Passive voice: hippopotamus
Whiteboard Challenges
Challenge 1
Rewrite the first sentence using the passive voice so that the receiver of the action (Molly) appears at the beginning of the sentence.
Challenge 2
Finish off the second sentence in the active voice, then rewrite it using the passive voice so that the receiver of the action appears at the beginning of the sentence.
Challenge 3
Using some of the words from the Word Wall, write your own scintillating sentence about the hippos featured in the film clip which is in the active voice. Once you have done this, rewrite it so that it is in the passive voice.
Whiteboard Challenges
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1) Petranell has hand-reared baby Molly since she first arrived at the sanctuary.
2) The presenter, …
Word Wall
hippopotamus
orphaned
sanctuary
surrogate mum
vulnerable
fearsome
scars
attacked
vegetable smoothie
rescued
defenseless
soothing moisturiser
rehabilitation
bond
emerged
inseparable
wallowed
rubbed
slurped