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Verb Voice and Mood

Understand and use active and passive voice deliberately, and recognise verb moods (indicative, imperative, subjunctive, conditional) and their effects — choosing the appropriate voice and mood for purpose and audience

Lesson

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Choose voice and verb forms to suit a purpose. Distinguish statements, instructions, formal subjunctive forms and conditional constructions.

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Activity

Ask the learner to turn 'The team tested the latch' into passive voice. Expected: 'The latch was tested by the team.' Ask what receives focus and whether the event stays in the past. Then compare 'She is here' and 'It is important that she be here.' If be is unfamiliar, demonstrate the formal base form before starting. The existing subjunctive source is a prerequisite opportunity, not evidence that this learner knows it.

Policy

Check readiness directly. Prerequisite availability is not attainment.

Printer, credit, and teaching notes

Check readiness directly. Prerequisite availability is not attainment.

Use paper and a pencil. All source text and task facts are supplied. Start with the readiness check, then Show, Guided and Try. There is no speed or word-count target. Read the active sheet on screen and write on plain paper. No printer, cutting, purchase or internet is needed. The adult may read instructions or source text without supplying corrections or interpretations. Record read-aloud help, prompts, spelling help and scribing. Oral explanations can show reasoning; dictation and adult scribing do not show independent written composition or handwriting. Pause or split the lesson as needed. Adult-only: keep scripts and keys away from learner pages. Share only the current Show model. Put Show and Guided work aside before Try. Keep the fresh task facts and passages available; this is not a memory test. Give no target correction, classification, phrase or interpretation during the first attempt. If help is needed, give it and record the work as supported. Use only the supplied fictional situations. No real names, personal stories, online contact, uploads, public sharing or physical experiments are needed.

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Choose voice and verb forms to suit a purpose. Distinguish statements, instructions, formal subjunctive forms and conditional constructions.

Choose voice and verb forms to suit a purpose. Distinguish statements, instructions, formal subjunctive forms and conditional constructions.

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KS3 English

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KS3 English supports Verb Voice and Mood. An adult previews and guides; this is a learning page, not a scored quiz.

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Ask the learner one fact they learned and one question they still have.

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Public BBC Bitesize page. An anonymous GET on 2026-11-12 returned HTTP 200 with no login or payment prompt for this URL. Opening the link does not save practice or assess mastery. An adult should preview and guide the learner.

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Check understanding

  • Rewrite an active sentence in the passive voice and explain when the passive is more appropriate
  • Identify the subjunctive mood in a formal text (e.g., 'If I were...', 'It is essential that he be...')
  • Explain why a scientific report typically uses passive voice while a personal narrative uses active
“When your child writes a formal report or analysis, can they choose between active and passive voice deliberately — for example, using passive voice in a science write-up to sound objective and impersonal?”

Curriculum record

Type
Conceptual
Subject
English
Domain
Grammar & Punctuation
Age range
Ages 12–14

Standards

ccss-ela:L.8.1bccss-ela:L.8.1cccss-ela:L.8.1duk-nc-2013:KS3-ENG-GV-1auk-nc-2013:KS3-ENG-GV-1b