News & The Passive Voice
This ESL lesson plan helps students master grammar, reading, and writing through real-world news report analysis. Learners explore the passive voice, identify its usage in articles, and complete structured exercises. Activities include rewriting sentences, forming correct passive constructions, and crafting their own news reports. Ideal for B2-level teens and adults.
Skills
- Good grammatical control; occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws in sentence structure may still occur, but they are rare and can often be corrected in retrospect.
- Can give clear, detailed descriptions of real or imaginary events and experiences marking the relationship between ideas in clear connected text, and following established conventions of the genre concerned.
- Can understand articles and reports concerned with contemporary problems in which particular stances or viewpoints are adopted.
