IB English B TEXT TYPES SKILLS SUPPORT: Active and Passive LISTENING LESSON

TEXT TYPES SUPPORT LISTENING LESSON: Active and Passive Voice
(60 minutes)

This lesson supports the writing of the following text types: Proposals, Letters to the Editor, Official Report, Formal Email

Resources:

1. No-prep, ready-made SLIDESHOW
2. Student WORKBOOK
3. Student Workbook ANSWER KEY
4. Audio Tracks

Lesson Outcome:
By the end of this lesson, your students will have learned how to distinguish between active and passive voice and learned how to create passive sentences through listening, reading, speaking and writing activities.

Activities:

1. Activity 1: PRE-LISTENING TASK STARTER: to write 3 things they already know about active and passive voice. (1 minute)
2. Activity 2: LISTENING TASK: to identify 45 factual details about active and passive voice by listening to an audio lesson and answering exam-style listening comprehension questions. (25 minutes)
   (Please note: this is not a listening test; it does not have the same rigour and level of difficulty as a listening exam. Its purpose is to teach students about active and passive voice.)
3. Activity 3: ACTIVE VOICE PRACTICE: to create active voice sentences by reading task instructions and creating active sentences to use when speaking in groups of 4. (15 minutes)
4. Activity 4: PASSIVE VOICE PRACTICE: to practise creating passive voice structures by working in pairs. (15 minutes)
5. PLENARY: to add 5 things they have learned to their starter page. (4 minutes)
6. HOMEWORK: To complete two active and passive voice writing tasks.

Apart from the need to print workbooks and a few bits of admin, this lesson is NO-PREP, INSTANTLY-USABLE.
(You just need to run through the slideshow to familiarise yourself with the lesson elements.)