tenth grado

second semestre 2014

write the following text in your notebook and solve it using passive voice

first activity

Put the verbs in brackets into passive or active voice

1.     William Shakespeare ______________ (baptize) on 26^th April 1564.  He was an English poet and playwright who _____________ (regard) as the greatest writer in the English language.  He _______________ (often/call) England’s national poet.  His surviving works ____________ (consist) of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems and several other poems.  His plays ______________ (translate) into every major living language and _______________ (perform) more often than those of any other playwright.

                 

Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon.  At the age of 18 he ___________ (marry) Anne Hathaway and they _______ (have) three children: Susanna, Hamnet and Judith who ______ (be) twins.  Between 1585 and 1592, he __________ (begin) a successful career in London as an actor, writer and part owner of a playing company which ____________ (call) the Lord Chamberlain’s Men and which _________________ (later/know) as the King’s Men.  He ____________ (retire) to Stratford around 1613 where he ____________ (die) three years later.

2.     “Jack the Ripper” is the name which ______________ (give) to an unidentified serial killer who was active in the largely impoverished areas in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888.  The name _______________ (originate) in a letter which ______________ (write) by someone claiming to be the murderer.  The letter ____________ (believe) to be a hoax and may ___________ (write) by a journalist in an attempt to heighten interest in the story.  The “Ripper” __________ (attack) female prostitutes from the slums whose throats ___________ (cut) prior to abdominal mutilations.  Rumours that the murders _____________ (connect) intensified in September and October 1888 and letters from people purporting to be the murderer _____________ (receive) by media outlets and Scotland Yard.  There are now over one hundred theories about the Ripper’s identity and the murders ______________ (inspire) multiple works of fiction.

3.     John Lennon was born on the 9^th October 1940.  He _____ (be) an English musician and singer-songwriter who __________ (rise)  to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles.  With Paul McCartney he __________ (form) one of the most successful songwriting partnerships of the 20^th century.  John Lennon was born and raised in Liverpool and he ___________ (become) involved as a teenager in the Skiffle Craze; his first band.  The group “The Beatles” _____________ (create) in 1960.  Towards the end of the decade Lennon ____________ (embark) on a solo career and then in 1975 ______________ disengage) himself from the music business to devote time to his family, but _____________ (come) back in 1980 with a new album.  He _______________ (murder) three weeks after its release.