Passive Voice

Complete the paragraph using the verb in parenthesis in the past and passive voice.

Between the 1930 and 1970, the number of tigers in India

fell from 40,000 to 2,000. A lot of them _____ _______
(hunt) for sport.

Land and wood _____ ________ (need) for India’s people,

so forests _____ ________ (cut down).

Then in 1972, a campaign ______ _________ (start) to save the tigers.

It _____ _________ (call) Project Tiger.

Several National Parks _____ ________ (create).

Money _____ ________ (collect) from all over the world.

Most of the money _____ _________ (use) to pay the guards of
the National Parks.

In the next twenty years the number of tigers rose again to 5,000.
But now they are in danger again.

Complete the paragraph using the verb in parenthesis in the present and passive voice.

Tigers are in danger. If nothing _______ _________ (do).

They will not survive.


Most of the world’s tigers ______ _________ (find) in India.


They ______ ________ (protect) in national parks.

However, every year hundreds of them ______ ________ (kill)
by poachers.

The tigers __________ (not hunt) for sport.

They _________ (want) for their bones.

These _________ (use) in traditional Chinese medicines.

When the tigers ________ (kill), their bones _________(send)
to china.

There they ____________ (sell) for thousands of dollars.