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Present passive voice (descriptive/procedural text)

Focus on the process, not the doer

  • Foreign languages important
  • Literature and philosophy important

7 minutes

The academic content is in Arabic, as at the BAC and as in the app.

What the syllabus expects from you

  • Present passive voice in descriptive/procedural text about education

The method

  1. Passive = be + past participle; keep tense on 'be', not on the main verb

The common mistakes

  • Forgetting 'be' (X assessed instead of X is assessed)

From the lesson

Read these two sentences about a school library.

The vocabulary

  • is assessed (يُقيَّم)

What is not on the syllabus

  • Sequencing devices (next concept)
  • noun formation -ing/-tion/-ation (next concept)

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