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Computers Computers
The computer was invented by many scientists and engineers
Their ideas were developed in the 1930s and 1940s and then were turned into working machines.
Internet Internet
Bill Gates said: “ In few years computers of the whole world will be connected into one net.
Passive VoicePassive Voice Passive voice is used when the focus is on the action
Mary writes a letter.
A letter is written by Mary.
Active
Passive
Mary wrote a letter
A letter was written by Mary.
Simple Present
Simple Past
Active
Passive
Be (Present ) + verb (Past Participle) am/ is /are
Be (past) + verb (Past Participle) was/ were
SUBJECT OBJECT
SUBJECT
Did you know..?
• Text-messaging (1) ……………………………………. by the Finnish company Nokia. Thay wanted to help Finnish teenagaers, who were very shy. They found it easier to text their friends tan to call them.
• The first bikini (2) ……………………………………. By two French men. It (3) ……………………………………. after ‘Bikini Atoll’, the island where the atomic bomb was first tested. The french men thought that the bikini would have a similar effect on men as a bomb exploding.
• Although penicillin (4) ……………………………………. by Alexander Fleming, he didn’t know how to make it into a medicine. It (5) ……………… first……………………. Into a medicine 10 years later, by Australian scientist Howard Florey.
• Spiders (6) ……………………………………. as a cure for toothaches in the 17th century. People used them as a paste and then put them on the bad tooth.
• Sherlock Holmes, the great detective, (7) ……………………………………. by writer Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes (8) ……………………………………. on a real person – Doule’s teacher at medical school, who was famous for saying to his students, “What can you tell me by just observing the patient?”
was invented
was designedwas named
was discoveredwas
made
were used
was created was based
create – discover – design – invent – make – base – use – name