My Cousin Rachel-- BBC version

This is a 1983 BBC version of My Cousin Rachel. It's the English original version, but you can activate the subtitles in English to help your understanding. It 's divided into four parts.

There is a new version of the book released in 2017. This is the trailer:

Passive with reporting verbs

Welcome back! I hope you have had some rest and you are ready to start again.

We are going to begin with the use of the passive voice with reporting verbs. 

This grammar point is not on your textbook and this is why I'm going to give you a brief explanation here. 

PASSIVE VOICE WITH REPORTING VERBS

The passive is often used with say, believe, think, know, understand, claim, suppose, report and similar verbs used in reporting speech. 

For example: 

People say that John Wilson lives in New York. 

There are two ways to make this sentence passive: 

1) It is said that John Wilson lives in New York 

("Se dice que John Wilson vive en Nueva York")

2) John Wilson is said to live in New York 

(Esta segunda opción no existe en español. Su traducción sería algo así como "John Wilson es dicho de vivir en Nueva York", frase imposible en nuestro idioma). 

In the second case, the infinitive in the subordinate depends on the original tense. 

Active                 --------->  Passive  

Present simple   -------->  TO-infinitive 

People think that he is very rich  -------->  He is thought to be very rich 

Will  ------------->  To-infinitive

They expect that oil prices will rise ---------> Oil prices are expected to rise. 

Be going to -----------------> To-infinitive

They expect that the team is going to win the competition again ---------> The team is expected to win the competition again.    

Past simple ------------------>  TO HAVE + PARTICIPLE 

People say that the situation was very difficult  -----------> The situation is said to have been very difficult. 

Present Perfect ----------------> TO HAVE+ PARTICIPLE 

People say that they have broken up --------> They are said to have broken up.    

Present Continuous --------------> TO BE + V-ing 

We believe that the situation is improving -----------> The situation is believed to be improving.    

Past continuous  ------------------> TO HAVE BEEN + V-ing 

They claim that oxygen levels were declining  -----------> Oxygen levels are claimed to have been declining.

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Thank you all for your effort to finish the second term.

Now it's time to have a rest.

Enjoy your free time with your family and take care!

The Passive Voice for sentences with two objects and the causative form

The Passive Voice with two objects


In Spanish, only the Direct Object ("complemento directo") can be the subject of the passive voice. You can never use the Indirect Object ("complemento indirecto") as the subject of the passive voice.

El alumno le entregó la tarea al profesor --> La tarea fue entregada por el alumno

(you cannot say:   ***El profesor fue entregada la tarea***).

But in English, both objects can be the subject of the passive voice, as you can see in the example given in the grey box of page 73 of your textbook:

The vet gave the rabbits injections   --->  The rabbits were given injections
                                                          --->  Injections were given to the rabbits

Go to this link for a longer explanation:

https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/grammar/passive_two_objects.htm

And do this exercise:

https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/active_passive/objects_tenses.htm

The Causative Form 

This is the following structure:

Subject + Have or Get + Direct Object + Past Participle

For example:

I had my house painted last year (en español decimos "Pinté mi casa el año pasado", cuando en realidad queremos decir "Hice que alguien pintara mi casa")

Go to this link for a longer explanation:

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/causatives-have-get.html

And do this exersise:

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/causatives-exercise-1.html

Now go to Google Classroom for the next task.

The Passive Voice

We had already started reviewing the Passive Voice on Friday 13th March.
You have a list of all tenses in the passive voice on page 131 of your textbook.
Now it's time to start doing the activities of page 72.

Homework:  Activities 1, 2 and 3 of page 72.
Place: Google Classroom
Deadline: Friday 27th March 23:59

All your homework sent to Google Classroom will be taken into account for your Third Term mark.


ABOUT YOUR SECOND TERM MARKS

As you may know, we teachers have to write the second evaluation marks next week, in spite of not having been able to mark any final exams.

For your mark of the second term, I will take into account:
1) your first term mark,
2) the mark of the middle term exam we did on February 5th,
3) your work during the second term (compositions and homework).



 

Let's start using Google Classroom

As most of you haven't sent me the PVEAU exam "A Different Guided Tour" yet, let's start using Google Classroom. Send your answers to Google Classroom instead of gmail.

https://support.google.com/edu/classroom/answer/6020285?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en

Remember that the deadline is tomorrow Wednesday 25th (23:59).

This mark will belong to the third term.

NEWS

These are the news today:


1) I have created a virtual classroom for our group on Google Classroom

You have to go to Google Classroom, clik on the + sign (top right), click on "apuntarse a una clase", and write this code: 

                                                                 huf2n5m


If you don't know how to do it, these are the instructions:

https://support.google.com/edu/classroom/answer/6020297?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=es

On Wednesday, I will start using this tool.


2) As you already know, the coronavirus lockdown has been extended for another 15 days:

https://english.elpais.com/politics/2020-03-22/spanish-government-to-extend-state-of-alarm-for-15-days.html

This is why we have to cancel the dates of our exams. I will tell you the new dates as soon as we know when we are going to come back.


3) These are the answers to the workbook activities of pages 28 and 31. Click on this link and you vill be able to check your answers.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1rD6iIuc9WsHOHH2JTiZJ87zm29o_vO6t

I will send you your marks this week.