Стр.85 Unit 10 ГДЗ Вербицкая Forward 8 класс
- Look at the underlined verbs in sentences 1–3 in Exercise 3 and complete the rules with the words below.
Am/is/are; has been/have been; was/wereWe form:
the Present Simple Passive with ______ and the Past Participle.
The Past Simple Passive with ______ and the Past Participle.
The Present Perfect Passive with ______ and the Past Participle. - Find more examples of the Passive in the quiz. What tense are they?
- In pairs, complete extracts a–f with the correct passive form of the verbs in brackets. Then match them with the newspaper sections below.
Gossip column; readers’ letters; science; TV guide; international news; sportsa) In your article you say that every year hundreds of cyclists 1 ______ by drivers. How many car drivers 2 ______ by bicycles last year?
b) The world 100 metres record 3 ______ for the second time this week!
c) A new planet 4 ______ in the constellation Aquarius. The planet 5 ______ by astronomers in California early last week.
d) Jimmy Deep stars in this comedy. Deep 6 ______ to play comic roles very often, but he is really funny.
e) Glamour couple Chrissie Butros and Spike Dare 7 ______ everywhere they go. It’s part of their daily life. But you’ve never seen photos like these ones!
f) More than 2,500 people 8 ______ in an earthquake in Iran. The earthquake measured 6.7 on the Richter scale.
- In pairs, look at the words and phrases in Exercise 6 and answer the questions.
Which section of a newspaper do you read first?
Which sections do you never read?
Why? - Complete each sentence using the Passive so that it means the same as the sentence above it.
- In the early 1960s people proposed the idea of computer networks.
- In 1965 somebody connected two computers by telephone across the USA.
- Ray Tomlinson invented email in 1972.
- We don’t know the exact number of websites.
- Search engines have counted at least eight billion web pages.
- Today over a billion people use the Internet.
4) We form:
the Present Simple Passive with am/is/are and the Past Participle.
the Past Simple Passive with was/were and the Past Participle.
the Present Perfect Passive with has been/have been and the Past Participle.
6)
- a readers’ letters
- b sports
- c science
- d TV guide
- e gossip column
- f international news
8)
- In the early 1960s the idea of computer networks was proposed.
- In 1965 two computers were connected by telephone across the USA.
- Email was invented by Ray Tomlinson in 1972.
- The exact number of websites is unknown.
- At least eight billion web pages have been counted by search engines.
- Today the Internet is used by over a billion people.
Разбор: в пассивном залоге используется нужная форма глагола to be и Past Participle. В предложениях 1–3 и 8 формы выбраны по времени: was/were для Past Simple, is для Present Simple, have been для Present Perfect.








