ENTRY FIVE **PASSIVE VOICE (present perfect, present continous and present simple)

Today is March 5th, 2010.

Today, I learned over the problems that affects to the enviroment and its causes

In the other context, we saw the subject over drug addiction and its causes were: depression, domestc violence, peer presure and traffic. Although another importan subject was the noise pollution and air pollution and its causes that were inneffecient infrastructuram poorly, designed streets, crowdes streets.

More over, we learned oer the use of "PASSIVE VOICE" with present perfect, present simple and present continuos, and the form for to pass of a manner to other. For example:

Passive voice Active voice
English is taught (ver in past participle) I teach English

*Passive voice with present perfect*

structure: Has/Have+verb past participle(been)

Active: I have taught English here for a long time
Passive: English has been taught here for a long time

* Passive voice with present continuos
structure: to be(is, am, are)+ verb-ing

Active: I am teaching English
Passive: English is being taught

other example:

with present simple Present perfect
English is taught --------------- English has been taught

Present continuos
English is taught --------------- English is being taught

Vocabulary: peer presure, poorly, crowded, etc.

Comments: This new structure that we learned in class is interesting for any sentence.