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1 What is the book in the photo? Read the text and find out.

‘T’ he Bibie is the worlds most popular book. ^ Over too million copies are sold every year.

The Bibie probably nasil t written imtil about 50 years alterjesus s death. It was written in Hebrew and Greek, but it bas been translated into over two tliousand lan^ua^es. How many bibles have been printed? No one knows esaetly, but it 's probably morę than si.\ billiou.

2 Underline the passive forms in the text and match them with the tenses. Complete the table.

The passive
i	present simple affirmative	Dvcr 100 million topies arc. sold weoj 'fear
2	past simple affirmative
3	past simple negatiye
A	present perfect affirmative
5	present perfect interrogative

Grammar Builder (10D): page 122

4 Complete the text with the passiye form of the verbs in brackets.

Wiki Websites

'Wiki' means 'quick' in Hawaiian. The word ¹_(use)

to describe websites that ‘_(write) by the people

who use the site. Anyone who visits a wiki website can add or change the Information on the page The first wiki

website ^{1 2}_(create) by Ward Cunnmgham in 1995.

Since then, wiki guidebooks, wiki dictionaries and wiki

encydopaedias *_(publish) on the Internet. The

most popular online encydopaedia is 'Wikipedia' Over

22 million entries ³_(add) sińce it started. and it is

now the most detailed encydopaedia in the world

Accordmg to the creator of Wikipedia, the work ⁴_

(do) by 20,000 people who regularly edit the pages The amazing thing is that the Information is completely free.

5    Complete the questions with the correct passive form

(present simple, past simple or present perfect) of the verbs

in brackets.

1    What item of dothing_(ban) from some shopping

centres and schools in England?

2    Where_the Oxford and Cambridge boat race

_(hołd) every year?

3    Who_(attack) by a shark in Hawaii in 2003?

A Which two languages_(speak) today in Wales?

5    Which actors_(choose) to play James Bond in the

Bond films?

6    Name one film that_(direct) by Paweł Pawlikowski.

7    What kind of food_(sell) at a butcheCs shop?

8    When_the Pałace of Culture in Warsaw_

(complete)?

6    Work in pairs. Ask and answer the questions in

exercise 5. The answers are all in units 1-5 of this book.

Unit 10 • The written word

1

Match the active and passive sentences with the same meaning and complete them.

Active

1 Tolkien_The Lord ofthe Rings in the 1950s.

2

) 2 They have translated a Harry Potter book into Latin!

3 They first_Hamlet in London in 1601.

A People know ).K. Rowling for the Harry Potter stories.

3

I 5 Spielberg_his film/atvs on a book by Peter Benchley.

4

lan Fleming created the character James Bond.

Passive

a Hamlet was first performed in London in 1601.

b The character James Bond_by lan Fleming.

c The film laws is based on a book by Peter Benchley.

d A Harry Potter book_into Latin!

e The Lord ofthe Rings was written by Tolkien in the 1950s. f I.K. Rowling ___ for the Harry Potter stories.