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Thank you for the nice post, Catherine. I really enjoy learning about English and Britain, its cities and history. Newcastle is lovely city.

This is my try on passive; following order, one by one:

Exercise 1:

1. Past simple passive
2. Past simple passive
3. Future passive
4. Passive infinitive
5. Past simple passive
6. Past simple passive
7. Present continuous passive
8. Present perfect passive
9. Present simple passive
10. Future passive

Exercise 2:

1. The world's first locomotive factory was established by George Stephenson and his son Robert.
2. The 2016 Olympic games will be hosted by the city of Rio.
3. The Tyne bridge is loved by the people of Newcastle.
4. A new communications system is being developed.
5. The award for best actor has been won by Daniel Day-Lewis.
6. The British people were introduced to a particular blend of tea by Charles Earl Grey.
7. Protective clothing had to be worn in the museum.

Exercise 1:

1.past simple passive
2.past simple passive
3.future simple passive
4.infinitive passive
5.past simple passive
6.past simple passive
7.present continuous passive
8.present perfect simple passive
9.present simple passive
10.future simple passive

Exercise 2:

1. The world's first locomotive factory was established by George Stephenson and his son Robert.
2. The 2016 Olympic Games will be hosted by the city of Rio.
3. The Tyne Bridge is loved by the people of Newcastle.
4. A new communications system is being developed by us.
5. The award for best actor has been won by Daniel Day-Lewis.
6. The British people were introduced to a particular blend of tea by Charles Earl Grey.
7. Protective clothing had to be worn by them in the museum.

Catherine, thank you very much for the information about your home town and first of all about Earl Grey tea. It`s my favorite tea. I usually prefer coffee to tea, but if I have tea it is Earl Grey tea only and now I know that Charles Earl Grey was from Newcastle. If I had the opportunity to visit your country (and not only yours), I would like to visit towns and villages, not the capital. We have read, heard and seen a lot about capital cities. But I think to know real national life is not possible only in the big cities. I`d like to read more about Bath, Sheffield and other interesting places in Great Britain. Thanks a lot!

Hi Catherine,
I'd like to add more thanks for this introduction to your home town - very inviting! Reminds me that I used to write letters to a pen pal from Newcastle when I was a secondary-school student. I wonder what's become of her ...

Thank you, too, for the extremely useful presentation of the language point! However, since some of my fellow readers have already done a very good job with your exercises, I would like to raise another question. Hope you don't mind!

In your sentence "But I do know that even as I write this, Earl Grey tea is being served to tea-drinkers..." you gave us a beautiful example of present continuous passive in the second part of the sentence, but in the first part you chose present simple tense ("even as I write this").
Now, we are always told that present simple is for repeated actions and universal truths and the like, while the above example seems to be a case in point for an action that is going on "right now" and would thus fulfil the requirements for present continuous. So, I would probably have decided to put "even as I am writing this,..." Would that have been wrong, and if so, is there some justifying rule behind it?
I hope I was able to make myself understood :)

Thank you very much in advance for answering my question!
Elisabeth (Austria)

thank you very much for your interesting blog

Hi Cathrine,

Thanks for writing such an informative comment, really enjoyed reading it. I have been to Newcastle but unfortunately did not get a chance to visit those places, it was a very short visit. Hope to visit Newcastle sometimes in the future and visit all those places.

It is good to know about the history of earl grey tea. I am not fond of drinking tea but my daughters love earl grey tea, they even persuaded me to try it but I never tried it.

I must admit that the exercises were a good practice for me but, since I agree with the answers of the other people I did not put them into writing here. Looking forward to your next comment.

Varisha

Thank you for the nice post, Catherine. I really enjoy learning about English and Britain, its cities and history. Newcastle is lovely city.

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Hi, catherine
I'm new here, your story is very interesting and i will posting a story about me and my place someday if I have a free time. This is my effort to improve my poor english.

Hi, Catherine
Thank you, it is my first try to do homework here:
Exercise 1
• The bridge was opened - past simple passive
• many of them were built by Victorian industrialists. - past simple passive
• you will be challenged - future passive
• a bridge had to be built - passive infinitive
• this one was built - past simple passive
• the tea was specially blended by a Chinese guest - past simple passive
• Earl Grey tea is being served - present continuous passive
• it has been beautifully maintained - present perfect passive
• It is very well-loved by the people of Newcastle - present simple passive
• you'll be very impressed by the city -future infinitive

Exercise 2
1. George Stephenson and his son Robert established the world's first locomotive factory.
The world's first locomotive factory was established by George Stephenson and son Robert.
2. The city of Rio will host the 2016 Olympic Games.
The 2016 Olympic Games will be hosted the city of Rio.
3. The people of Newcastle love the Tyne Bridge.
The Tyne Bridge is loved by the people of Newcastle.
4. We are developing a new communications system.
A new communications system was developed by us.
5. Daniel Day-Lewis has won the award for best actor.
The award for best actor has been won by Daniel Day-Lewis. .
6. Charles Earl Grey introduced the British people to a particular blend of tea.
By Charles Earl Grey was introdused a particular blend of tea the British people..
7. They had to wear protective clothing in the museum.
They had to be worn protective clothing in the museum.

Best wishes,

Hello Catherine!

Thanks for your interesting post. Newcastle upon Tyne is a beautiful city indeed.

And exercises:

• The bridge was opened- past simple passive
• many of them were built by Victorian industrialists.- past simple passive
• you will be challenged- future passive
• a bridge had to be built -past passive
• this one was built- past simple passive
• the tea was specially blended by a Chinese guest- past simple passive
• Earl Grey tea is being served-present continuous passive
• it has been beautifully maintained - present perfect passive
• It is very well-loved by the people of Newcastle- present simple passive
• you'll be very impressed by the city- future passive

Exercise 2.

1. George Stephenson and his son Robert had established the world's first locomotive factory. or The world's first locomotive factory was established by George Stephenson and his son.
2. The 2016 Olympic Games will be hosted in the city of Rio.
3. The Tyne Bridge has been loved by people of Newcastle.
4. We have been developing a new communications system.
5. Daniel Day-Lewis has won the award for best actor.
6. The British people were introduced to a particular blend of tea by Charles Earl Grey. or The British people have been introduced to a particular blend of tea by Charles Earl Grey.
7. They have (had) had to wear protective clothing in the museum.

Thanks for such a challenge.
Sofiko