Here is the Unit 12 end of unit test!

Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Remember, we have an online Zoom meeting tomorrow (Wednesday, 4/22/20) at 10:00 a.m. Use the same link and meeting information I already texted you. If you have problems connecting tomorrow, please call or text me at 309-948-9615. We will discuss Monday’s homework assignment from Unit 8, Staying Healthy, and also the Burlington English assignment on gerunds. See the post from yesterday (Monday, 4/20/20) for instructions, if you haven’t done this work yet.

Unit 12 Test Instructions

• Use a piece of notebook paper to make an answer sheet.
• Put your name in the upper right corner of the answer sheet.
• Put the title Unit 12 Test on the top line, and number the paper 7 to 33* (see an example below).
• Print the letter of the correct answer  (A, B, C, or D) beside each number. Write clearly.
• Send me your answers by next Monday, 4/27/20. You can send a picture of your completed answer sheet by text or email, or you can copy your answers into an email (not a text) and send them to me.

* I left out questions 1 to 6 because they required listening to recorded conversations, which is hard to do in this situation.

This test has seven pages, but each page has only a few questions. You may use your textbook to help you as you answer the questions. Below is a guide to what each page of the test covers. I have listed pages in the textbook that cover the same material, to help you as you take the test.







UNIT 12 TEST GUIDE--with Future English 3 Textbook review pages

TEST PAGE	QUESTIONS	SUBJECT	TEXTBOOK PAGES
pages 80 and 81	7 to 10	Read a subway map	pp. 232-233
page   82	11 to 15	Superlative adjectives	pp. 230-231
page   83	16 to 20	Present passive verbs	pp. 236-237
page   84	21 to 25	Past passive verbs	p.   242
page   85	26 to 29	Vocabulary—places in Washington, DC	pp. 226-227
page   86	30 to 33	Reading skills—George Washington	None

Below are the seven pages (pp. 80-86) of the test. Write the answers on the answer sheet you made (see above instructions). Take your time, and do well!

Watch Tara the Cat Rescue Child from Dog Attack! Write Sentences!

Click on the link below and watch the news story: Tara the Cat Saves 4-Year-Old Boy

LINK: Tara the Cat Saves 4-Year-Old Boy

My suggestion: Write sentences about what happens in the video in past tense (active voice). Your sentences should have the subject-verb-direct object pattern. Then change the sentences you wrote into past tense, passive voice. For example:

The boy rode the tricycle. (active)

The tricycle was ridden by the boy. (passive)

Here are some nouns and verbs you might use in your sentences (in no special order)

NOUNS                    VERBS

cat                               run

dog                              chase

tricycle                        bite

car                               save

mother                        drag

camera                        film

attack                          attack

This is a screen capture (picture) of the video--click the link above to watch it.

Quiz on Past Passive

Click the link below and try this quiz from learningamericanenglishonline.com (see Favorite Links to go to the main website). You will practice the past tense, passive voice. After you try the quiz (I have printed copies for you), click the link at the bottom of the page and check your answers.

LINK: Green Level Quiz #2--Passive Voice, Past

When to Use the Passive Voice

Below is an explanation of when to use the passive voice in writing. It is adapted from a post at www.grammarly.com. If you want to read the original, click on the link at the end of this post. Otherwise, you can read my lightly edited version right now:

When to use the passive voice

There are times when the passive voice does a better job of presenting an idea, especially in certain formal, professional, and legal discussions. Here are three common uses of the passive voice: 

1 Reports of crimes or incidents with unknown perpetrators

     My car was stolen yesterday.

If you knew who stole the car, it probably wouldn’t be as big a problem. The passive voice emphasizes the stolen item and the action of theft. 

2 Scientific contexts

     The rat was placed into a T-shaped maze.

Who places the rat into the maze? Scientists, duh. But that’s less important than the experiment they’re conducting. Therefore, passive voice is used.

 3 When you want to emphasize an action itself and the doer of        the action is not as important:

     The president was sworn in on a cold January morning.

How many people can remember off the top of their heads who swears in presidents? Clearly the occasion of swearing in the commander in chief is the thing to emphasize here. In each of the above contexts, the action itself—or the person or thing receiving the action—is the part that matters. That means the performer of the action can appear in a prepositional phrase or be absent from the sentence altogether.

 Adapted from:

LINK: Writing in the Passive Voice at Grammarly.com