Monday 2 February 2009

Passive voice

Look at the following address and review the use of passive voice. Do the exercises

http://www.mansioningles.com/gram55.htm

Then look at the following song and look at the lyrics. Underline the verbs and say the tenses you recognise.

http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/c/coldplay/viva_la_vida.html


Have fun

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

first exercise
a) shop
b) pub
c) hotel
d) car park
e) restaurant
f) airport
g) library
h) web page
i) garage

second exercise

made
invited
translated
broken into
stolen
changed
built
attacked
redecorated
born
offered



Remember those walls I built?
Well, baby they are tumbling down
And they didn't even put up a fight
They didn't even make a sound
I found a way to let you in
But, I never really had a doubt
Standing in the light of your halo
I got my angel now

It's like I've been awakened
Every rule I had, you break it
It's the risk that I'm taking
I ain't never gonna shut you out!

Everywhere I'm looking now
I'm surrounded by your embrace
Baby, I can see your halo
You know you're my saving grace
You're everything I need and more
It's written all over your face
Baby, I can feel your halo
Pray it won't fade away

I can feel your halo
I can see your halo
I can feel your halo
I can see your halo
Halo, ooh ooh.....

Hit me like a ray of sun
Burning through my darkest night
You're the only one that I want
Think I'm addicted to your light
I swore I'd never fall again
But this don't even feel like falling
Gravity can't forget
To pull me back to the ground again

It's like I've been awakened
Every rule I had, you break it
It's the risk that I'm taking
I'm never gonna shut you out!

Everywhere I'm looking now
I'm surrounded by your embrace
Baby, I can see your halo
You know you're my saving grace
You're everything I need and more
It's written all over your face
Baby, I can feel your halo
I pray it won't fade away

I can feel your halo
I can see your halo
I can feel your halo
I can see your halo
Halo, ooh ooh.....
I can feel your halo
I can see your halo
I can feel your halo
I can see your halo
Halo, ooh ooh.....
Halo, ooh ooh.....
Halo, ooh ooh, ooooh........

Everywhere I'm looking now
I'm surrounded by your embrace
Baby, I can see your halo
You know you're my saving grace
You're everything I need and more
It's written all over your face
Baby, I can feel your halo
I pray it won't fade away

I can feel your halo
I can see your halo
I can feel your halo
I can see your halo
Halo, ooh oooh.......
I can feel your halo
I can see your halo
I can feel your halo
I can see your halo
Halo, ooh oooh

una pasiva por ejemplo es
I'm surrounded

Itziar de la mata y nerea pardo 2ºA

Anonymous said...


a) shop
b) pub
c) hotel
d) car park
e)restaurant
f) airport
g) library
h) web page
i) garage


a) haven’t been made .
2. we’ll be invited
3. it will probably be translated
4. flat was broken month, was stolen.
5. the date had been changed
6. centre is being built
7. she had been attacked
8. it’s being redecorated.
9. Elton John was born
10. I still wasn’t offered


PILAR DELGADO Y SANDRA BARAJAS 2ªA BTO

Anonymous said...

you were made for me - sam cooke

A fish was made to swim in the ocean
A boat was made to sail on the sea
As sure as there is a God above
Darling, I know you were made for me

You were made for me
A grape was made for a vine
An apple was made to grow on a tree
As sure as there is a God above
Darling, I know you were made for me

We'll have our quarrels and you'll upset me
But what can I do
Oh you've been mine ever since I met you
And I'll never, never, never, never, never leave you

As sure as there's a heaven above me
From you I know I'll never be free
As sure as there is a God above
Darling, I know you were made for me

*was made

Itziar de la Mata 2ºA bto

Anonymous said...

hello teacher.I am Daniel Campuzano Ruiz of 2A.
1) shop
2) pub
3) hotel
4) car park
5) restaurant
6 airport
7) library
8) web page
9) garage
1. The beds in our room haven’t been made yet.
2. Do you think we’ll be invited to the party?
3. La Mansión del Inglés is so successful it will probably be translated into twenty different languages.
4. When our flat was broken into last month, my laptop computer was stolen.
5. I went to work early to go to the meeting yesterday and I realised that the date had been changed to the 13th February.
6. A new sports centre is being built in front of our house and it’s completely spoiling our view of the sea.
7. When I saw my grandmother yesterday she told me she had been attacked in the street on her way to bingo.
8. Cathy can’t use her office until next week as it’s being redecorated.
9. Elton John was born in Pinner, Middlesex, England.
10. I thought the interview went well, but I still wasn’t offered the job.

Anonymous said...

1)
a) shop
b) pub
c) hotel
d) car park
e) restaurant
f) airport
g) library
h) web page
i) garage

2)
1)haven’t been made
2)we’ll be invited
3)it will be translated
4)was broken into/was stolen
5)had been changed
6)is being built
7)she had been attacked
8)it’s being redecorated
9)Elton John was born
10)I wasn’t offered


ARIANNA SANFIEL GONZALEZ 2ºA BACH

Anonymous said...

Hello teacher!

exercises:
1-a) shop
b) pub
c) hotel
d) car park
e) restaurant
f) airport
g) library
h) web page
i) garage

2- 1.haven’t been made
2.we’ll be invited
3.it will be translated
4.was broken- was stoln
5.had been changed
6.is being built
7.she had been attacked
8.it’s being redecorated
9.elton was born
10.I wasn’t offered

Song:

I could hardly believe it when I heard the news today
I had to come and get it straight from you
They said you were leaving, someone swept your heart away
From the look upon your face I see it's true
So tell me all about it, tell me 'bout the plans you're makin'
Then tell me one thing more before I go

Tell me how am I supposed to live without you
Now that I've been lovin' you so long
How am I supposed to live without you
And how am I supposed to carry on
When all that I've been livin' for is gone

Didn't come here for cryin', didn't come here to break down
It's just a dream of mine is comin' to an end
How can I blame you when I built my world around
The hope that one day we'd be so much more than friends
And I don't wanna know the price I'm gonna pay for dreamin'
I need you know, it's more than I can take

Tell me how am I supposed to live without you
Now that I've been lovin' you so long
How am I supposed to live without you
And how am I supposed to carry on
When all that I've been livin' for is gone

And I don't wanna know the price I'm gonna pay for dreamin'
Now that your dream has come true

Tell me how am I supposed to live without you
Now that I've been loving you so long
How am I supposed to live without you
And how am I supposed to carry on
All that I've been livin' for is gone

Without you, after I've been lovin' you so long
How am I supposed to live without you
And how am I supposed to carry on
When all that I've been ... [fade out]

http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/l/laura_branigan/how_am_i_supposed_to_live_without_you.html

SARA ALONSO 2ºA

Anonymous said...

LETRA DE LA CANCION SHAKIRA - UNDERNEATH YOUR CLOTHES (SERVICIO DE LAVANDERIA [ENGLISH])
You're a song
Written by the hands of God
Don't get me wrong cause
This might sound to you a bit odd
But you own the place
Where all my thoughts go hiding
And right under your clothes
Is where i find them

Underneath your clothes
There's an endless story
There's the man i chose
There's my territory
And all the things i deserve
For being such a good girl honey

Because of you
I forgot the smart ways to lie
Bacsue of you
I'm running out of reasobs to cry
When te friends are gone
When te party's over
We will still belong to each other

Underneath your clothes
There's an endless story
There's the man i chose
There's my territory
And all the things i deserve
For being such a good girl honey

Underneath your clothes
There's an endless story
There's the man i chose
There's my territory
And all the things i deserve
For being such a good girl, being such a good girl...

I love you more than all that's on the planet
Movin' Talkin' walkin' breathing
You know it's true
Oh baby it's so funny
You almost don't belive it
As every voice is hanging from the silence
Lamps are hanging from the ceiling
Like a lady to her good manners
I'm tied up to this feeling

Underneath your clothes
There's an endless story
There's the man i chose
There's my territory
And all the things i deserve
For being such a good girl honey

Underneath your clothes
Ooooohhhhh
There's the man i chose
There's my territory
And all the things i deserve
For being such a good girl, being such a good girl
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...


NEREA PARDO NAVARRO 2ºA BACH.

Anonymous said...

coldplay (la pasiva está en mayusculas)


Letra De Lost+
Just because I'm losing
Doesn't mean I'm lost
Doesn't mean I'll stop
Doesn't mean I'm across

Just because I'm hurting
Doesn't mean I'm hurt
Doesn't mean I didn't get what I deserved
No better and no worse

I just got lost!
Every river that I tried to cross
Every door I ever tried WAS LOCKED
Ohhh and I'm just waiting til the shine wears off

You might be a big fish
In a little pond
Doesn't mean you've won
'Cause along may come
A bigger one

And YOU'LL BE LOST!
Every river that you tried to cross
Every gun you ever held went off
Ohhh and I'm just waiting til the firing's stopped
Ohhh and I'm just waiting til the shine wears off

(Jay-Z)
Yeah
...just waitin' til the... the... yeah
Aha, I gotcha, uh...
With the same sword they knight you, they gon' good night you with
Shit, that's only half if they like you
That ain't even the half what they might do
Don't believe me, ask Michael
C. Martin, see Malcolm
See Biggie, see Pac, see success and its outcome
See Jesus, see Judas
See Caesar, see Brutus, see success is like suicide
Suicide, it's a suicide
If you succeed, prepare to be crucified
Media meddles, niggaz sue you, you settle

Every step you take, they remind you you're ghetto
So it's tough being Bobby Brown
To be Bobby then, you have to be Bobby now
And the question is, "Is to have had and lost
Better than not having at all?"
Because I'm...

(Chris)
Ohhh and I'm just waiting til the shine wears off
Ohhh and I'm just waiting til the shine wears off


PILAR DELGADO 2ºA BTO

Anonymous said...

hello!!

Don't, honey don't, go away, no no
Don't you hear, don't you hear,
What I say, what I say
Give me time, give me time
I'm gonna make your love as strong as mine
But I know Rome wasn't built in a day

Now, you know that I love you dear with all my heart
I know that you didn't love me from the start
But I planted a lil' seed in your heart I know
And it just needs time to grow, baby

Don't, honey don't, go away, no no
Don't you hear, don't you hear,
What I say, what I say
Give me time, give me time
I'm gonna make your love as strong as mine
But I know Rome wasn't built in a day
Listen to me honey now

How would Romeo feel if his Juliet
Had turned down his advances and played hard to get
He wouldn't have let this bother him, this I know
Because where there's light there's hope
Oh!

Baby, don't go away, no no
Don't you hear now, don't you hear now,
What I say, what I say
Give me time, give me time
I'm gonna make your love as strong as mine
But I know Rome wasn't built in a day

Don't you hear me telling you that
ROME WASN'T BUILT IN A DAY
Don't you realize that
Rome wasn't built in a day

la pasiva esta en mayúscula
sandra barajas 2ºA