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3 Choose the correct words in the Top ten
medical advances. Which do you think
are the most and least important?
Which are the most recent?
Top ten medical advances
1 A suffering / cure for malaria
2 The cause / discovery of antibiotics
3 Developing / Suffering a vaccine for flu
4 Clones / Operations to treat obesity
5 Drugs which prevent / discover depression
6 Heart transplants / developments
7 Research / Cures into the causes of cancer
8 Genetic therapy and causes / experiments
with clones
9 The development / prevention of the
common cold
10 A treatment / transplant for headaches
An operation without anaesthetic
could, can, will be able to
4 Complete sentences a–c from the Health quiz. Then
answer questions 1–3.
a We still cure this common illness.
b Doctors operate on people, but they didn’t have
anaesthetic.
c Robots prevent and cure diseases.
1 Which sentences express ability?
2 Which sentence expresses ability and possibility?
3 Which sentence refers to the …
a past? b present? c future?
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5 Complete the text with affirmative and negative forms
of can, could and will be able to.
Boy in a bubble
When Rob Thompson was born,
he had a defective immune system,
so his body couldn’t fight against
diseases. He 1 only survive inside
a sterile plastic bubble or room. He
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play outside with friends. But
thanks to a new treatment, Rob
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now do most of the things that
he wants to do, although he 4 live
without special drugs.
In the future, scientists 5 help other people like Rob with
gene therapy. They 6 improve the treatment for this illness
and maybe even find a cure one day.
6 ACTIVATE Make sentences using the phrases in the chart
and affirmative and negative forms of can, could and will
be able to. Then interview your partner about their ideas.
A nanobot
When I was
younger,
In the past,
These days,
Soon,
I hope that one day,
In the future,
I
my best friend
my parents
people
scientists
transplant brains
use a computer
explain the universe
treat a lot of diseases
live for 120 years
speak English
run 50 km/h
I could speak English when
I was younger. Could you?
No, I couldn’t, but I
could use a computer.
Finished?
Write sentences about past, present and future
technological advances. Use could(n’t), can(’t), and will /
won’t be able to.
In the 19th century, people couldn’t travel by plane.
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