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Design a lesson unit for a class coursebook following the Grammar Translation
Method principles. The age and level of the students is up to you.
Lesson Unit Grammar Translation Method
Amounts of lessons: 3x45 minutes
Age of students: 16 years old
Level of students: Upper-intermediate
Aims of the unit:
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to present and practise passive voice

to enable students to translate active and passive sentences from the target to their
mother tongue
to practise reading skills

Objectives of the unit after the unit Ss will be able to:

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translate texts containing passive voice structures

recognise passive and active forms

Lesson 1:
Task 1. Look at the pictures below. What are they made from? Talk in pairs.
(The aim is to check if Ss know passive voice pattern. If not T is obliged to present this
grammar through deductive approach from general to specific. Ss should be familiar with all
structures.)

Task 2. Look at the table and provide active or passive form.

Present Simple
Present Continuous.
Past Simple
Past Continuous
Present Perfect
Past Perfect
Future Perfect

He writes a book.

Future Simple
Future Continuous
Modals

He will write a book.

A book is being written.

He wrote a book yesterday.
A book was being written.
He has written a book.
He had written a book.
A book will have been written by
tomorrow.
A book will be being written.
He can write a book.

Task 3. Translate each of the sentences above into your target language.
Lesson 2:
Task 1. Read the text and underline active and passive forms.
The Statue of Liberty was given to the United States by France. It was a present on the 100th
anniversary of the United States. The Statue of Liberty was designed by Frederic Auguste
Bartholdi. It was completed in France in July 1884. In 350 pieces, the statue then was shipped to
New York, where it arrived on 17 June 1885. The pieces were put together and the opening
ceremony took place on 28 October 1886. The Statue of Liberty is 46 m high (93 m including the
base). The statue represents the goddess of liberty. She holds a torch in her right hand and a
tablet in her left hand. On the tablet you can see the date of the Declaration of Independence
(July 4, 1776). Every year, the Statue of Liberty is visited by many people from all over the
world.
Task 2. Work in pairs and translate the text above into your mother tongue. Use dictionary
whenever needed.
Lesson 3:
Task 1. Look at the proverbs and underline passive voice form. Try and translate them to your
own language. If dictionary is needed, feel free to use it.

1. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

2. A man is known by the company he keeps.
3. A fox is not taken twice in the same snare.
4. Old birds are not caught with chaff.
5. Never ask pardon before you are accused.
6. A liar is not believed when he tells the truth.
7. Advice when most needed is least heeded.
8. Marriages are made in heaven.
9. A threatened blow is seldom given.
10. Danger foreseen is half avoided.
11. Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape.
12. What is done cannot be undone.
13. Rome was not built in a day.
14. Fingers were made before forks.
15. Acorns were good till bread was found.
Task 2. Is it possible to transfer proverbs above to active form? Try to do that in English and
your mother tongue. Are there any differences?

Sources:
Lesson 3, task 1: http://englishstandarts.blogspot.com/2012/06/passive-voice-texts-proverbsand.html
Lesson 2, task 1: http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/passive/exercises?text01
Pictures: Google