ESL Lesson PlansPassive Voice for Making Excuses

Passive Voice for Making Excuses

This ESL lesson plan focuses on practicing the passive voice through fun activities centered around making excuses. Targeted at B2-level learners, students will engage in discussions, sentence unscrambles, and role-playing exercises to create excuses using passive voice structures.

Skills

Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control. Does not make mistakes which lead to misunderstanding.

45 min B1 (Intermediate)B2 (Upper-Intermediate)Teens Group Audio Sentence Structure Grammar Speaking Passive Voice

Online Interactive

Based on CEFR

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Warm-up

Look at a student's email, and discuss the questions in pairs.

Hi Miss Johnson, I just wanted to let you know why I wasn't at school yesterday. First off, my alarm somehow got turned off, so I overslept. Then, when I was finally getting ready, my sandwich was stolen by my cat, so I didn’t have breakfast. To top it off, the road near my house was blocked due to some construction, which delayed me even more. Sorry for missing class! I'll make sure to catch up on anything I missed. Thanks, Lee

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Have you ever had a day where everything seemed to go wrong? What happened?

Are you often late? Do you often miss assignment deadlines?

Have you ever had to make up an excuse for being late or missing school?

Would you believe the excuses the learner made in the email?

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