Lesson Plans: Passive Voice

Passive voice in academic writing and discussions review, including verbs which are never or rarely passive.

Practising passive voice by making lies for other groups to spot

Passive voice lesson for engineers

Using passive to describe classroom objects guessing game, with passive speaking practice, passive voice grammar presentation, and useful vocabulary.

Describing international festivals and celebrations for passive voice practice

Guess the food from the passive voice hints game, with a grammar presentation and common foods to need to explain to other people.

Guessing game for passive and techical English practice, moving onto a grammar presentation and work on engineering collocations, synonyms, abbreviations, etc.

Students practise passive voice by discussing what a good product should do then trying to sell that idea to other groups, good for business and ESP students, including Technical English classes.

Fun and realistic oral practice of passive questions, with students choosing good real-life personal passive voice questions and trying to avoid passive questions which are too personal, strange, etc, with a passive grammar presentation.

A lying card game and coin game to practise "have something + PP" and "do something myself", including typical actions with have something done.

Six fun speaking dice games for the passive for have something + past participle, including guessing games, lying games and sharing personal information, and suggested common have something done sentences.

Household chores vocabulary and have something done/ get something done

Using passive voice to talk about the past, present and future review, starting with an ecology trivia quiz, with an optional extension where students make similar questions for each other.

Students explain difficult situations with the passive voice and give advice on their partner's problems, then try to remember irregular past participles and match time expressions to different passive tenses.

Students give and discuss their opinions using suggested passive voice sentences for talking about cause and effect, predictions, etc, then try to remember the past, present and future passive voice forms that they were just using.

Students try to use passive voice as much as they can as they repeat back what their partner said about the suggested topics, with suggested extensions and a link to the topic of job applications.

Passive voice and pronouncing numbers practice through a fun pairwork trivia quiz, followed by a presentation on different passive tenses and irregular past participles.

Closed questions with passive voice speaking games, for easy practice of different passive tenses, including points for getting positive answers and a fun lying game.

Air travel processes to practise Present Simple Passive and Past Simple Passive, with useful phrases for describing the steps in a process, so also useful for IELTS Academic Writing Task 1.