Unit 12: Fashion forward
Active and passive voice
Select a unit
- 1 Pop-ups
- 2 Hidden talents
- 3 Can't buy me love
- 4 Travellers' tales
- 5 The colleague from hell
- 6 Jurassic mystery: unpacking the past
- 7 Career changes
- 8 Art
- 9 Project management
- 10 The dog ate my homework!
- 11 The diary of a double agent
- 12 Fashion forward
- 13 Flat pack skyscrapers
- 14 Extreme sports
- 15 Food fads
- 16 Me, my selfie and I
- 17 Endangered animals
- 18 A nip and a tuck: cosmetic surgery
- 19 I'm really sorry...
- 20 Telling stories
- 21 Fakes and phrasals
- 22 Looking to the future
- 23 Becoming familiar with things
- 24 From rags to riches
- 25 Against the odds
- 26 Our future on Mars?
- 27 Where is it illegal to get a fish drunk?
- 28 Dodgy dating
- 29 Annoying advice
- 30 I'll have been studying English for thirty weeks
Session 1
Eat, ate, eaten... Verbs in English don't always follow the -ed pattern, so we're focussing on irregular verbs in this session. Listen to 6 Minute Vocabulary, and then do some activities to show off your verb skills!
Activity 3
Holiday snaps
Do you know the correct form?
Let's do one more activity. In this one we'll test how well you know the different forms of these irregular verbs, by taking part in a conversation that has lots of examples of them.
Imagine you've just got back from a lovely holiday and you're telling your very patient friend all about it. You're looking through all the snaps (photographs) you took.
To do
Complete the conversation with the correct forms of these verbs. Do you need the infinitive, the past simple, or the past participle form? And which is which? If you really need to, have a look at the grammar area on this page.
Read the text and complete the activity
Complete the conversation
8 Questions
Fill the gaps by selecting the correct forms of these irregular verbs
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Activity
Fill the gaps by selecting the correct forms of these irregular verbs
Hint
You need the past simple form.Question 1 of 8
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Activity
Fill the gaps by selecting the correct forms of these irregular verbs
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You need the past participle.Question 2 of 8
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Fill the gaps by selecting the correct forms of these irregular verbs
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You need the past simple here.Question 3 of 8
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Fill the gaps by selecting the correct forms of these irregular verbs
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You need the past simple here.Question 4 of 8
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Fill the gaps by selecting the correct forms of these irregular verbs
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You need the past simple here.Question 5 of 8
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Fill the gaps by selecting the correct forms of these irregular verbs
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You need the past participle.Question 6 of 8
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Fill the gaps by selecting the correct forms of these irregular verbs
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You need the past simple tense.Question 7 of 8
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Fill the gaps by selecting the correct forms of these irregular verbs
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You need the past participle and the infinitive.Question 8 of 8
Excellent! Great job! Bad luck! You scored:
End of Session 1
Well done, you've reached the end of this session. Remember you are one of millions of people studying English. That's right, English is studied all around the world. Is studied is an example of the passive voice. You'll be learning all about it in the next session. Join us there!
Session Grammar
Irregular verbs with three forms:
break, broke, broken
choose, chose, chosen
ring, rang, rung
see, saw, seen
take, took, taken
write, wrote, writtenIrregular verbs with two forms:
find, found, found
have, had, had
lose, lost, lost
meet, met, met
say, said, said
tell, told, toldIrregular verbs with one form:
cut, cut, cut
let, let, let
put, put, put
read, read, read
shut, shut, shut