Passive Voice Ⅰ

Grammar and Vocabulary Ⅱ

November 25, 2011

Languages of the World

How many languages are there in the world? Can you guess?

Ethnologue: Languages of the World (http://www.ethnologue.com/web.asp)

By how many people is Chinese spoken?

Summary by Language Size

1. Chinese (1,213)

2. Spanish (329)

3. English (328)

4. Arabic (221)

5. Hindi (182)

6. Bengali (181)

7. Portuguese (178)

8. Russian (144)

9. Japanese (122)

10. German (90)

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（単位は百万）

Active In an active clause or active sentence, the

grammatical subject is the person or thing that performs the action given in the verb (e.g. Geoff wrote the book).

Passive In a passive clause or passive statement,

the grammatical subject is the person or thing that experiences the effect of the action given in the verb (e.g. The book was written by Geoff).

Exercise 2 (pp.64-65)

(1) This church was (build/built/to build) about 400 years ago.

⇒ built(2) Many passengers were

(injure/injured/injuring) in the accident. ⇒ injured(3) The auditorium was

(crowd/crowded/crowding) with many students.

⇒ crowded

(4) The Statue of Liberty was given (with/from/to) America by France.

⇒ to

(5) The glass was filled (by/of/with) water.

⇒ with

(6) He was satisfied (by/of/with) the result of the exam.

⇒ with

(7) My aunt's purse was (steal/stole/stolen) at a supermarket.

⇒ stolen

(8) You must always keep your room (lock/locked/to lock).

⇒ locked

BY WHOM

Write a sentence about each picture.

For example:

1. 'Yesterday' was sung by the Beatles.

1. 'Yesterday' was sung by the Beatles.2. The safety razor was invented by King Camp

Gillette.3. St. Paul's Cathedral was designed by Sir

Christopher Wren.4. Penicillin was discovered by Alexander

Fleming.5. 'A Farewell to Arms' was written by Ernest

Hemingway.6. 'Porgy and Bess' was composed by George

Gershwin.7. 'Psycho' was made by Alfred Hitchcock.

This is a Very Good Photograph of You

A: This is a very good photograph of you.

B: I think so, too.

A: Who took it?

B: I'm not sure. I think it was taken by my Uncle George.

A: This is a sad poem.

B: I think so, too.

A: Who wrote it?

B: I'm not sure. I think it was written by Shakespeare.

Crossword: Languages

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/quizzes/crossword/091023_crossword_languages.shtml

① The language spoken in Japan ② The language spoken in Brazil ③ The language spoken in France ④ ...... Rhyming Slang is a special kind of informal language first used by people in the East End of London ⑤ The language of the Netherlands

⑥ The country where Danish is spoken

⑦ The language spoken in Ukraine

…… ⑧ speaker of English: someone whose first language, or mother tongue, is English

⑨ The country where Welsh is spoken

⑩ The language that the word yoghurt comes from

The Clues

1.Japanese 6. Denmark

2. Portuguese 7. Ukrainian

3. French 8. native

4. cockney 9. Wales

5. Dutch 10. Turkish

Take care of yourself!Take care of yourself!