• Quick retrieval from earlier learning (Perfect tenses (past, present, future)). Students answer on mini whiteboards.
• Show answers together and note who needs support in the main task.

1. Choose the correct perfect tense. We ___ (visit) the museum twice this year. (had visited / will have visited / have visited / visiting) → have visitedPrompt: Is the action finished before a past time, before now, or before a future time?
2. Choose the correct perfect tense. By next June, she ___ (finish) school. (finishes / had finished / has finished / will have finished) → will have finishedPrompt: Is the action finished before a past time, before now, or before a future time?
3. Choose the correct perfect tense. I ___ (live) here for six years. (am living / have lived / had lived / will have lived) → have livedPrompt: Is the action finished before a past time, before now, or before a future time?

• Show a sentence with the grammar point used wrongly and ask what sounds odd.
• Share the objective: Active and passive voice. Read the success criteria together.

• Work through the example out loud, saying why you do each step, not just what you do.
• Example: Which sentence is the passive version of this sentence? The children have planted the trees. • The trees has been planted by the children. • The trees have planted the children. • The trees have been planted by the children. • The children have been planted by the trees.
• Step 1: Move the object to the front, use be + past participle in the same tense, and put the doer after 'by' (or leave it out).
• Step 2: So the answer is: The trees have been planted by the children.
• Answer: The trees have been planted by the children.
• Pause after each step and ask a student to say what comes next.

• Do these together. Students try each step on whiteboards before you reveal it.
• Use the hints as prompts rather than giving the answer.

1. Which sentence is the passive version of this sentence? The judges announced the winner. • The winner is announcing by the judges. • The winner was announced by the judges. • The judges were announced by the winner. • The winner announced the judges. (The winner is announcing by the judges. / The winner was announced by the judges. / The judges were announced by the winner. / The winner announced the judges.) → The winner was announced by the judges.Prompt: In a passive sentence, the thing the action is done TO becomes the subject.
2. Is this sentence active or passive? Scientists discovered a new species of beetle. (active / passive) → activePrompt: Who or what is the subject? Is the subject DOING the action or RECEIVING it?

• Students work on the student sheet. Circulate and check the first two answers of every student early.
• Students who finish: write a question of their own for a partner, with the answer.

The 6 questions are on the student sheet below, with answers in the key.

• Two questions on their own. Sort answers into got it / nearly / not yet to plan the next lesson.

1. Is this sentence active or passive? Volunteers cleaned the beach on Saturday. (active / passive) → activePrompt: Who or what is the subject? Is the subject DOING the action or RECEIVING it?
2. Choose the best answer. Which sentence puts the focus on the painting rather than on the painter? (The artist, in 1890, completed the painting. / The painting was completed in 1890. / The artist completed the painting in 1890. / In 1890 the artist completed it.) → The painting was completed in 1890.Prompt: The passive voice lets a writer leave out the doer or put the focus on what was affected.

Free online practice with hints and printable worksheets for this skill: eurekami.com/english/grade-6.