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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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2. Make the active sentences passive. Include the word by.
1 Millions of people watched the 2014 World Cup Final on TV.
The 2014 World Cup Final was watched by millions of people on TV.
2 Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin.
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3 Rafa Nadal didn’t win the watch.
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4 Robots made that car.
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5 Did Suzanne Collins write the Hunger Games books?
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6 Peter Jackson directed the Hobbit films.
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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?