1 Completa le frasi con i verbi nel riquadro e il Present simple passive.
eat grow organise make produce visit
è The Olympic Games _are organised_ every four years.
1 Italy ______________________ by more than 40 million tourists every year.
2 Oranges ______________________ in Spain.
3 Ferraris ______________________ near Bologna.
4 Italian food ______________________ all over the world.
5 Pasta ______________________ with eggs and flour.
2 Cerchia l’alternativa corretta.
è ‘Casino Royale’ filmed/was filmed in Italy. It stars/is starred Daniel Craig.
1 This chocolate produces/is produced in Belgium. I eat/am eaten a piece every
day.
2 Our dogs keep/are kept in the garden, because my mother doesn’t want/isn’t
wanted them in the house.
3 Luke copied/was copied Matt’s test but he saw/was seen by the teacher.
4 We moved/were moved to this house last year. It built/was built in the 18th
century.
5 My bag made/was made in India. My aunt gave/was given it to me for my
birthday.
3 Completa le frasi con i verbi tra parentesi e il Past simple passive.
è My sister _was bitten_ (bite) by a spider.
1 ‘___________ Great Expectations ___________ (write) by Charles Dickens?’ ‘Yes, it
was’.
2 My brother ______________________ (not/invite) to Sally’s party.
3 That picture ______________________ (paint) by my dad.
4 Three goals ______________________ (score) in the final ten minutes of the game.
5 These beautiful diamonds ______________________ (mine) in South Africa.
4
Riscrivi le frasi alla forma passiva.
1
They check all the questions in the test.
2
They pick the oranges in the winter.
3
They sell millions of chocolate bars every week.
4
They froze the pizzas before they left the factory.
5
They didn’t pay us much for this work.
6
Charles Dickens wrote Oliver Twist.
5
Scrivi domande con il Present simple o Past simple passivo. Poi dai
risposte brevi affermative (
6
) o negative (
).
1
these shoes / make / in Italy?
2
foreign languages / study / in British schools?
3
that picture / paint / by van Gogh?
4
these photos / take / by your parents?
5
this iPad / import / from the USA?
6
tomatoes / grow / in Italy?
Completa il brano con la forma passiva dei verbi nel riquadro.
call
dry
grow
make
pick
separate
take
Chocolate comes from South and Central America. It
is made_______
from cocoa beans. The beans 1_____________ in tropical plantations and
2
_____________ from the trees by workers. Then they 3_____________
in the sun, for about seven days. The beans 4_____________ to factories
where the shells – the outside part of the beans – 5_____________ from
the inside part, which 6_____________ the ‘nib’. This is the best part of
the bean – the part that will soon be used to make a bar of chocolate.
7 Scegli l’alternativa corretta.
Last week Aunt Lucy 1______________ she 2______________ the night before by
strange noises in the kitchen. My mum 3______________ probably the cat but Aunt
Lucy said the cat 4______________ in the garage at night. My dad said he
5
______________ it was the water pipes. My aunt said that the water pipes
6
______________ three weeks before. Then she told us that 7______________ a
young girl lived in the house. One day the girl went out with 8______________ dog,
and they 9______________. My aunt says the noises 10______________ by the girl’s
ghost!
1 a said us
b told
c said
2 a is woken
b woke
3 a said it is
b said it was
4 a was kept
b was keeping
5 a thinks
b was thought
6 a were fixed
b was fixed
7 a many years before
8 a its
c was woken
b his
c keeps
c thought
c are fixed
b many years later
c the following year
c her
9 a were disappeared
10 a are made
c told it was
b are disappeared
b was made
c is made
c disappeared