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In active sentences, the thing doing the action is the subject of the sentence and the thing receiving the action is the object. Most sentences are active.
[Thing doing action] + [verb] + [thing receiving action]
Examples:
In passive sentences, the thing receiving the action is the subject of the sentence and the thing doing the action is optionally included near the end of the sentence. You can use the passive form if you think that the thing receiving the action is more important or should be emphasized. You can also use the passive form if you do not know who is doing the action or if you do not want to mention who is doing the action.
When rewriting active sentences in passive voice, note the following:
[Thing receiving action] + [be] + [past participle of verb] + [by] + [thing doing action]
Examples:
| Active | Passive | |
| Simple Present | Once a week, Tom cleans the house. | Once a week, the house is cleaned by Tom. |
| Present Continuous | Right now, Sarah is writing the letter. | Right now, the letter is being written by Sarah. |
| Simple Past | Sam repaired the car. | The car was repaired by Sam. |
| Past Continuous | The salesman was helping the customer when the thief came into the store. | The customer was being helped by the salesman when the thief came into the store. |
| Present Perfect | Many tourists have visited that castle. | That castle has been visited by many tourists. |
| Present Perfect Continuous | Recently, John has been doing the work. | Recently, the work has been being done by John. |
| Past Perfect | George had repaired many cars before he received his mechanic’s license. | Many cars had been repaired by George before he received his mechanic’s license. |
| Past Perfect Continuous | Chef Jones had been preparing the restaurant’s fantastic dinners for two years before he moved to Paris. | The restaurant’s fantastic dinners had been being prepared by Chef Jones for two years before he moved to Paris. |
| Simple Future will | Someone will finish the work by 5:00 PM. | The work will be finished by 5:00 PM. |
| Simple Future be going to | Sally is going to make a beautiful dinner tonight. | A beautiful dinner is going to be made by Sally tonight. |
| Future Continuous will | At 8:00 PM tonight, John will be washing the dishes. | At 8:00 PM tonight, the dishes will be being washed by John. |
| Future Continuous be going to | At 8:00 PM tonight, John is going to be washing the dishes. | At 8:00 PM tonight, the dishes are going to be being washed by John. |
| Future Perfect will | They will have completed the project before the deadline. | The project will have been completed before the deadline. |
| Future Perfect be going to | They are going to have completed the project before the deadline. | The project is going to have been completed before the deadline. |
| Future Perfect Continuous will | The famous artist will have been painting the mural for over six months by the time it is finished. | The mural will have been being painted by the famous artist for over six months by the time it is finished. |
| Future Perfect Continuous be going to | The famous artist is going to have been painting the mural for over six months by the time it is finished. | The mural is going to have been being painted by the famous artist for over six months by the time it is finished. |
| Used to | Jerry used to pay the bills. | The bills used to be paid by Jerry. |
| Would Always | My mother would always make the pies. | The pies would always be made by my mother. |
| Future in the Past Would | I knew John would finish the work by 5:00 PM. | I knew the work would be finished by 5:00 PM. |
| Future in the Past Was Going to | I thought Sally was going to make a beautiful dinner tonight. | I thought a beautiful dinner was going to be made by Sally tonight. |
1. What is a discovery?
2. What is an invention?
3. Name 2 discoveries and their discoverers.
4. Name 2 inventions and their inventors.
5. Is a car a discovery or an invention? Who did it?
6. Is a mobile phone a discovery or an invention? Who did it?
7. Is an electricity a discovery or an invention? Who did it?
8. Is chocolate a discovery or an invention? Who did it?
9. What do discoveries and inventions do for people?
10. In what way are inventions important for our health?
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El Día Escolar de la No-violencia y la Paz (DENIP) fue declarado por primera vez en 1964. Surge de una iniciativa pionera, no gubernamental, independiente, y voluntaria de Educación No-violenta y Pacificadora del profesor español Llorenç Vidal. Su objetivo es la educación en y para la tolerancia, la solidaridad, la concordia, el respeto a los Derechos Humanos, la no-violencia y la paz. En este día, los colegios y centros se convierten en instrumentos de paz y entendimiento entre personas de distinta formación, raza, cultura y religión.
El mensaje básico de este día es: ’Amor universal, No-violencia y Paz. El Amor universal es mejor que el egoísmo, la No-violencia es mejor que la violencia y la Paz es mejor que la guerra’.
El DENIP fue reconocido por el Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, mediante la Orden Ministerial del 29 de noviembre de 1976.
El día 30 de Enero se conmemora además la muerte del líder nacional y espiritual de la India, el Mahatma Gandhi, el 30 de Enero de 1948, asesinado a tiros por un fanático hinduista.
Gandhi nació en Porbandar, India, en 1869, y tras graduarse en derecho en Inglaterra, se instaló en África del sur y luchó allí contra la discriminación de que eran objeto los indios. Al volver a la India organizó la resistencia no violenta (su filosofía, de base religiosa, tenía por principio fundamental la no violencia) contra el colonialismo y la no cooperación con la administración inglesa. Trató de frenar los choques entre hindúes y musulmanes que se produjeron tras la independencia en agosto de 1947 (los colonialistas británicos impusieron como condición para retirar sus tropas, la división de la India en dos estados, India y Pakistán, uno hindú y otro musulmán). Encarcelado en numerosas ocasiones, era en 1937 el líder de un movimiento independentista capaz de movilizar o detener a millones de indios.
| Machines are tools that help us do our work. Machines make our jobs easier and faster. What comes to your mind when you think of a machine? Washing machine, sewing machine, dish washer, vacuum cleaner, and lawn mower? Yes these are all machines. They are complex machines made up of many parts. But there are also simpler machines. We have been using them for a long time. Look around your surroundings carefully. Knives, scissors, hammers, screw drivers, nut crackers, wheels, etc. are all simple machines. You will find examples of simple machines everywhere. Complex machines are made up of a combination of these simple machines. There are mainly five different types of simple machines. 1)Lever 2) Inclined plane 3) Screw 4)Wheel and Axle 5) Pulleys Let us look at each one of them one by one. | ||
| Lever - With the help of a lever you can lift a heavy weight with much less effort. A lever consists of a rod, which balances on a fixed point. The heavy object that has to be moved or lifted is called the “Load” Depending on the position of the effort, load and fulcrum, the levers are grouped into three different types. First class levers- The fulcrum is placed between the effort and the load. | ||
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Second class levers- The fulcrum is placed on one end of the rod. Effort is applied on the other end and load is in between. Third class levers- The fulcrum is at one end, the load is at the other and effort is applied in the middle. | ||
 Inclined Plane: Any flat surface can be called a plane. A table top, surface of a book, sheet of paper, plank of wood etc. are all planes. If you tilt and hold them at an angle they become Inclined Planes. This doesn’t look like a machine at all, does it?
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| Try this: Take a marble and put it on a flat surface. Then push it from one end of the surface to another. Though it is easy to push, it does require some effort. Now incline the surface and put the marble on top. What do you see? Use some other objects to try the same experiment. |
| Thus, an inclined plane can be defined as a tool that helps us move heavy objects from a high place to low place and low place to high place. Inclined planes also move things quickly. Trucks are often loaded and unloaded with the help of inclined planes. Wheel chairs can be easily pushed up and down the inclined planes (ramps in buildings and hospitals). Roofs of houses are made to be inclined planes, so rain water will run off quickly and not leak in the house.
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Screw: A screw is a pointed nail with grooves in it. This thread of grooves is actually an inclined plane.  |
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Try this: When you travel you fill your suitcases. Lift a fully loaded suitcase. Try carrying the suitcase around. Your hand starts hurting after a while. Try dragging it around. It would be very difficult and inconvenient. Now put some wheels under it. Put it on a trolley or wagon and pull it around. |
Wheels and axles are used to carry loads around easily, for long distances with very less effort. When wagon wheels are mounted on axles, at the center of the wheel is a bearing which turns on the axle. The inside surface of the bearing is made smooth to make the turning of the wheel around the axle easy with very little friction. Not only that, the bearing is also oiled (lubricated) to make it slippery. This reduces the friction even more and the wheel can turn faster. It is hard to imagine our life without wheels and axles. If we look around us we can see them every where. Most complex machines have wheels in them to turn other parts. For example : Clocks, Mixers and Grinders, Vacuum cleaners, sewing machines, fans etc. Machines like cars, trucks, trains etc move on the wheels and axles. | ||
Try this: Hold one end of a rope in your hand and throw other end down from a height. Tie a heavy load to the other end and try pulling it up by pulling the rope. It will take a lot of effort to pull the load up. But if the rope is passed through a pulley, it would be easier to lift the load. A pulley makes our work easy by changing the direction of the force applied. Instead of pulling the load up you are now pulling the rope downwards. It is always easy to pull down than to pull up. Such simple pulleys (one wheel and rope) have been used for a long time to pull water from the wells, hoist a flag or on construction sites. Such pulleys are used in factories, construction site, docks, and wherever there is a need to lift .
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The present perfect tense is common in English. It is used for many different functions. This page will explain the rules for forming the tense with regular and irregular verbs.
This tense is formed using two components: the verb HAVE (in the present tense), and the past participle form of a verb. With a regular verb the past participle ends with -ED (just like the simple past). Irregular verbs have a special past participle form that you have to learn. Here are the rules, using the regular verb “arrive” and the irregular verb “eat”:
| Subject | HAVE | Past Participle |
|---|---|---|
| I | have | arrived eaten |
| You | have | arrived eaten |
| He | has | arrived eaten |
| She | has | arrived eaten |
| It | has | arrived eaten |
| We | have | arrived eaten |
| They | have | arrived eaten |
Note that the subject and auxiliary verb may be contracted: for example, “I have” becomes “I’ve” and “She has” becomes “She’s”.
With regular verbs, the past participle is the same as the simple past. You can form it by adding -ED to the end of the verb. (See Simple Past: Regular Verbs for more information on this.) However, with some verbs, you need to add -EN or change the verb itself. There are no real rules for this; you just need to learn the verbs which are irregular. Sometimes the past participle is the same as the simple past, and sometimes it isn’t. Here are four main categories of verbs with examples. Please note that there are many different ways to form past participles; this is just a small sample.
| Category | Present | Simple Past | Past Participle |
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| Verbs which don’t change | cut hit fit | cut hit fit | cut hit fit |
| Verbs which change their vowel | sit drink dig | sat drank dug | sat drunk dug |
| Verbs which change their vowel and add -EN | break eat take | broke ate took | broken eaten taken |
| Verbs which change completely | catch bring teach | caught brought taught | caught brought taught |
When you are sure that you understand the lesson, you can continue with the exercises.
[has/have + been + present participle]
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We use the Present Perfect Continuous to show that something started in the past and has continued up until now. "For five minutes," "for two weeks," and "since Tuesday" are all durations which can be used with the Present Perfect Continuous.
Examples:
You can also use the Present Perfect Continuous WITHOUT a duration such as "for two weeks." Without the duration, the tense has a more general meaning of "lately." We often use the words "lately" or "recently" to emphasize this meaning.
Examples:
Remember that the Present Perfect Continuous has the meaning of "lately" or "recently." If you use the Present Perfect Continuous in a question such as "Have you been feeling alright?", it can suggest that the person looks sick or unhealthy. Using this tense in a question suggests you can see, smell, hear or feel the results of the action. It is possible to insult someone by using this tense incorrectly.
It is important to remember that Non-Continuous Verbs cannot be used in any continuous tenses. Also, certain non-continuous meanings for Mixed Verbs cannot be used in continuous tenses. Instead of using Present Perfect Continuous with these verbs, you must use Present Perfect.
Examples:
The examples below show the placement for grammar adverbs such as: always, only, never, ever, still, just, etc.
Examples:
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New Year’s Day, or January 1, is the first day of the year and is an occasion that witnesses the biggest annual celebration across all countries of the world. It is the time when we ring out the old year and welcome the present year with open arms, with eyes filled with new dreams and hearts replete with new expectations. With another year approaching soon, it’s time again to gear up for New Year celebrations.
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How is Christmas going??
During these holidays you should have lots of fun, relax and spend as much time as possible with your family,
...and you should also do pages 50 to 57 of your Mega English, and read the book I lent you.
On Wednesday and Thursday we had our first Spelling Bee this school year.
This term participants were: Pablo Luis, Sergio B., Paula, Lydia, Cristina and Sofía, from 6ºA; Victor, César, Daniel, Javier and Lucía, from 6ºB; Jorge, Eva P., Álvaro, Rodrigo and Isaac, from 6ªC; and Juan José, Lucía, Luisa, Cristiana and Alejandra, from 6ºD.
We all spent a good time during the contest and discovered how difficult it is to spell words such as arrangement and empire.
At the end our winner was Eva Pedrera Elvira (who was also the winner in the first Spelling Bee last December), followed by Pablo Luis de Pablo Carrión and César Lucio Cifuentes.
CONGRATULATIONS to the three winners and all the participants!!!
YOU’RE GREAT!!!
Steep and winding mountain roads, highway ramps, slides on the playground, are all inclined planes. 
Even ancient Egyptians had used inclined planes, to lift heavy stones while building pyramids. 
With the help of a marker or crayon color the inclined edge of the triangle. Take a pencil. Then wrap this triangular piece of paper (starting from the broad end and going towards the pointed end) around the pencil. 
The inclined edge will now look like grooves in a screw.
How is a screw a simple machine? It makes our job easy and more efficient. If a nail has to be hammered into wood it needs a lot of force. A screw has a groove on its head for a screw driver. 
If a screw is held against a piece of wood, and its head is turned around with the help of a screw driver, it easily moves inside the wood because of its inclined edge. 
in the center it is called an “axle”. 
