Invisible Processes - Passive Voice 2.0

We recommend taking this lesson after B1: Rules Are Made to Follow – Passive Voice.

Short overview of the lesson:

• Watch a short video about smart homes and identify which devices are automated.
• Evaluate smart home devices by discussing their usefulness, cost, and privacy implications.
• Discuss how smart technology works using pictures of different smart home devices.
• Read a social media-style post and comments about automated systems in smart homes.
• Identify and underline passive verb phrases in the text.
• Analyse examples of passive voice and match them with the correct tenses.
• Study the structure and use of the passive voice (be + past participle) through guided discovery.
• Practise forming passive structures in different tenses through controlled grammar exercises.
• Complete a quiz about smart home technology using passive forms in context.
• Match actions to pictures and complete sentences using the correct passive forms.
• Practise using the passive voice in speaking through problem-solving and discussion tasks about smart buildings.
• Consolidate the grammar through additional practice, including sentence rewriting and error correction tasks.