Active and Passive Voice Adventure
An interactive Jeopardy-style game for young ESL learners exploring active and passive voice through familiar topics like school, animals, and daily activities. Teams compete to identify voice types, transform sentences, and discuss real-life examples.
A free Jeopardy Quiz for Young learners at CEFR A2 level. Topic: Passive and active voice .
Categories
- Who Does the Action?
- What Happens to Things?
- School and Classroom
- Animals and Nature
- My Life and Choices
Questions
- Who Does the Action? (100): Is this sentence active or passive? 'The teacher writes on the board.'
- Who Does the Action? (200): Look at this sentence: 'The dog ate the food.' Who is doing the action, and is it active or passive?
- Who Does the Action? (300): Is the sentence 'The letter was written by Sarah' active or passive? Explain why.
- Who Does the Action? (400): Compare these two sentences: 'Maria painted the picture' and 'The picture was painted by Maria.' Which one is active, and why do you think active voice is clearer?
- Who Does the Action? (500): Tell me about something you did yesterday using active voice. Then explain why active voice helps your listener understand better.
- What Happens to Things? (100): Is this sentence active or passive? 'The cake was eaten by the children.'
- What Happens to Things? (200): Look at this sentence: 'The house was built by workers.' What is happening to the house, and is it passive or active?
- What Happens to Things? (300): Change this active sentence to passive: 'The cook made delicious soup.' What does the passive sentence look like?
- What Happens to Things? (400): Read this passive sentence: 'The homework was done by the students.' Rewrite it in active voice and explain which version is better for a teacher to use.
- What Happens to Things? (500): Describe something that happened to you at school using passive voice. Then explain when passive voice might be useful even though active is usually clearer.
- School and Classroom (100): Is this sentence active or passive? 'The teacher gave homework to the class.'
- School and Classroom (200): Look at this sentence: 'The test was passed by most students.' Who did the action? Is it active or passive?
- School and Classroom (300): Change this to passive voice: 'The teacher wrote the lesson on the board.' What is the new sentence?
- School and Classroom (400): Your teacher said, 'The answers were marked by me last night.' Change this to active voice and explain why teachers might prefer to say it that way.
- School and Classroom (500): Tell me about something that was done in your classroom today using passive voice, then explain whether active or passive voice would be better for a school report.
- Animals and Nature (100): Is this sentence active or passive? 'The bird built a nest.'
- Animals and Nature (200): Look at this sentence: 'The tree was planted by the farmer.' Who did the action, and is it passive or active?
- Animals and Nature (300): Change this to passive voice: 'The cat caught the mouse.' What is the new sentence?
- Animals and Nature (400): A scientist says, 'The animals were studied by our team for two years.' Rewrite this in active voice and explain why scientists might use passive voice in their reports.
- Animals and Nature (500): Describe a pet or animal you know using both active and passive voice sentences. Which version tells us more about what the animal does?
- My Life and Choices (100): Is this sentence about you active or passive? 'I made my breakfast this morning.'
- My Life and Choices (200): Look at this sentence about yourself: 'My homework was done by me yesterday.' Is it active or passive? Can you say it better?
- My Life and Choices (300): Tell me one thing you did last week in an active voice sentence. Now change it to passive voice.
- My Life and Choices (400): Compare how you would tell your friend about your weekend using active voice versus how you would write it in passive voice. Which feels more natural to you, and why?
- My Life and Choices (500): Describe something that happened to you that you couldn't control using passive voice. Then explain why passive voice works well for this situation.