Tip of the Month

Teaching Tip

Students like to do games and quizzes. Here is one quiz you can do when you need to practice the Passive Voice.

The Passive Voice Quiz

Students are divided into groups of 3-5. On the board, teacher writes numbers of the questions (1, 2, 3, 4,  …) and draws a grid in which she will write points the groups get for correct answers.
For each correct answer/sentence a group gets 1 point. Students should produce full answers using the Passive Voice.

Group A starts by choosing one of the numbers on the board. Teacher crosses out the number and reads out the question from her list. Students have 20 seconds to think and then answer the question. If they don’t know the answer or if it is incorrect, the other groups may try to get an extra point (on “first come, first served” basis).
Then group B takes its turn and the quiz goes on in the same way. At the end of the game the group with the best score may be given something (sweets, pictures, stickers…) as a prize

The questions (and answers)

1. Where was President Kennedy killed?      (Dallas,Texas)

2. When was America discovered?   (year: 1492)

3. Where was Shakespeare born?                 (in Stratford-upon-Avon)

4. Who was “The Godfather” directed by?     (Francis Ford Copola)

5. When was Belgrade liberated (in the Second World War)? (20th October 1944 )

6. Who was “Nineteen Eighty-Four” written by?         (George Orwell)

7. Who was penicillin discovered by? (Alexander Fleming)

8. Who was “Guernica” painted by?                (Picasso)

9. Who was the film “Star Wars” directed by?           (George Lucas)

10. Who was Snoopy created by?                    (Charles Schulz)

11. Who was Mad Max acted by?                     (Mel Gibson)

12. Who was “Aida” composed by?                  (Giuseppe Verdi)

13. Who was Walkman stereo made by?         (Sony)

14. Who was the light bulb invented by?           (Thomas Edison)

15. Who was the Serbian Orthodox Church founded by?  (St.Sava – Rastko Nemanjic)

16. Who was “Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” recorded by? (The Beatles)

17.  Who was Mickey Mouse created by?        (Walt Disney)

18.  Who was “War and Peace” written by?     (Leo Tolstoy)

19.  Who was Sultan Murat I killed by? (Milos Obilic)

20.  Who was the Microsoft company started by?       (Bill Gates)

21.  Who was the theory of relativity developed by? (Albert Einstain)

22.  Who was the mini skirt invented by?                      (Mary Quant)

23.  Who was “Carmen” composed by?           (Georges Bizet)

24. Who was Dr Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language published by?    (by Longman – in 1755)