Explanation ecenglish.com. and elblogdelingles.
Exercises: here, here, here , here.

THE PASSIVE

In the first place, you can watch this video, to revise what was explained in class and visit englisch-hilfen to revise everything and do some exercises.

If you want to practise this structure, you can visit this page.

Here you have a game, to make it more fun; choose the number of players and enjoy yourself while you learn

CLOTHES AND MUCH MORE

In file 4A we've seen how to describe clothes. If you want some further practice, you can gossip here to see who (according to the Mirror newspaper) were the best and wrost dressed actresses at the Oscars last Sunday. For difficult vocabulary, remember you now have a dictionary online in this page, just RIGHT-CLICK on it, so that you have it in a new tab and you don't leave the blog. For the actual list of winners, click here.

We've also practised passives, for further practice go here, or here. Theory and lots of practice here, here, here, and this link and this other one are on "to have something done".

Here's a song by Katy Perry which was sent to me by Sara for you to sing along and practise. Don't you love it?

In file 4B we'll discuss about men and women, but just to look at the fun side of it, you can watch this sketch explaining the differences between men's and women's brains. Hilarious!

part 2:

Did you like it? Any comments to make anybody? :-) 

Have something done

Remember that we use 'to have something done' when asking (or paying) people to do things for us. If you want to practise the structure, click here for the English File website and here for another website to listen to a podcast about it and play a game. The podcast also shows you synonyms of the structure. The game is like 'The Weakest Link'. See if you can answer get all 500 points in a category. Click on the option for one or two players to start.