Top 5 Passive Voice ESL Games and Activities | Resources for Passive Voice

Описание: If you’re looking for passive games to teach your ESL students, you’re certainly in the right place. In this video, I give you my top 5 ESL activities and games for teaching the passive voice to your class.

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Here are my top five ESL passive voice games and activities. First of all, what is the passive voice? You use the passive voice when the subject is the recipient of the action. What does that mean? Here are a few examples.

The first example is when the agent of the action is not clear: my dog was let out. It's not clear who let the dog out of my yard.

The second example is when the agent is not important. So if someone says, do you need a ride? You could say, I'm being picked up. It doesn't matter if it was my mom or my dad or my friend, whoever was picking me up.

The third example is when the agent is obvious. So for example I've been instructed to organize the Christmas party. If I'm at work, it was my boss that told me to organize the Christmas party.

Here are my top five games and activities for teaching the passive voice. The first one is to use concentration. Make up a bunch of nouns and then a bunch of verbs that would kind of fit together in a passive voice sentence and then put students into groups of say four people and they can place all these cards face down on their desk. Eight verbs, eight nouns. The first student takes one card and another card. If they match, they can make a sentence using the passive voice. If correct, they could keep those two cards and they get one point. If it's incorrect, they place it face down in the same spot because it's a memory game and the next student gets a chance to go. Continue on until all the cards are gone.

The second activity is fill in the blank. This is a very simple thing to do, just kind kind of make a worksheet, or you can find them online, probably in the textbook that you may be using and students can fill in the blanks with the correct nouns or the correct verbs.

The third idea is kind of a freer practice exercise. It's famous inventions, so talking about inventions really leads to using the passive voice because the focus is on the invention, not necessarily on the person who who made it. Put students into a small group, say two or three people and they can use their phones. They can research a famous invention and then come up with a little presentation to give to the class using the passive voice for most of their sentences.

The fourth activity is error correction.    • Error Correction TEFL Relay Race | ESL Cor...   I would write up a bunch of sentences, some of them are correct and some of them are incorrect in using the passive voice. And the ones that are correct students, I just leave them. The ones that are incorrect, they have to make the required changes.

The final passive voice activity is remember this. I'd have a PowerPoint or I'd even just have a simple tray if I have a small class and I'd have different objects. I'd have like a pencil, an eraser, a pen, maybe my cell phone, whatever and then I give students a minute or two to kind of study the tray. After that time, I tell students to close their eyes or I turn my back if I have a tray or if I have a PowerPoint I can just have a second PowerPoint with the changes. Then maybe my pencil is missing, so I've taken away the pencil from that original thing and students have to use the passive voice and tell me what was changed. They could say the pencil was removed.

Timestamp:
0:00 Intro
0:09 What is the passive voice?
1:00 Top 5 games and activities for
passive voice
1:05 Use concentration
1:47 Fill in the blank
2:15 Famous inventions
2:53 Error correction
3:09 Remember this
3:57 Outro

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