Reporting Passives - Grammar Practice
A B2 lesson on reporting passives, with contextual examples, grammar guidance, controlled practice and space for written answers. Includes an answer key and teacher notes.
What’s in the worksheet?
- Contextual examples and grammar guidance
- Choose, complete and rewrite activities
- Space for written answers
- Answer key and teacher notes on page 3
Report claims with impersonal and personal passive patterns.
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A simple way to teach it
Before the lesson
Use learner pages 1–2; keep the answer key on page 3 separate until feedback.
- Read the cinema rumour and distinguish the present repairs from the earlier funding application.
- Complete the reporting passives and infinitives, then transform shop, plan, living-abroad and departure claims.
- Write fictional claims with both patterns and question a partner's imagined news sources.
Support and extension
Use to have plus participle for an earlier event, not as a simple substitute for every past tense. Reported or believed information is not automatically confirmed fact.
Suggested approach. Adjust the pace and number of questions to suit your class.
