In this enjoyable teaching activity, students identify sentences about facts and inventions in the present and past passive. Each group is given 20 sentences about facts and inventions, but each sentence is in two parts. Their task is to find 20 facts by correctly matching the two parts of each sentence. When all of the sentences have been correctly matched, the students put the cards into two designated piles. The group members take it in turns to turn over one card from each pile. If the two cards go together to make a correct fact, the student reads the passive sentence out loud, keeps the two cards and plays again. If they do not go together, the student reads the sentence aloud, but turns it into a negative passive statement. The student with the most cards at the end of the activity is the winner.
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