Describe one building, bridge, or other piece of architecture with sentences until your partner guesses which one you are talking about. Your partner can only guess once per sentence you say.
Passive voice grammar presentation
Without looking above, brainstorm forms that can go before PP (= past participle)
+ held
+ held
+ held
+ held
+ held
Look above to check and help brainstorm more possibilities.
What do (most of) the forms have in common (in terms of grammar and meaning)?
What’s the difference between these forms?
It held/ It was held
It has held/ It has been held
Which form is passive and which is active? In which is the subject the thing doing the action?
Change these phrases into the other form (active to passive or passive to active):
In the movies, they destroyed it…
You can see it in the movie…
People have criticised it for…
It has been renovated since…
It is criticised…
It is decorated…
It was bought by…
People will knock it down…
It will be renovated…
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Suggested passive sentences to describe architecture
(In the movies), it was destroyed…
… has been held there.
… is held there.
… was based on it.
… was held there.
… will be held there.
It can be seen in the movie…
It can be seen…
It has been criticised for…
It has been famous since…
It has been renovated… times
It is (mainly) made from…
It is connected to…
It is criticised…
It is decorated…
It is lit up…
It is located near to…
It is made of/ made from…
It is opened to the public…
It is painted…
It is situated in…
It is surrounded by…
It is used for…
It is visited…
It isn’t used (…)
It used to be used for…
It was bought by…
It was bought…
It was built by…
It was built in…
It was built…
It was criticised…
It was damaged by…
It was designed by…
It was designed to…
It was knocked down…/ Part of it was knocked down…
It was moved…
It was named a World Heritage site…
It was renovated…
It was replaced by…
It was sold…
It will be knocked down…
It will be renovated…
It will be used…
Photos are often taken of…
The design was based on…
The space outside is used for…
Suggested architecture to describe
Your teacher will tell you if/ when you can also describe places not below.
101 Building, Taipei
Amsterdam Station, The Netherlands
Battersea Power Station, London
Big Ben/ The Houses of Parliament, London
Buckingham Palace, London
Burj Jhalifa, Dubai
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
Himeji Castle, Japan
Kiyomizu Temple, Kyoto, Japan
Kyoto Station
Machu Picchu, Peru
Mont San Michel, France
Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris
Petra, Jordan
Petronas Twin Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Pyramids of Giza, Egypt
St Mark’s Cathedral, Venice, Italy
St Paul’s Cathedral, London
Stonehenge, UK
Sydney Opera House, Australia
Taj Mahal, India
The (old) Imperial Hotel, Tokyo (now in Nagoya)
The Aya Sophia, Istanbul
The Bird’s Nest stadium, Beijing
The Blue Mosque, Istanbul
The Coliseum, Rome
The Eiffel Tower, Paris
The Empire State Building, New York
The Forbidden Palace, Beijing
The Gherkin, London
The Great Wall of China
The Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy
The London Eye
The Louvre, Paris
The Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Spain
The Smithsonian Museum, Washington, USA
The Tower of London
The Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy
The World Cup Stadium, Seoul
Tokyo Station
Tower Bridge, London
Versailles Palace, near Paris
Wat Po, Bangkok, Thailand
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