ESL Worksheets
Passive voice practice - news story - The president has been shot
Worksheet description
News story gap fill to practice the written forms of different tenses in the passive voice. Step-by-step instructions included.
Instructions
Give out the first sheet containing a gapped text along with a list of the past participles and another list of the adverbs that are used in the story.
Students first match the past participles with the gaps in the text.
They then find the correct auxiliary verbs from the second list and add them to the main verbs.
Finally, they add two adverbs (ending in ‘ly’) into the right places in the story.