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Easy exercise to practise different tenses in the passive voice.

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  • 1. ENTERTAINMENT QUIZ Read each sentence carefully. Choose the correct form of the verb. Decide if the sentene is true of false.

2. 1. An anchor tatooes / is tatooed onPopeyes arm. 3. 2. Donald Duck comics banned / were banned inFinland because he doesnt wear pants. 4. 3. Matt Groening, the creator of The Simpsons,incorporated / was incorporated his name into thedrawing of Homer. 5. 4. Luke Skywalkers last name changed / was changed at the last minute fromStarkiller in order to make it less violent. 6. 5. The movie Braveheart filmed / wasfilmed mainly in Scotland. 7. 6. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II was made / were made of wood. 8. 7. In every episode ofSeinfeld a Batmancan see / can be seen somewhere. 9. 8. All of the clocks in the moviePulp Fiction stuck /are stuck on4:20. 10. 9. C3PO is the secondcharacter to speak / to bespoken in Star Wars. 11. 10. Since it introduction in February1935, more than 250 millionMonopoly boardgames have sold /have been sold worldwide. 12. ANSWERS 13. 1. An anchor is tatooed on Popeyes arm.TRUE 14. 2. Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesnt wear pants.FALSE: this is an urban legend. Donald was neveractually banned in Finland. In 1977 the city of Helsinkiwas in financial trouble. They made several budget cuts,one of these being the purchase of Donald Duck comicsfor the youth centers. The decision was made by Mr.Markku Holopainen. The next year Holopainen ran for aposition in the Finnish Parliament. His running adversarylabeled him as "the man who banned Donald Duck". Themedia tabloids took this and ran with it. Thay came upwith many different stories, including that he bannedDonald due to lack of pants. 15. 3. Matt Groening, the creator of The Simpsons,incorporated his name intothe drawing of Homer. FALSE: he incorporated his initials. M is the hairand G is the ear. 16. 4. Luke Skywalkers last name waschanged at the last minute fromStarkiller in order to make it less violent.TRUE: Early versions of Star Wars had Luke Skywalker depicted as a 60-year-old man and as a woman. The old man version of Luke became Obi Wan Kenobi in later drafts of the script, and characteristics ofLuke as woman were later used for Leia. Even when theydecided that Luke would be a young man, they didntcome up with the name Skywalker until the fourth draft of Star Wars. 17. 5. The movie Braveheart was filmed inScotland.FALSE: it was filmed mainly in Ireland. 18. 6. Because metal was scarce, the Oscarsgiven out during World War II were made ofwood.TRUE 19. 7. In every episode of Seinfeld aBatman can be seen somewhere.FALSE: its a Superman 20. 8. All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.FALSE: as you can see, this is another urban myth. 21. 9. C3PO is the second character to speak in Star Wars.FALSE: he was the first one. He said,Did you hear that?Theyve shut downthe main reactor. 22. 10. Since it introduction in February1935, more than 250 millionMonopoly boardgames have beensold worldwide. TRUE: According to Hasbro, as of early 2008, more than 250 copies of Monopoly have been sold worldwide. The company estimates that nearly 500 million people have played Monopoly.