1. Complete the sentences below with the present simple passive form of the verbs in brackets.

(Hoàn thành các câu dưới đây với dạng bị động hiện tại đơn của các động từ trong ngoặc.)

1   Millions of mobile phones _________________every year. (sell)

2   American football _________________very much in the UK. (not play)

3   _________________tablets _________________in your school? (use)

4   Most crimes _________________in big cities. (commit)

5   Rubber trees _________________in cold countries. (not grow)

6   _________________Samsung televisions _________________ in Korea? (make)

2. Make the active sentences passive. Include the word by.

(Làm cho câu chủ động thành bị động. Bao gồm từ ‘by’.)

1   Millions of people watched the 2014 World Cup Final on TV.

     The 2014 World Cup Final was watched by millions of people on TV.

2   Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin.

     __________________________________

3   Rafa Nadal didn’t win the watch.

     __________________________________

4   Robots made that car.

    __________________________________

5   Did Suzanne Collins write the Hunger Games books?

     __________________________________

6   Peter Jackson directed the Hobbit films.

     __________________________________

3. Put the words below in the correct order. (Remember where to put the adverb.)

(Đặt các từ dưới đây theo đúng thứ tự. (Hãy nhớ vị trí đặt trạng từ.))

1   satnavs. / are / Phones / used as / sometimes.

     ___________________________________

2   Was / Bob Dylan? / Make you feel my love / first / by / sung

     ___________________________________

3   invented / The wheel / about 5,000 years ago. / probably / was

     ___________________________________

4   quickly / was / The suspect / arrested.

     ___________________________________

5   the missing jewelry / ever / found? / Was

     ___________________________________

4. Complete the fact file below with the past simple passive form of the verbs in brackets.

(Hoàn thành tệp dữ kiện dưới đây với dạng bị động ở quá khứ đơn của các động từ trong ngoặc.)

COMPUTERS: a short history

  The first computer (1)__________________ (invent) by Charles Babbage in the early 19th century. It (2)__________________ (not power) by electricity – it was mechanical.

–  The first electronic digital computer (3)_________________ (build) in 1943 in Britain. It (4)__________________ (call) ‘Colossus’ and it (5)__________________ (use) for decoding enemy messages in the war.

–  Businesses began to use computers in the 1950s, but computers (6)__________________ (not sell) in shops until the early 1970s.

–  The first desktop computers (7)__________________ (develop) in the late 1970s.

–  Internet access via a modem (8)_________________ (add) in the 1990s, but wireless access (9)__________________ (not add) to most computers until about 2000.

–  For the first time, in 2015, more tablets and smartphones (10)__________________ (sell) than laptops and desktops. Will computers eventually disappear from our homes and schools?