Age: 9-10 years

Duration: 60 min

Objectives

• Distinguish active and passive sentences and identify be + past participle pattern.
• Rewrite selected sentences both ways and discuss meaning focus shift.
• Recognize passive in short science texts and explain when passive is useful.

Vocab

• is made / was built / by: "Honey is made by bees." / "The barn was built by..."
• passive / active: "Active: Bees make honey. Passive: Honey is made by bees."

Warm-up (5min)

Action demo — "The farmer feeds the animals" (active) vs "The animals are fed by the farmer" (passive) — who is the focus?

Main Activity (45min): "Passive Voice Introduction"

"Active ↔ Passive Lab" — Pattern hunt: highlight am/is/are/was/were + past participle in 10 science sentences about farms, weather, products. Sort: active vs passive columns with by-phrase when present. Rewrite drill: 8 sentences — active to passive and reverse; pairs compare focus change. When passive? discuss — science reports, unknown actor, formal tone (light). Connect research topic: three passive facts from article ("Paper is recycled..." ). Mixed quiz: 10 items identify or transform. Writing: 4-sentence mini report on class topic using 2 passive sentences intentionally. Error clinic: *is make → is made.

Wrap-up (5min)

Exit: transform one sentence from active to passive aloud.

Teacher Tips

• Intro only — G6 revisits passive intermediate; keep by-phrases visible at G4.
• Students may overuse passive — note