📰 English Is Spoken Everywhere — Passive Voice

This A2 Teens lesson teaches the passive voice — one of the most useful and underused tools in intermediate English. Learners often understand passive sentences when reading but avoid producing them when speaking; this lesson fixes that with a single, transferable formula (be + past participle / V3) applied across four tenses: present, past, future, and modal. You'll learn when the passive is the natural choice (the doer is unknown, irrelevant, or less important than the receiver), how to add by + agent when the doer does matter, and how to avoid the most common A2 trap: confusing the past simple form (V2) with the past participle (V3). Four magazine stories anchor the grammar in vivid teenage voices: Sirikit tours a Bangkok silk factory built on present passives, Diego loses and recovers a beloved bicycle in Mexico City through past passives, Aoife edits her Dublin school newspaper using future and present-perfect passives, and Wanjiru writes a moral plea for Kenyan rhinos using modal passives. The lesson includes 10 essential irregular V3 forms in vocabulary, six flashcards transforming active sentences into passive ones, eight colour-coded fill-in-the-blanks across all four tenses, a speaking task about places, products, and news, a writing task producing a short news report, and an 8-question quiz.