TT Unit 8. Passive voice and vocabulary

Match the words to their definitions:

• cyclone

• The quality of being polite, or a willingness to be fair and honest

• encyclopaedia

• A round flat object forms a

• bicycle

• A tropical storm

• circle

• A two-wheeled vehicle

• grace

• A book with useful information about many topics

Match the words to their definitions:

• scarce

• When two or more things happen unexpectedly at the same time

• coincidence

• Not easy to find or get, limited

• resource

• Another word for 'supply'

• pierced

• The ozone layer is

• stand

• Take a ___ - express and defend your opinion

Passive sentence: Natural forest fires are usually started by lightning.

Active sentence:

• Lightning

• usually

• starts

• natural

• forest fires.

Passive sentence: The Earth’s crust is made up of large lumps called plates.

Active sentence:

• Large lumps

• called

• plates

• make up

• the Earth's crust.

Passive sentence: Volcanic eruptions are sometimes caused by two plates crashing together.

Active sentence:

• Two plates

• crashing together

• sometimes

• cause

• volcanic eruptions.

Active sentence: Earthquakes cause a lot of damage.

Passive sentence:

• A lot of

• damage

• is

• caused

• by earthquakes.

Active sentence: The 2004 earthquake that occurred in the Indian Ocean near Sumatra, Indonesia,

triggered a series of tsunamis.

Passive sentence: A series of tsunamis _____(trigger) by the 2004 earthquake that occured in the Indian Ocean near Sumatra, Indonesia

• are triggered

• were triggered

• triggered

• is triggered

Active sentence: The great Mississippi River Flood of 1993 damaged more than 50,000

homes.

Passive sentence: More than 50,000 homes ____ (damage) by the great Mississippi River Flood of 1993.

• damaged

• are damaged

• were damaged

• damage

Passive sentence: Great damage was done by a natural disaster called Chelsea.

Active sentence: A natural disaster called Chelsea _____(do) a lot of damage.

• does

• was done

• is

• did

Passive sentence: The desert was painted in shades of red and gold by the rising sun.

Active sentence: The rising sun _____ the desert in shades of red and gold.

• paints

• painted

• is painted

• painting