Ex. 73 Choose the best form
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PASSIVE VOICE (CONSOLIDATION)
Ex. 72 EXTENSION ACTIVITY
1 How much do you know about history? Write five sentences about famous events in the past, using these verbs: discover, iïveït, paiït, write, build.
2 Write à list of five recent news events in your country. Describe what was done at à particular time.
Underline the ñîrråñt verb form
Exaòple: The gallery has over 1,000 paintings. These have bååï collected / have collected during the last 100 years.
1 Íå was à collector as well as àn artist. Íå collected / was collected nearly 1,000 paintings.
2 The first pocket calculator weighed almost à kilogram. Its inventor iïvited / was iïvited to trade fairs àll over the world.
3 Jonathan is starting à new job next week. Íå is goiïg to ðàó / is goiïg to bå paid much more
than before.
4 These beautiful clocks asseòble / are asseòbled bó hand.
5 Visitors are advising / are beiïg advised to stay away from the city centre at night.
á The fivå prisoners who escaped last week have caught / have bååï caught.
7 Welcome to the conference. After this meeting óîu`ll give / óîu`ll bå giveï à welcome pack with details of the talks and your accommodation.
8 I àm pleased to report that your visa application has båån successful and that your passport has bååï returïed / has returïed bó the Immigration Îffñå.
9 À young couple, whose parents were ïot allowed / didï't allow them to see each other because of àn argument between the two families, have married in secret.
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