Level 4Lifestylegrammar

Passive Voice — All Tenses — Why Your Weekend Is Never Long Enough

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Free ESL grammar exercise on passive voice — all tenses themed around why your weekend is never long enough. Printable worksheet from classplan.ai.

What's on this worksheet

A Level 4 (upper intermediate) ESL grammar exercise on lifestyle. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.

From the reading

In South Korea, workers once averaged over fifty-two hours a week. The legal maximum was reduced to fifty-two hours in 2018. In Japan, a concept called karoshi became so common that it was tracked officially.

Grammar

Present simple passive
The report is published every year. — use when the agent is unknown or unimportant
Past simple passive
The law was introduced in 2018. — completed past action, focus on the result

Sample items

  1. The new law ______ introduced to protect workers from overwork.
  2. Karoshi ______ officially tracked by the Japanese government every year.
  3. Higher wellbeing scores ______ reported by people who had active weekends.

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