Exercise 5. Complete the sentences. Use the past simple, present perfect or future passive form of the verbs in brackets.

1. Only 250 copies of this book ____________________ (sell) last year.
2. Celia ____________________ (invite) to a party next weekend but she can’t go.
3. The meeting ____________________ (hold) in the school hall yesterday.
4. My favourite actor ____________________ (nominate) for an Oscar. I hope he wins.
5. The results of the tests ____________________ (send) to you at the end of next week.
6. The New Year in 2000 ____________________ (celebrate) all over the world because it was the beginning of a new millennium.
7. The textbook ____________________ (publish) by Oxford University Press in 2016.

Exercise 3. Complete the text. Use the present passive form of the verbs in brackets.

There are many stages before story ____________________ 1. (publish) in a magazine. First it ____________________ 2. (research), and sometimes people ____________________ 3.(interview) by journalists. Then the story ____________________ 4.(write). The editor checks all the facts. The story ____________________ 5.(correct) and photos ____________________ 6.(take) to illustrate it. Finally, the whole magazine ____________________ 7. (print) and people can buy it.