Therapy Activity

Spoken active to passive flips

Last Updated: 15 August 2023

Appropriate Population: 

  • School-age 12 and older. 
  • Good verbal skills.
  • Ability to attend to and respond to verbal information. 

 

Goal: 

  • Understand and use the passive voice appropriately in conversation. 

 

Steps:

  1. Introduce the idea of active and passive sentences to the student. Talk through examples of active sentences and passive sentences with them. Discuss and explain to them why the sentences are active or passive.
  2. Say sentences in the passive voice, and see if the student can repeat it back to you in the active voice.
  3. Swap roles. They create a passive sentence and you flip it.
  4. Tell a story with both an active and passive voice in it. Have the student identify which sentences were active vs passive and explain why.
  5. Swap roles.

 

Step up: 

  • Focus on steps 2 and 5.
  • Include complex sentences. 

 

Step down:

  • Take out steps 2 and 5. 
  • Focus on steps 1 and 2 and repeat with simple verbs.
Nicole
Fora's Speech Pathology team

Nicole

Fora's Speech Pathology team

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