THE PASSIVE

If you need some extra practise with this topic, check the following pages:

• Rewrite the following sentences in the text-areas provided so that passive constructions have been changed to active verbs: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/passive_quiz.htm

• Passive Voice

• Passive Voice 2

• Passive Voice 3

• Passive Voice 4

• Passive Voice 5
  

• Active or Passive?

Here's another way of looking into passive voice. Try to watch it and answer the questions, of course! :-))

MODAL VERBS

Here's a site where you can practise modal verbs:

http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/398.html

http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/528.html

In the following page, you'll find the different degress of uncertainty expressed by modals (explanation and practise)

http://www.grammar-quizzes.com/modal1.html

The Mist: Modal Verbs - Possibility, Speculation - MIGHT, COULD, CAN'T

A. Watch the movie segment.

B. In column 1, write YES if you believe it is a possible explanation for the mystery, and NO if you believe it is an impossible explanation.

In column 2, check the items that the characters in the movie believe are possible explanations for what is in the mist.

WHAT IS (IN) THE MIST?

MY OPINION / THE CHARACTERS’ OPINIONS


( ) ( ) A military operation
( ) ( ) A pollution cloud
( ) ( ) A terrorist attack
( ) ( ) Some kind of chemical explosion
( ) ( ) Death
( ) ( ) Just their imagination
( ) ( ) An earthquake
( ) ( ) Aliens
( ) ( ) The end of days
( ) ( ) A poisonous gas cloud
( ) ( ) A nuclear explosion
( ) ( ) A war simulation

C. Now write sentences with might, could or can’t to express possibility or impossibility, speculating about what is in the mist.

Might

1 ………………………………………………………………………………..
2 ……………………………………………………………………………….

Could

1 ………………………………………………………………………………..
2 ………………………………………………………………………………..

Can’t

1.…………………………………………………………………………………..
2 ………………………………………………………………………………....

D. What would you do if you were the woman who needed to go into the mist in order to rescue her eight year-old daughter?

The Village: Modal Verbs (Possibility: Might/ Must)

Watch the video segment and come up with 2 possible directions for the story. Write 2 sentences using might/must + verb to say what might happen to the characters in the movie.



Ex:

Part 1: a) He might see a stranger in the village.
b) He might get hurt.

Part 2: a) _____________________________________
b) _____________________________________

Part 3: a) _____________________________________
b) _____________________________________

Question tags

Do you need more practise on question tags? Try these activities!

http://www.english-zone.com/grammar/tags01.html

http://a4esl.org/q/h/mc-bd-tagq.html

http://www.autoenglish.org/gr.qutags.i.htm

http://a4esl.org/q/h/fb006-bp.html

POSSIBILITY AND PROBABILITY

Possibility and probability… » Quiz Question Maker

Sentence construction

Put a text into sentences. When you finish, tell us how well you did it:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/grammar/sentencebasics/whatisasentence/flash7.shtml