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The Passive: Present
simple / Past simple
1 Completa le frasi usando la forma passiva corretta
del Present simple dei verbi tra parentesi.
1
In Britain some medicines _________ (sell) in
supermarkets.
2
Millions of text messages _________ (send) every
day.
3
Chianti _________ (produce) in Tuscany.
4
English _________ (speak) all over the world.
5
Some websites _________ (visit) by thousands of
people every day.
6
A lot of fi lms _________ (make) in the United States.
7
Pizza _________ (eat) all over he world.
8
All credit cards _________ (accept) in this
restaurant.
9
The Financial Times _________ (write) in English.
10
This programme _________ (watch) by millions of
people.
2 Completa le frasi usando la forma passiva corretta
del Past simple dei verbi tra parentesi.
1
The Ferrari California ______________ (design) by
Pininfarina.
2
Avatar ______________ (direct) by James Cameron.
3
The World Wide Web ______________ (invent) by
Tim Berners-Lee.
4
The 2010 World Cup ______________ (win) by Spain.
5
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
______________ (write) by J.K. Rowling.
6
The 2008 Olympic Games ______________ (hold) in
Beijing.
7
The Statue of Liberty ______________ (build) in
France.
8
David Beckham ______________ (buy) by Real
Madrid in 2003.
9
The Mona Lisa ______________ (paint) by Leonardo
da Vinci.
10
The Nabucco ______________ (compose) by Verdi.
3 Completa l’articolo con la forma passiva corretta
del Past simple dei verbi tra parentesi.
Young people are healthy, sporting, and
conscientious about school
A survey
1
____________ (carry) out last month to
fi nd out about the lives of young Britons. The results
of the survey
2
____________ (publish) in all major
newspapers yesterday. The survey
3
____________
(develop) to improve local authorities’ services to
young people. More than 111,000 youngsters
4
____________ (interview). Questionnaires
5
____________ (send) to schools or
6
____________
(email) to youth clubs nationwide. The questions
in the survey
7
____________ (design) to refl ect the
priorities set out in the Government’s Every Child
Matters initiative which
8
____________ (launch) last
month. 86% of the participants think they are quite
or very healthy and 73% take part in sports. 50% of
respondents plan to go to university when they leave
school. The information that emerged from the survey
9
____________ (give) to schools and local authorities
who can compare their results with the national
picture.
4 Completa le frasi con la forma passiva corretta
(Present simple o Past simple) dei verbi tra parentesi.
1
Spanish _____________________ (speak) by millions
of people in the USA.
2
The fi rst Harry Potter book _____________________
(publish) in 1997.
3
All rooms _____________________ (clean) every
morning.
4
Facebook _____________________ (start) in 2006.
5
Google _____________________ (found) by Larry
Page and Sergey Brin.
6
In Britain football matches _____________________
(play) on Saturdays.
7
Penicillin _____________________ (discover) by
Alexander Fleming.
8
Reality shows _____________________ (watch) by
millions of people.
9
In Italy stamps _____________________ (sell) in
tobacconists’.
10
The British Museum _____________________ (visit)
by thousands of people every year.
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Date _________________________
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5 Usa i suggerimenti dati per scrivere frasi complete
con la forma passiva corretta (Present simple o Past simple).
1
The Da Vinci Code / publish / 2003
2
German / speak / some parts of Italy
3
Microsoft / found / Bill Gates
4
Nowadays / a lot of products / sell / Internet
5
Twitter / start / 2007
6
Rice / grow / China and India
7
The Eiffel Tower / build / nineteenth century
8
Golf / usually / play / summer
9
The album / release / 2010
10
Lots of interesting programmes / broadcast / radio
6 Riscrivi le frasi trasformandole dall’attivo al
passivo. Indica il complemento d’agente solo quando è
importante.
1
They make a lot of cars in Korea.
2
A lot of people in Pakistan play cricket.
3
The IT teacher took the students to a computer fair.
4
A technician repaired my computer.
5
Mark Chapman killed John Lennon in 1980.
6
Novak Djokovic won Wimbledon in 2011.
7
Robert invited Alison to the school party.
8
They serve lunch from 12.00 to 2 p.m.
9
A lot of people use computers to buy their holidays.
10
They speak Portuguese in Brazil.
7 Leggi il brano e sottolinea le frasi che
potrebbero essere volte in forma passiva. Riscrivi poi le
frasi che hai sottolineato volgendole al passivo.
A brief history of the Internet
People consider the Internet to be the driving force
for change in all aspects of human communications.
But how did it all start?
In 1969 the US government funded a special project:
they called it ARPANET (Advanced Research Project
Agency Network). At fi rst, they limited the project
to military matters, but later they connected many
universities to facilitate the exchange of information
via computer. Everybody considers Vinton Cerf to
be the father of the Internet: he devised a program
which he fi rst used at the University of Los Angeles.
However, the Internet became popular only 20
years later. In 1989 the staff at CERN in Geneva
developed the World Wide Web. In 1991 an American
student wrote a revolutionary program: he called it
Mosaic. This is a hypertext system which contains
text, images, sound and video. This system links
documents to each other. Today telephone lines
connect millions of computers.
8 TRANSLATION Traduci.
1
Il festival è stato organizzato per la prima volta nel
1970.
2
Dove sono fatti i migliori gelati?
3
Queste scarpe non sono prodotte in Italia.
4
La radio è stata inventata da Marconi?
5
Il programma è trasmesso in duecento paesi.
6
La partita è stata vinta dalla nostra squadra.
7
I soldi sono stati trovati in una borsa nera.
8
Quante lingue si parlano in Italia?
9
L’uomo è stato arrestato ieri mattina.
10
Questo articolo è scritto da un giornalista francese.
