Active/ Passive True/ False quiz

Active Passive True/ False quiz

New Headway Pre-Intermediate Unit 11

With your partner, try to guess which of the things below aren’t true.

• The electric chair was invented by a dentist
• 10% of Americans have appeared on TV
• Chewing gum will stop you crying when you’re cutting onions
• A sneeze travels at 10 miles per hour
• Ice cream was first made in Italy
• More wine is produced in Italy than France
• The first underground railway was opened in New York
• The first jeans were made by Levi Strauss (a German tailor)
• The original VW Beetle was designed by Ferdinand Porsche
• Mirrors were invented by the ancient Egyptians
• Windmills always turn anticlockwise (= the opposite direction to a clock)
• The rubber tyre was invented by John Dunlop
• The first football World Cup was played in 1960
• Over 3 million flowers are grown in the Netherlands (=Holland) each year
• Bats always turn left when flying out of a cave

Read out guesses that you are confident about and see if the class agrees and then if it is true or not.

Ask about any which you don’t understand.

Identify the active and passive tenses above

Adapted from “Did you know?” (Reward Elementary Resource Pack activity 38) and “Believe it or not True or False?” (Clockwise Intermediate Resource Pack pg 44)

Notes for teachers

As a more challenging variation, you can ask students to both identify the tense and answer the question to get a point.

To add listening (and save paper), you could read out the questions instead of giving out the worksheets.

Answers

1. The electric chair was invented by a dentist TRUE
2. 10% of Americans have appeared on TV FALSE (really 25% of Americans)
3. Chewing gum will stop you from crying when you are cutting onions TRUE
4. A sneeze travels at 10 miles per hour FALSE (really 100 mph)
5. Ice cream was first made in Italy FALSE (in China)
6. More wine is produced in Italy than France TRUE
7. The first underground railway was opened in New York FALSE (in London)
8. The first jeans were made by Levi Strauss (a German tailor) TRUE
9. The original VW Beetle was designed by Ferdinand Porsche TRUE
10. Mirrors were invented by the ancient Egyptians TRUE
11. Windmills always turn anticlockwise (= the opposite direction to a clock) TRUE
12. The rubber tyre was invented by John Dunlop TRUE
13. The first football World Cup was played in 1960 FALSE (1930)
14. Over 3 million flowers are grown in the Netherlands (=Holland) each year FALSE (3 billion)
15. Bats always turn left when flying out of a cave TRUE

Adapted from “Did you know?” (Reward Elementary Resource Pack activity 38) and “Believe it or not True or False?” (Clockwise Intermediate Resource Pack pg 44)

Worksheet 2

with vocabulary from New Headway Pre-Intermediate Unit 11

Make passive sentences including the words below, and your partner will guess if the sentence is true, is false or is something that you don’t know

• Champagne
• Rolls Royce
• the coca plant
• invent
• factory
• produce
• steal
• Hamburg
• large quantities
• the Arctic Circle
• stamp
• beard
• briefcase
• a lift
• aunt
• tobacco
• plantation
• lung
• refine
• ban
• chew
• harvest
• slave/ slavery
• skeleton
• tree sap
• pick
• soil
• sugar cane
• the London Underground (= the Tube)
• petrol station
• public toilet
• rubber
• electric sign
• billboard
• soldier
• toothache

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