PASSIVE VOICE
I. Fill in the sentences with the correct form of the passive:
1 Please wait in the lounge while your room
(clean).
2 From next week, you _ (expect) to arrive at work on time.
3 Too much money _ (spend) last year on personal expenses.
4 Most of the pollution in city centers
(cause) by traffic jams.
5 Around £500,000_ (steal) from a bank in London this afternoon.
6 Next year over 2,000,000 mobile phones
(make) in China.
7 Kill Bill
(direct) by Quentin Tarantino.
II. Complete the jokes by putting the verbs in brackets in the correct passive:
1. A teacher asked her class to write an essay about a football match. A minute later all
the students were writing except one boy. The teacher looked at his paper. It said,
"The game ....................... (stop) in the first minute by rain."
2. “Why ..............the tennis player .............(give) a cigarette lighter at the end of
the competition?”
“I don't know”
"Because he had lost all his matches"
3. “Mum, do all fairy tales begin with <Once upon a time>?"
"No, darling. Some start with : < Sorry I'm so late, darling, I
.. (detain)
at the office>"
III. Complete these jokes by putting the verbs given in the correct perfect passive
form:
1. “Why are you putting a bandage over your pay cheque?"
“Because my salary ..........just............. (cut)"
2. A man went to a hospital for a new brain. He was given a choice between two
brains - an engineer's for 30,000 $ or a politician's for 600,000 $.
"Does that mean the politician's brain is much better?"
“Not exactly, said the doctor. The politician's brain ......never ........(use).
3. "I .......................(ask) to get married hundreds of times."
“Oh! Who by?"
"My parents"
4. A man was visiting his friend in hospital.
"You ....................(miss) by everybody at the factory."
“That's nice"
“Yes. Yesterday the boss came to me and said:<What's happened to what's-his-
name?>"​