SReyes-En621: 6.1. Passive voice

Task goal

Students will create a news capsule of their preferred topic by explaining a process to make their partners do something different in order to enjoy life and live better

Students will describe the process of an activity or a product they want to do, act or eat. Students will explain how it is made, what its origin is, how it is transformed, what are the steps, the materials and all the information that they consider relevant to know.

Expected product

Exercises 1 and 2.

Technological resources

Two articles on the web

Learning activity

Available resources

Group organization: individually

After dicussing the use of the passive voice in class, you are ready to work with the following activity.

Instructions:

Read two texts titled “Everything You Don’t Know About Chocolate” and “The sweet history of chocolate”.
Complete the Exercise 6.1.1. and Exercise 6.1.2. according to the text information. Use using passive voice in both times, the present and the past simple.

The New York Times. “Everything You Don’t Know About Chocolate”

History stories. “The sweet history of chocolate”