Методическая разработка "Automobile Production, inventions and Passive Voice".

Fill in the gaps: was named; made; is known; are sold; is pronounced

Take a look around the room. How many people are wearing Nike? Millions of items of Nike sportswear ____________ every year, and the company is now the world’s biggest sportswear manufacturer. The company – whose name ____________ Nyekee – has come a long way from its small origins in the US state of Oregon. The company ___________ after the Greek goddess of victory, and ___________ its first shoes back in the 1970s. Nowadays, Nike ___________

for its clever advertising campaigns, using the world’s best-known sportsmen and women.

2. Read the text and answer the questions:

(a) Where was the first car built?

(b) Who was the first person to travel more than 100

kilometres in a car?

(c) In which country were cars first produced in large numbers

in factories?

The first motor car was built by Karl Benz in Germany

in 1885.The first petrol engine had been designed some

years earlier, but Benz was the first to fit it successfully in

a vehicle that he could mass-produce. On 5 August 1888,

his wife Bertha drove the car for 106 kilometres, proving

that the car could travel long distances. Today, Bertha

Benz's famous drive is celebrated as a national holiday

every year in Germany. However, it was in America that

cars were first produced in large numbers in factories.

Henry Ford founded the Ford Motor Company in 1903,

and since then over a billion cars have been manufactured

by companies all over the world. Now, over a hundred

years later, over 63 million cars are built every year. Many

environmentalists believe we should replace cars with

greener means of transport, but motor companies are

confident that cleaner engines will be developed.

3. Make the sentences passive. Use by where necessary.

(a) Karl Benz built the first motor car in 1885. – The first motor car was built by Karl Benz in 1885.

(b) Engineering works have caused a lot of delays. - ________________________________________________________

(c) They'll probably search your bags at customs. - ________________________________________________________

(d) The guard had already directed us to platform 4 . - ________________________________________________________

(e) They've recently increased the price of rail tickets. - ________________________________________________________

(f) Somebody left this bag on the plane. - ________________________________________________________

4. Complete the text with the passive form of the verbs in brackets.

'

For some years I have been

afflicted with the belief that

flight is possible to man.'

Wilbur Wright.

Today, 17 December 1903___________ (remember) as the day when

the first powered f light _________(make) by two brothers, Wilbur and

Orville Wright. The plane _________(make) of wood and

_________ (power) a small petrol engine. It _______(control) the

pilot who pulled strings that changed the angle of the wings. By the

time the aircraft took to the air, the engine and propeller _________

(test) thoroughly in their workshop. The flights __________(witness)

By five people and a photograph __________(take) of the first flight. The

events _________(report) in the press on the next day and the brothers

became celebrities over night. Since that day, f lying ___________(become)

an everyday form of transport, but it all began with the ingenuity of

the Wright brothers.

5. Work with a partner. Student A and B have different questions. Ask and answer the questions. Use the Past Simple Passive.

Student B

1 Where/ London Bridge/ move to in 1971?

Alaska or Arizona?

2 When/ the first television picture/ produce? 1925 or 1950?

3 Which Beatle/ the song Imagine/ sing by?

Paul McCartney or John Lennon?

4 Who/ trainers/ first invent by? Adidas or Nike?

5 When/ Princess Diana/ kill in a car crash? 1987 or 1997?