Made to Measure: Describing Processes with the Passive Voice

Equip your students with the linguistic tools to describe complex systems and manufacturing with precision. “Made to Measure: Describing Processes with the Passive Voice” is a comprehensive Upper Intermediate (B2) resource designed to master the passive voice across all tenses while exploring fascinating industrial and natural production cycles. This lesson provides a professional framework for students to shift focus from “who” is doing the action to “what” is being produced.

This Multi-Skill Resource Includes:

• Reading & Vocabulary: An engaging article on the traditional and labor-intensive production of argan oil in Morocco, paired with comprehension tasks. Students master essential materials vocabulary—such as copper, steel, denim, and china—and 12 critical process verbs, including extract, purify, weld, and dismantle.
• Grammar Practice: A deep dive into the Passive Voice across eight structures, including Present/Past Simple, Continuous, Present/Future Perfect, and Modals. The lesson features rigorous Key Word Transformation exercises and active-to-passive rewriting tasks to ensure grammatical accuracy.
• Listening & Video: Interactive tasks based on the “How Chocolate is Made” video. Students practice sequencing manufacturing steps—from cutting cacao pods to tempering and wrapping—while identifying passive structures in an authentic context.
• Speaking: High-level discussion prompts that challenge students to describe the manufacturing of products from their own countries, discuss industrial changes in their companies, and predict which office tasks will be replaced by AI.
• Teacher Materials: A comprehensive Teacher’s Answer Key and versions tailored for both UK and USA English curricula.

Exclusive Premium Features:

• Interactive “Passive Battleships” Activity: A dynamic, competitive game designed to reinforce the formation of passive sentences using a variety of tenses and modals in a Business English context.

• “Truth or Myth?” Vocabulary Activity: A general knowledge pub quiz featuring 12 facts. Students use logic and their new vocabulary to determine if products like Tabasco sauce or Olympic medals are truly made or processed as described.

• Comprehensive Homework Pack: A three-page reinforcement set including material identification drills, process matching tasks, and a “Smartphone Lifecycle” cloze text that integrates both grammar and vocabulary.