Ingles.Nivel:polimodal 3º Hum.Prof:Hernandez

CURSO: 3er año Polimodal. Hum y Cs Soc.
PROFESORA: Mariela Hernández
MATERIA: Lengua extranjera (Inglés)
FECHA DE ENTREGA: 3 de Agosto o antes
MAIL: (para consulta o entrega de trabajos) mariela-hernandez@hotmail.com

1) Turn into the passive
a) Someone is repairing the garden fence……………………………………………
b) Sam took these photographs………………………………………………………
c) Their nanny takes the children to the park every day. ……………………………..
d) Michael has made the preparations. ………………………………………………
e) Helen had packed the suitcases before she left the house. …………………………
f) The boss is going to give us a pay rise…………………………………………….
g) Jill hasn’t done the housework yet. ……………………………………………….
h) Terry offered her a lift to work. ……………………………………………………
i) Emma is showing them the photographs. ………………………………………….
j) Ellie will take the children to school. ………………………………………………

2) Rewrite the sentences in the Passive beginning with the words given. Leave out the doer of the action if not necessary.

0 The director has cancelled the meeting.
The meeting has been cancelled (by the director) .

1 Lawrence Ferlinghetii opened the oldest paperback book store in the United States in 1953.
The oldest paperback book store in the United States ________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ .

2 The police are interviewing him in connection with the armed robbery.
He ________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________ .

3 More than a billion people all over the world speak English.
English ____________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________ .

4 They will officially announce their engagement tomorrow.
Their engagement ____________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________ .

5 Tom is not going to invite me to his party.
I __________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________ .

6 Our physical education teacher can make a good basketball player of every pupil.
Every pupil _________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________ .

Reading
1) Read the text below and put the sentences (A–F) in the gaps (1–5). There is one extra sentence.

A It was then that the Beetle in Wolfsburg was replaced
B Many people today are of the opinion that Volkswagens are
C The production of the ‘T’ model continued for 20 years
D There were vans and various sizes and types of trucks
E Over the years, there were many models of Volkswagens,
F The War interrupted development of the Beetle

A legend on wheels
In the 1930s, the Wolfsburg car factory in Germany produced the first inexpensive car ‘for the people’ – the Beetle. Nobody really expected it to be such a great success. It was the idea of the well-known constructor, Ferdinand Porsche, and it immediately became even more popular than Ford’s ‘T’ model which was at that time the most modern and popular car.

1 _____ without interruption between 1908–1927. The Beetle had a production life of forty-eight years between 1935–1978. This model had not changed throughout the years, except for some modifications in the engine. It remained the same size, and was relatively cheap and simple in construction. Even today, the Volkswagen Beetle is still manufactured in Brazil under the original licence.
2 _____ and the factory was used for military production. However, as soon as the war ended, Beetle production restarted and by 1972 the total number of cars produced increased to over 15,000,000.
3 _____ by the new Golf model which actually had nothing in common with its older brother. The car designers decided to make a car completely different from their original model. In 1975, Volkswagen introduced this new Golf in the United States where it was called ‘Rabbit’.
4 _____ produced by using the Beetle and Golf as a starting point and including many other concepts and standards. The mass media advertised the entire family of Volkswagen cars: Passat, Jetta, Polo, Derby. They were manufactured in Emden, Osnabruck, Wolfsburg and other German cities.
5 _____ among the most comfortable and powerful cars in Europe. Although the Beetle is hardly ever seen in the streets any more, the owners of the few remaining Beetle models still make an effort to keep their small cars in the best possible condition. What is more, they are very proud of driving a car with a history behind it.

(adapted from The World of English)

2)Underline and copy all the sentences or part of sentences that are in the passive in the text.