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1.3 Active or passive?A. Students fill the gaps in the sentences about the UK using the passive or active forms of the verbs inthe box.Answers: 2. is made 3. don’t grow 4. aren’t cleaned 5. are held, holds6. isn’t translated (or hasn’t been translated) 7. closes 8. are employed, is ownedB. Pre-teach murder. Students fill the gaps with the passive or active forms of the verbs in the box, inthe present simple or past simple tense.Answers: 1. ate 2. were eaten 3. are murdered 4. are caused 5. were killed6. uses, are recycled 8. drink1.4 BangladeshA. Students look at the picture, and brainstorm everything they might know about Bangladesh. Writetheir ideas on the board.B. Individually, or in pairs or groups, students read the article. They should look up words they don’tknow in their dictionaries. They then fill the gaps with active and passive forms of the verbs listed.C. Pre-teach loose. Play audio 12.1 two or three times. Students check their answers.Answers: 1. suffers 2. was flooded 3. drowned 4. died 5. are caused6. are cut down 7. are destroyed 8. survive 9. are not given 10. don’t attendCheck that students have the correct tenses. The second and third paragraphs are in the presentsimple, as they are talking about a situation that happens all the time. The first paragraph had someinformation about things that happened in 1996. These use the past simple.60 Module 12