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At a Glance
Students will: ü work as a team to change sentences to passive voice
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Purpose: to recognize and reinforce correct use of passive voice Materials: sentences on attached pages, coloured paper, scissors
Preparation: 10 minutes to copy and cut up the sentences Time: 30 minutes |
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Teacher’s Notes |
Procedure Try this activity after having worked on using passive voice in other
assignments. 1. Copy the attached pages. 2. Fill in the blank spaces with the names of some of your students. 3. Copy on to coloured paper or cardstock and cut the sentences into strips. 4. Divide the class into teams. 5. This game is played in rounds. For each round, give every team one strip. 6. Students work together to change the active voice sentence to passive. 7. One member of the group races to the board and rewrites the sentence in the passive--if possible. (Almost all the sentences can be changed to passive; there are just a few that can't-- to throw a wrench into the activity.) 8. You check the sentences with the class and keep track of each team's points on the board. Scoring is as follows: · Grammatically perfect sentences are worth 5 points. · An incorrect passive voice sentence is worth 0 points. ·
Subtract one point for every other type of grammatical
mistake. |
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