• 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. By next June, she ___ (finish) school. (will have finished / has finished / finishes / had finished) → will have finishedPrompt: Is the action finished before a past time, before now, or before a future time?
2. Choose the correct perfect tense. Mia was tired because she ___ (run) all the way. (will have run / has run / had run / runs) → had runPrompt: Is the action finished before a past time, before now, or before a future time?
3. Choose the correct perfect tense. By tonight, I ___ (read) the whole book. (have read / will have read / had read / am reading) → will have readPrompt: 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 dog chased the cat. • The cat chased the dog. • The cat is chasing by the dog. • The cat was chased by the dog. • The dog was chased by the cat. (The cat chased the dog. / The cat is chasing by the dog. / The cat was chased by the dog. / The dog was chased by the cat.) → The cat was chased by the dog.Prompt: In a passive sentence, the thing the action is done TO becomes the subject.
2. Is this sentence active or passive? The prize was won by a girl from Leeds. (active / passive) → passivePrompt: 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 8 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? The prize was won by a girl from Leeds. (active / passive) → passivePrompt: Who or what is the subject? Is the subject DOING the action or RECEIVING it?
2. Choose the best answer. Which sentence hides who made the mistake? (Leo's accounts had his mistake. / The accounts were wrong because of Leo. / A mistake was made in the accounts. / Leo made a mistake in the accounts.) → A mistake was made in the accounts.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.