Last week we practiced questions with a question word and with or without an auxiliary.

Question words are: what, who, why, which, how, whose, when, where.

The only instance in which we don't need to use and auxiliary is when the question word itself is the subject of the question:

Who wrote that book?

What happened to your friend?

Which film was directed by John Ford?


The last example above is also an example of the use of passive voice, which we mentioned in our lessons.

Passive voice is used when the focus is on the action. It is not important or not known, however, who or what is performing the action.
We can use any verb tense in the passive voice. Active voice can be converted into passive. Here is an example of a sentence in the Simple Present in both passive and active voice.

Simple Present	Active:	Rita	writes	a letter.
	Passive:	A letter	is written	by Rita.

Some extra homework: do the exercises on this link: http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/passive/exercises

We read a text about the song Imagine and its lyrics, which were written by Yoko Ono as well as John Lennon. Students summarized the text and wrote some questions about it. 

We listened to a phone conversations between a hotel receptionist and a customer and another one between the customer and the person in room service. We role played the dialogues.

For homework write about a band or singer of your choice. Tell us about them and their story.