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Year 6 Active and Passive Voice practice
English · ages 10–11 · Grammar
Learning goal: I can choose active or passive voice and explain its effect.
- 1Identify
Active or passive: 'The dog chased the ball.'
- 2Identify
Active or passive: 'The ball was chased by the dog.'
- 3Change
Change to passive: 'The chef cooked the meal.'
- 4Change
Change to active: 'The window was broken by the storm.'
- 5Effect
Why might a writer use passive voice in a formal report?
- 6Choose
Which voice suits a science method: 'The liquid was heated' or 'I heated the liquid'?
Parent or teacher notes
- Ask the learner to show working or quote evidence only where the task requires it.
- Use the answer guide to identify the exact misconception rather than asking for unnecessary extra writing.
- For extended English tasks, quality and accuracy matter more than length.
Answer and assessment guidance
- 1. Active
- 2. Passive
- 3. The meal was cooked by the chef.
- 4. The storm broke the window.
- 5. To focus on the action/result rather than the doer, or because the doer is unknown/unimportant.
- 6. Often passive in formal scientific writing; accept explanation.