Passives — What, How, When

FIND A VERY GOOD SUMMARY AND EXCERCISES ON THIS PAGE

Using Passive to avoid responsibility

You can check your understanding HERE

Office gossip

•  Why does Nick want to talk with his boss? What did he say about Kirsten? What is she always doing? What does Nick think about the relation? What did Nick about the rest of the people? How do they react? How did Nick say he felt?
  What did his boss answer?

• Does this also happen in your workplace?
• How common is it?

Present Perfect

An interesting video about tenses:




There are some exercises for you to practise here:

exercise 1

exercise 2

exercise 3

exercise 4

On the following page you will find a complete explanation, examples and exercises. Enjoy it!

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simpas-preper 

GERUNDS VS INFINITIVES

In the following site, you'll find a quite complete list with verbs followed by gerund or infitive as well as a test:

http://www.engvid.com/english-resource/verbs-followed-by-gerunds-and-infinitives/

Conditional sentences

Interesting pages to practice this topic:


http://www.englishpage.com/conditional/conditionalintro.html

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/conditional-sentences

Action and state verbs

In the following pages you will find some information and exercises about this topic:

• http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/stative-verbs-exercise.html
• http://www.eclecticenglish.com/grammar/PresentContinuous1H.html

Reported speech again?!

YES! Just a little more practise:

Reporting verbs:

• http://valenciaenglish.netfirms.com/reporting.htm

Reported speech:

• http://a4esl.org/q/h/9901/tm-reported1.html
• http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/reported.htm

Indirect questions:

• http://esl.about.com/od/gramma1/a/indirectques.htm

Gerunds and Infinitives

Here are some pages for you to practise the topic above:

http://www.eflnet.com/grammar/gerinf1.php

http://www.eflnet.com/grammar/gerinf2.php

http://www.eflnet.com/grammar/gerinf3.php

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/gerund.htm

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/gerinf.htm

QUESTION TAGS

Do you need more practise on question tags? Try these activities!

• http://www.english-zone.com/grammar/tags01.html
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• http://a4esl.org/q/h/mc-bd-tagq.html
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• http://www.autoenglish.org/gr.qutags.i.htm
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• http://a4esl.org/q/h/fb006-bp.html

SENTENCE STRUCTURE - ADJECTIVES

One-minute video on sentence structure. Why learn about sentence structure? Watch a video, click HERE

 

Make a sentence game.  Can you make the sentence? HERE

 

Spot the sentence game. Can you spot the sentence?  HERE

 

Order of Adjectives in English 

 Ajective order quizz. HERE

What would you do if . . .?

Watch this video and say what these people would do if the won one millio dollars.

It's your turn now to answer the question!!!

Here's some extra practice for you:

• http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/englishfile/preint/a_grammar/file06/grammar06_a01/
• http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/englishfile/preint/a_grammar/file06/grammar06_a02/

CONDITIONAL SENTENCES

The first conditional (also called conditional type 1) is a structure used for talking about possibilities in the present or in the future.
This page will explain how the first conditional is formed, and when to use it. You will also find some exercises

• http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/StudyZone/330/grammar/1cond.htm

The second conditional (also called conditional type 2) is a structure used for talking about unreal situations in the present or in the future. This page will explain how the second conditional is formed, and when to use it.

• http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/2cond.htm

The third conditional (also called conditional type 3) is a structure used for talking about unreal situations in the past. This page will explain how the third conditional is formed, and when to use it.

• http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/3cond.htm

EXERCISES:

Second Conditional: http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/2cond2.htm

Third Conditional: http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/3cond1.htm

• http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/allcnd1.htm

Passive voice

You will find here a lot of extra practice. It's all yours!!

http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/result/engpreint/a_grammar/unit08/8b_2/

http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/result/engpreint/a_grammar/unit11/11d_1/

http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/result/engpreint/a_grammar/unit11/11d_2/

http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/result/engpreint/a_grammar/unit08/8b_1/


Are these sentences in active or passive voice?

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/active_passive/active_or_passive.htm

Turn sentences into passive voice:

http://www.english-4u.de/passive_ex1.htm

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/active_passive/sentences_simple_past.htm

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/active_passive/sentences_simple_present.htm

Tenses

You've been studying tenses for a long time.

Here is a wonderful table where you will find all the necessary explanations on how to use tenses.

After reading it carefully, you can try the following test to see if you understood it.


How about sharing your results and experiences?

Indirect or polite questions

Go to the following link in the British Council page and try to change ten direct questions into indirect questions.

http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/CET/flashactivities/learnenglish-central-grammar-indirect-questions.html

Comment on the results!

Reported speech

Something nice and simple about reported speech:

Reported questions:
http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/gr_movie/s_rep_que/index.htm

http://www.quia.com/quiz/1061590.html?AP_rand=854594258

Reported statements:
http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/gr_movie/s_rep_st/index.htm

Reporting verbs:
http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/gr_movie/s_rep_v/index.htm

Click on "reference" for some explanation.

Office gossip

 Watch the following video and try to answer the following questions using reported speech:

• Why does Nick want to talk with his boss? 
• What did he say about Kirsten? 
• What is she always doing? 
• What does Nick think about the relation? 
• What did Nick about the rest of the people? 
• How do they react? 
• How did Nick say he felt?
• What did his boss answer?

• Does this also happen in your workplace?
• How common is it?