Passive Voice

Click here to learn about the passive voice.

A short explanation and lots of exercises.

The Media

Click here to see some vocabulary related to the topic.

News stories

Websites to practise:

1. BBC Learning English: short real pieces of news with a summary, some vocabulary and the script.

2. Listen to News: short easy news reports with pre-listening vocabulary, gapfill texts, comprehension questions...

3. News in levels: choose a piece of news and a level (you have the script).

4. VOA: Level Two articles are meant for intermediate learners of American English. Sotries are often more than 500 words and may include audios from newsmakers. There may be a quiz to test your understanding and new words are explained in the Words in This Story area at the bottom of the article (very slow).

5. El País in English

6. Breaking News in English: choose the news story and the level. You have lessons with lots of activities.

Healthy eating

Listen to this conversation between a mother and a school nurse. She is asking the nurse for advice about her son. 

Staying Healthy

Keren talks about her healthy lifestyle and what she does to stay in shape. Do the vocabulary quiz and the comprehension quiz. Then listen and read the script.


Try this quiz and check how healthy you are.

Relative Clauses

1. Click here to listen and read some grammar about relative clauses.
2. Practice:
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3 (Learn about 10 American events in US history)

Relative pronouns

Click here to see a lesson on that topic.