Activity

Active vs. Passive Voice Hot Potato

A group based game to practice converting sentences between active and passive voice. Can be used to practice phrasal verbs, and causative and perceptive verbs as well. Made for Junior High 3rd Year.

Modeled after kelbo's Hot Potato "Batsu" game.

Get students into groups of 4 or so, and give them a copy of the printout, and have them get 1 pen or pencil, or any random object that can act as the "hot potato."
Students should fold the paper and only look at the ACTIVE side.
Explain to students that you will play some music, and they will pass the pen/pencil around,
when the music stops, the teacher can call out a number (or just have students go through the sheet 1-10).
The student left holding the pen will have to convert the sentence from active to passive, and the other studnets can confirm if they are correct or not by looking at the PASSIVE side of the paper. If the student get its correct they are SAFE. If they are incorrect, they are OUT. If they are OUT they must suffer some kind of "punishment," in my class they had to read off a challenging tongue twister I wrote on the board.
There is an example on the top of the paper that you can direct students to look at before starting the game that can be helpful for them to recall what grammar they're using.

Other Hot Potato games listed here on altopedia suggested that student must use a baby voice in the next turn, or talk in slow motion in the next turn, or wear cat ears or some other kind of fun and simple "punishment." If you wanted to award points to correct answers, and 0 points to incorrect, that could also be fun, without any kind of punitive action haha. My Japanese teacher did not want me to use the term PUNISH or PUNISHMENT so I just said students were OUT and they must say the tongue twister.

One side has phrasal verbs, and one side has causative and perceptive verbs.

Made for Junior High 3rd year students and to align to New Treasure Grammar 4-2.

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Submitted by kitaqalt October 11, 2024 Estimated time: 10-20mins+

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