2. Make the active sentences passive. Include the word by.

1. Complete the sentences below with the present simple passive form of the verbs in brackets.

1   Millions of mobile phones _________________every year. (sell)

2   American football _________________very much in the UK. (not play)

3   _________________tablets _________________in your school? (use)

4   Most crimes _________________in big cities. (commit)

5   Rubber trees _________________in cold countries. (not grow)

6   _________________Samsung televisions _________________ in Korea? (make)

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3. Put the words below in the correct order. (Remember where to put the adverb.)

1   satnavs. / are / Phones / used as / sometimes.

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2   Was / Bob Dylan? / Make you feel my love / first / by / sung

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3   invented / The wheel / about 5,000 years ago. / probably / was

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4   quickly / was / The suspect / arrested.

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5   the missing jewelry / ever / found? / Was

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4. Complete the fact file below with the past simple passive form of the verbs in brackets.

COMPUTERS: a short history

• The first computer (1)__________________ (invent) by Charles Babbage in the early 19th century. It (2)__________________ (not power) by electricity – it was mechanical.
• The first electronic digital computer (3)_________________ (build) in 1943 in Britain. It (4)__________________ (call) ‘Colossus’ and it (5)__________________ (use) for decoding enemy messages in the war.
• Businesses began to use computers in the 1950s, but computers (6)__________________ (not sell) in shops until the early 1970s.
• The first desktop computers (7)__________________ (develop) in the late 1970s.
• Internet access via a modem (8)_________________ (add) in the 1990s, but wireless access (9)__________________ (not add) to most computers until about 2000.
• For the first time, in 2015, more tablets and smartphones (10)__________________ (sell) than laptops and desktops. Will computers eventually disappear from our homes and schools?

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