MEETING 10

CLASSROOM
ACTIVITY
PAST TENSE PASSIVE VOICE
PRESENTATION

The steps of creating past tense passive voice in past tense are not different from its creation
in simple present passive voice. The difference is only in the suing of verb be. In past tense
passive voice, you use WAS and WERE as verb be.

Review the examples below:

Active : The singer sang some old songs last night.
Passive : Some old songs were sung by the singer last night.

Active : The teacher didn’t give homework last week.

Passive : Homework wasn’t given by the teacher last week.

Active : Did the mechanic repair your car two days ago?
Passive : Was your car repaired by the mechanic two days ago?

PRACTICE

task 1
Change the following sentences into passive voice.

1. The manager paid the employees’ salary a week ago.

2. We didn’t know the answers of the questions.
3. Did our teacher tell what we must do?
4. My father drank some coffee just now.
5. Some students didn’t do their homework.
6. Did our leaders give special instructions to deal with the virus?
7. Yono gave very low offer to buy my tablet.
8. I obviously didn’t accept Yono’s offer.
9. Did Yono know how much the price of a high class tablet?
10. Yono finally bought a goat.

task 2
Change the active sentence into passive or the passive into active. Pay attention
whether each tense is present or past tense.

1. The book was written by a young writer.

2. My friend ate many traditional foods when he was in Central Java.
3. The principal of the school checks the school rooms every week.
4. Do all students wash their hands three times in a day?
5. Old movies are not watched by my sister.
6. The disease killed many people all over the world in 2002.
7. Did the government announce to lock down the city last night?
8. Once a week I and my brother visit our hometown.
9. Yono is not interested to see old comedian movies.
10. We didn’t know where the meeting was taking place.
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 REVIEW &
ENRICHMENT

WARMING UP

Fill each gasps with one word. Use its definition to help you.
A young boy was playing with a (1) __________________ (an object, usually round in shape and of-
ten hollow and flexible, used in many games and sports in which it is thrown, struck, or kicked)
in the street. He (2) __________________ (strike with foot) it too hard, and it (3) __________________
(to become damaged and separate into pieces) the (4) __________________ (an opening in a wall
of a building, usually with an inner frame of wood or metal with glass fitted in it, to let in light
or, when opened, air) of a house and fell inside. A lady came to the window with the ball and
(5) __________________ (to say or utter something very loudly) at the young boy, so he ran away,
but he still wanted his ball back. A few minutes later he returned and (6) __________________ (to
strike loudly against something such as a door with the knuckles or an object in order to attract
attention) at the door of the house, and when the lady answered it, he said, "My father's going
to come and (7) __________________ (to repair, mend, or correct something) your window very (8)
__________________ (within or after a short time)."
After a few more minutes a man came to the door with (9) __________________ (devices for doing
work) in his hand, so the lady let the boy take his ball away.
When the man finished fixing the window, he said to the lady, "That will cost you (10)
__________________ (used to emphasize that a particular quality or quantity is stated precisely)
ten dollars."
"But aren't you the father of that young boy?" the woman asked, looking surprised. "No," he
answered, equally surprised. "Aren't you his mother?"

REVIEW
Change the following sentences into passive voice.
1. The minister canceled the meeting last week.
2. We didn’t drink coconut water when we were having holiday in Pangandaran last week.
3. Did the teacher explain the last material well?

READING COMPREHENSION

Before you read

- Do you like reading? Why?
- Do you have a favorite writer? Who?

task 1
Read the text and find out 10 incorrect words in it.

Rudyard Kipling, one of Britain's most fame writers, was born in Bom-
bay, India. in 1865, where. his English father was working for the Brit-
ain government. Kipling spent his early childhood in India. At six he was
taken to England and education in an English school. From 1882 until
1883 he was editing of his school paper. He went back to India in 1883.
There he became interesting in writing and worked for a newspaper.
When he was twenty-one he published his first book, which was a small
book of poet. Before he was twenty-four he had brought out a small
collect of short stories. These were well liked and were full of brilliance
descriptions and accurate observations.
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Between 1887 and 1899 Kipling traveled around the world. He visited China, Japan, and he
lived for a few years in America, where he married an American woman. During this period, he
wrote several of his most popularity works, the stories for children, which made him famous;
The Jungle Books (1894), Kim (1901) and Just So Stories (1902). He also published several
books of poetry during this time. Kipling returned to England from America and spent the rest
of his life there until his die in 1936.

task 2
Change the incorrect words into their correct ones.

task 3
Read again the text and answer the following questions with short answers.
1. What is the nationality of Rudyard Kipling?
2. Was his father work in Britain when Kipling was born?
3. In what year was Kipling taken to England?
4. How old was Kipling when he went back to India?
5. In what year did Kipling publish his first book?

task 4
Underline the past tense passive sentences in the text

SPEAKING & LISTENING

Ask the following questions to your friend and listen to his/her answer.
1. When were you born?
2. Where were you born?
3. In what year did you join elementary school?
4. What was/were your favorite lesson(s) when you were in elementary school?
5. In what year did you join junior high school?
6. What was/were your favorite lesson(s) when you were in junior high school?
7. In what year did you join senior high school?
8. What was/were your favorite lesson(s) when you were in senior high school?
9. Why were those lessons well-liked by you?

• Do you have the same lessons that you partner liked in elementary, junior and senior
high school?
• What are they?