Destination B1 · Grammar & Vocabulary · Mann & Taylore-Knowles
Destination B1
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UNIT 1 · GRAMMAR
Present simple / continuous / stative
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UNIT 2 · GRAMMAR
Past simple / continuous / used to
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UNIT 3 · VOCAB
Fun and games
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UNIT 4 · GRAMMAR
Present perfect simple / continuous
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UNIT 5 · GRAMMAR
Past perfect simple / continuous
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UNIT 6 · VOCAB
Learning and doing
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UNIT 7 · GRAMMAR
Future time
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UNIT 8 · GRAMMAR
Prepositions of time and place
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UNIT 9 · VOCAB
Coming and going
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UNIT 10 · GRAMMAR
The passive 1
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UNIT 11 · GRAMMAR
The passive 2
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UNIT 12 · VOCAB
Friends and relations
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UNIT 13 · GRAMMAR
Countable and uncountable nouns
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UNIT 14 · GRAMMAR
Articles
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UNIT 15 · VOCAB
Buying and selling
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UNIT 16 · GRAMMAR
Pronouns and possessive determiners
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UNIT 17 · GRAMMAR
Relative clauses
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UNIT 18 · VOCAB
Inventions and discoveries
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UNIT 19 · GRAMMAR
Modals 1: ability, permission, advice
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UNIT 20 · GRAMMAR
Modals 2: obligation, probability
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UNIT 21 · VOCAB
Sending and receiving
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UNIT 22 · GRAMMAR
Modals 3: the modal perfect
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UNIT 23 · GRAMMAR
Questions, question tags, indirect Qs
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UNIT 24 · VOCAB
People and daily life
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UNIT 25 · GRAMMAR
So / such, too / enough
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UNIT 26 · GRAMMAR
Comparatives and superlatives
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UNIT 27 · VOCAB
Working and earning
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UNIT 28 · GRAMMAR
Conditionals 1 (zero, first, second)
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UNIT 29 · GRAMMAR
Conditionals 2 (third)
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UNIT 30 · VOCAB
Body and lifestyle
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UNIT 31 · GRAMMAR
Reported speech
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UNIT 32 · GRAMMAR
Reported questions, orders, requests
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UNIT 33 · VOCAB
Creating and building
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UNIT 34 · GRAMMAR
Direct and indirect objects
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UNIT 35 · GRAMMAR
wish
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UNIT 36 · VOCAB
Nature and the universe
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UNIT 37 · GRAMMAR
-ing and infinitive
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UNIT 38 · GRAMMAR
Both, either, neither, so, nor
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UNIT 39 · VOCAB
Laughing and crying
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UNIT 40 · GRAMMAR
Connectives
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UNIT 41 · GRAMMAR
The causative
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UNIT 42 · VOCAB
Problems and solutions
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UNIT 10 · Destination B1 · Grammar
The Passive 1“be + past participle” – 43 interactive questions
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Destination B1 – Grammar & Vocabulary
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📖 Grammar Reference – The Passive 1
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What you’ll learnPresent simple & past simple passive + agent with ‘by’
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~20 min4-Tier notes + 6 exercises (A–F)
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47 questionsInstant automated feedback
1 Tier 1 – The Concept & Nuance: Focusing on the Action, Not the Agent
The passive voice is used when the action itself is more important than who did it, or when the agent is unknown, obvious, or unimportant.
📌 Present Simple Passive (is / are + done)
– Form: am / is / are + past participle (V3)
– “English is spoken all over the world.”
– “Millions of emails are sent every minute.”
– “English is spoken all over the world.”
– “Millions of emails are sent every minute.”
⏮️ Past Simple Passive (was / were + done)
– Form: was / were + past participle (V3)
– “The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell.”
– “These houses were built in 1995.”
– “The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell.”
– “These houses were built in 1995.”
2 Tier 2 – Active to Passive Transformation & The “By” Agent
⚖️ Active vs Passive Conversion
| Active | “Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet.” |
| Passive | “Romeo and Juliet was written by Shakespeare.” |
| Omission of ‘by’ | Do not add by someone / by them / by people when the agent is vague: “My car was stolen.” (NOT by someone). |
3 Tier 3 – Top 3 Common Learner Pitfalls
✗ The letters was sent yesterday.
✓ The letters were sent yesterday.
– Rule: Match was / were with the plural subject (letters ➔ were).
✗ The castle built in 1450.
✓ The castle was built in 1450.
– Rule: Passive voice requires both be and the past participle (was built).
✗ This book was written with J.K. Rowling.
✓ This book was written by J.K. Rowling.
– Rule: Use by for the creator/person agent; use with for the instrument/tool.
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Tier 4 – Interactive Practice: Work through Exercises A–F below to master active-to-passive conversions!
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Practice material based on the Destination B1 Grammar & Vocabulary syllabus (Macmillan). Interactive version by All English 4U.