Active or Passive?
Complete this info box about New Zealand. Put each verb into the correct active or passive form.
New Zealand ... (name) in 1642 by the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman. But the Maori people who ...(settle) there a thousand years earlier, it was ‘the land of the long white cloud’.
New Zealand was once part of the British Empire. It ...(become) fully independent in 1947.
The country ... (grow) a lot of fruit and vegetables.Sheep farming is also important. There are at least ten times as many sheep as people. New Zealand ... (know) as ‘the world’s biggest farm’.
Many of New Zealand’s products ... (buy) by the British, but that changed when Britain ... (join) the European community in 1973. Since then NewZealand ... (trade) more with Australia and South- East Asia.
The country’s official languages are English and Maori. Since the 1970s Maori ... (teach) in schools with Maori students.
Women ... (allow) to vote since 1893. At that time, women ... (not/give) this right in any other country of the world.
New Zealand is only a little larger than the UK, so the mainplaces ... (can/visit) without too much travelling.
Sport is big in New Zealand. The rugby team ...(call) the All Blacks. Before each international the
players ... (perform) a war dance. Usually the
dance ... (lead) by a Maori member of the team.
