Lesson 51: Unit 107 - Passive Voice. Will / Future.
The lesson introduces the structure WILL BE + past participle for forming the passive voice in the future simple tense, including negatives and questions.
About this lesson
In this lesson you will learn how to form and use the passive voice in the future tense with the structure WILL BE + past participle. You will master the rule for placing adverbs between WILL and BE and will be able to transform active sentences into passive ones. You practise with an authentic text by Cambridge University geneticist Aubrey de Grey on extending human life. You practise asking questions and forming negatives in the passive voice with WILL.
40 minutes
What you'll learn
- Form the passive voice in the future simple tense: WILL BE + past participle.
- Place adverbs correctly – between WILL and BE.
- Form negatives (WON'T BE + past participle) and questions (WILL + subject + BE + past participle).
- Transform active sentences into passive ones in the future simple tense.
- Understand and use key vocabulary from the text about ageing and medicine.
Lesson vocabulary
- life expectancy Life expectancy is increasing in the developed world.
- to extend It will soon extend dramatically to 1,000.
- ageing Ageing is a physical phenomenon happening to our bodies.
- phenomenon Ageing is a physical phenomenon.
- to prevent We have a special project to prevent and cure ageing.
- to cure To say that we shouldn't cure ageing is ageism.
- damage All types of molecular and cellular damage will be successfully repaired.
- to repair All the damage will be successfully repaired.
- to apply The plan will be applied to mice at first.
- fragile These therapies aim at stopping us from being fragile.
- vulnerable We will no longer be vulnerable to diseases of old age.
- to replace Cells will be replaced.
- to substitute Body-parts will be substituted.
- chromosome Chromosomes will be stopped from mutating.
- unpredictable It will change society in an unpredictable way.
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