How To Teach The
Passive Voice
AND
HOW TO
CHANGE
ACTIVE
VOICE TO
PASSIVE
VOICE
Step by Step
 Step 1: Demonstrate The Active Voice
 Step 2: Explain The Passive Voice
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Structure
Step 3: Review ‘To Be’ And The Past
Participle
Step 4: Swap The Subject And Object
Of An Active Voice Sentence
Step 5: Change The Verb Into The Past
Participle
Step 6: Add ‘to be’ and ‘by’
Step 7: Check The Structure
Step 8: Have Students Create Their
Own Sentences
Active methods
Roleplay;
What child hasn’t done something wrong and blamed a brother or sister
for the damage? This can be made more realistic for the students by setting
them up in small groups to role play as a family. You might also have them
act out their favorite example in front of the class at the end of the activity.
Have two students in each group play the siblings, and one or two as
parents who pass judgment. Have them swap roles regularly. Give the
parents prompt questions such as “How was the window broken?” Have
the siblings blame each other using passive voice such as “The window was
broken by a stone thrown by Kay” > “No, it was a ball kicked by Joe”. A
nice variation is to have the two siblings create reasons which blame a
third party: “No, it was broken by a big bird”. The question doesn’t have to
be in a passive voice, but you should encourage maximum use of the
passive in the excuses. For example “How did the cake end up on the
floor?” “It was knocked off the table when Kay walked past”.
WATCH the cartoon clips
And change from the active into passive voice
For example : (
Active V)The cat was
chasing the mouse.
(Passive V) The
mouse__________
( Active V)The goose
fed the panda. .
(Passive V) The
panda_________