Lessonpills Professional Writing: Using the Passive Voice for Formality
Lessonpills Professional Writing: Using the Passive Voice for Formality holds a ninety-minute B2 lesson built around an audio recording, with eleven exercises worked on the page. Lessonpills publishes ESL lessons built on authentic audio for learners and teachers. This one works on the passive for a formal tone, five vocabulary items from the recording, phrases for presenting findings, and a discussion task.
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The lesson is built on an audio recording and runs through eleven exercises: a warm-up, listening comprehension questions, the grammar of the passive with its rules, error correction, five vocabulary items with usage notes, a matching task, phrases for presenting findings and recommendations, a cloze passage, a short reading and a discussion.
Work through the exercises in the order given: the listening first, then the grammar, then the error correction, which puts the passive mistakes learners make most often in front of you. The practical English section hands you ready phrases for presenting findings and recommendations, and the discussion task asks you to use them, so the formal tone is practiced aloud as well as on paper.
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