Grade 10 ESL Teacher Resources: Passive Voice — Games, Activities and Exit Tickets

Learning Objectives

• Explain when and why we use the passive voice.
• Form the passive with be + past participle in the present simple, past simple, present perfect and future, and with modal verbs.
• Use the past participles of common regular and irregular verbs correctly.
• Change active sentences into the passive and decide when to include "by + agent".
• Use the passive to describe a process and to write a short news report.

How to Use This Resource

• Where Is It Made?: Look at real labels on bags, pencils, clothes and food packets.
• Famous Firsts Quiz: Read each question aloud.
• Passive Relay: Read an active sentence: "They clean the rooms every day."
• Exit tickets: hand out in the last 3–5 minutes and sort into got it / nearly / not yet.

Teacher Tips

Real labels ("Made in Vietnam") are a great hook for the present simple passive. News headlines are full of passives — use the day's news in lesson 4.

What's Included

• Activity 1: Where Is It Made? (12 minutes, Pairs)
• Activity 2: Famous Firsts Quiz (12 minutes, Teams of 3–4)
• Activity 3: Passive Relay (10 minutes, Two or three teams)
• 4 cut-out exit tickets with answers

Additional Files

• Grade 10 ESL Teacher Resources: Passive Voice — Games, Activities and Exit Tickets (DOCX)

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