5 Tips for Teaching the Passive Voice to English Learners | Resources for Passive Voice

Here are five key teaching tips for the passive voice. It’s a bit of a tricky grammar point, but with this video, you will be a pro in no time. In this video, I give 5 examples of how to teach the passive voice. Keep on watching for all the details! ------- • Check out this blog post for more details including activities, worksheets and lesson plans for this unit: https://www.eslactivity.org/passive-games-esl/ • Want a video on when, why and how to use the passive voice? Watch @engvidAdam video here: https://youtu.be/C6pHfjH0Efg • Want another video for English learners? Watch my Homophones video here: https://youtu.be/p4c-DPcM_1Y ------ Check out my book English Vocabulary Builder Workbook here: https://amzn.to/42udKYr https://www.facebook.com/eslspeaking https://www.pinterest.ca/eslspeaking/ https://www.instagram.com/jackie.bolen/ https://www.tiktok.com/@englishwithjackie?lang=en #teachingenglishwithjackie #eslgames #passivevoice -------------------------------------------------------- Transcript Teaching the Passive Voice: Hi this is Jackie from eslspeaking.org, today I'm going to talk about when to use the passive voice. So don't use the passive voice all the time in writing or speaking. It's not a great way to speak or write in English, however there are some very specific situations in which you might want to use the passive voice, I will talk about six of them. So the first case is if you don't know who did the action. For example, I was at work and I came back to my desk and the cake was eaten. I had cake on my desk, someone ate it but I don't know who ate it. The second one; is it doesn't matter who did the action. So for example, a solar plant will be built. It doesn't matter who will build it, somebody will build it. But it doesn't matter who it is. Alright, the third one is if you don't want to give too much information about who did the action, for example, mistakes were made. Somebody made mistakes but I don't want to name a specific person because maybe they will get in trouble, or I will get in trouble, or they will be mad at me. Another situation to use the passive voice is for a general truth. For example, rules were made to be broken. The next case to use the passive voice is to emphasize the thing that was acted upon, not the person who did the action. So for example; insulin was discovered in 1921. So maybe you're writing a research paper about insulin, but the paper is not about the person who invented it. That's a small part of it, but you're talking about insulin. So in this case, you could use the passive voice. The final situation to use the passive voice is for scientific papers or lab reports. So, for example, the salt was dissolved. So, it doesn't matter who dissolved the salt. If you're talking in a scientific paper only that the salt was dissolved by somebody. Timestamp for Teaching the Passive Voice: 0:00 Intro 0:11 How not to use the passive voice, and 5 examples of when to use it 0:27 Example 1: If you don't know who did the action 0:45 Example 2: It doesn't matter who did the action 0:59 Example 3: If you don't want to give too much information 1:20 Example 4: A general truth 1:28 Example 5: To emphasize the thing that was acted upon 1:55 Example 6: For scientific papers or lab reports 2:19 Outro Tags: Teaching the Passive Voice to English Learners, Passive Voice, esl teaching tips, esl grammar tips, how to teach esl grammar, passive voice lesson plan, passive voice, teaching the passive voice, grammar points, how to teach English to kids, how to teach english, how to teach english grammar, how to teach english to adults, how to english, how to teach esl easy, how to teach esl step by step, step by step teaching, passive voice learning, how to learn passive voice,