With this lesson, students will master the passive voice across a range of tenses while practicing real-world applications—from news headlines and everyday processes to storytelling and film production.
lesson overview
This B1-B2 ESL lesson helps learners understand and confidently use the passive voice in a variety of tenses and real-life contexts. Through grammar practice, sentence transformations, creative speaking prompts, and a video-based task, students learn how to shift focus from the doer to the action itself. The lesson is available in both a printable format and an online presentation, designed for smooth navigation in presentation mode using only the spacebar.
Target Audience:
- Level:B1–B2 (Intermediate to Upper-Intermediate)
- Best for: Adults, older teenagers
Content Breakdown:
- Warm-Up Discussion
- Grammar Focus
- Identify Active or Passive
- Sentence Transformation Practice
- Fill-in-the-Gaps Exercise
- Describe the Scene
- How It’s Made Tasks – Describe everyday processes
- Pass the Passive Game
- Topic-Based Speaking
HOMEWORK (Extra Language Immersion):
Video and Quiz:
Watch a short video about film effects, describe how scenes were made and answer comprehension questions using full passive voice sentences.