With your partner, try to guess the answers to the questions below:
1. The electric chair was invented by a dentist
2. 10% of Americans have appeared on TV
3. Chewing gum will stop you from crying when you are cutting onions
4. A sneeze travels at 10 miles per hour
5. Ice cream was first made in Italy
6. More wine is produced in Italy than France
7. The first underground railway was opened in New York
8. The first jeans were made by Levi Strauss (a German tailor)
9. The original VW Beetle was designed by Ferdinand Porsche
10. Mirrors were invented by the ancient Egyptians
11. Windmills always turn anticlockwise (= the opposite direction to a clock)
12. The rubber tyre was invented by John Dunlop
13. The first football World Cup was played in 1960
14. Over 3 million flowers are grown in the Netherlands (=Holland) each year
15. Bats always turn left when flying out of a cave
Choose which question you think is easiest from the list above.
Identify the active and passive tenses above
Adapted from “Did you know?” (Reward Elementary Resource Pack activity 38) and “Believe it or not True or False?” (Clockwise Intermediate Resource Pack pg 44)
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Active Passive True/ False quiz Answer Key/ Teacher’s Notes
1. The electric chair was invented by a dentist TRUE
2. 10% of Americans have appeared on TV FALSE (really 25% of Americans)
3. Chewing gum will stop you from crying when you are cutting onions TRUE
4. A sneeze travels at 10 miles per hour FALSE (really 100 mph)
5. Ice cream was first made in Italy FALSE (in China)
6. More wine is produced in Italy than France TRUE
7. The first underground railway was opened in New York FALSE (in London)
8. The first jeans were made by Levi Strauss (a German tailor) TRUE
9. The original VW Beetle was designed by Ferdinand Porsche TRUE
10. Mirrors were invented by the ancient Egyptians TRUE
11. Windmills always turn anticlockwise (= the opposite direction to a clock) TRUE
12. The rubber tyre was invented by John Dunlop TRUE
13. The first football World Cup was played in 1960 FALSE (1930)
14. Over 3 million flowers are grown in the Netherlands (=Holland) each year FALSE (3 billion)
15. Bats always turn left when flying out of a cave TRUE
As a more challenging variation, you can ask students to identify the tense and answer the question to get a point.
To add listening (and save paper), you could read out the questions instead of giving out the worksheets.
Adapted from “Did you know?” (Reward Elementary Resource Pack activity 38) and “Believe it or not True or False?” (Clockwise Intermediate Resource Pack pg 44)