Question

write questions using the passive. Some are present and some are past.

1. Ask about the telephone. (when/invent?) - When was the telephone invented?

2. Ask about glass. (how/make?) - How ......................

3.Ask about Australia. (when/discover?) - ........................

4.Ask about silver. (what/use for?) - .............................

5. Aska about television. (when/invent?) - ........................

Rewrite the sentences using the past simple passive.

1. Someone in ancient Egypt made the first paper. -

The first paper was made in ancient Egypt.

2. Did shops give plastic bags to people fifty years ago? -

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3.In the past, people didn't make ships from metal. -

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4. nobody knows when people made the first glass. -

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5.someone developed silk-making in China. -

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6. Did someone build a simple computer in the nineenth century? -

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7. Nobody in Europe invented maths. -

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put the verb into the correct form, pressent simple or past simple, active or passive.

2. Water .........................(cover) most of the Earth's surface.

3. Most of the Earth's surface ................... (cover) by water.

4. The park gates ............ (lock) at 6.30 p.m. every evning.

5. The letter .............(post) a week ago and it ............(arrive) yesterday.

6. The boat ....................(sink) quickly but fortunately everybody .................(rescue).

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8. I was born in London but I ......... (grow) up inthe north of England.

Answer 1

2. how was the glass made?

3. When was the Australia discovered?

4.What is the silver using for?

5. When was the television intented?

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.THE plastic bags were gave to people by shops fifty years ago.

3. The ships weren't made from metal by people in the past.\

4. -

5. The silk-making was developed by someone in China

6. Was the simple computer done by someone in the nineteenth century.

7.Maths was invented by nobody in Europe.