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1. Look at the photo. What things do you think a wearable gadget can do?
2. Read the text and check your ideas from exercise 1.
The camera revolution
Over the past 20 years, (1) the way in which we take, keep and share photos has been transformed. Most people use smartphones and digital cameras to take photos, and billions of photos have been uploaded to social networking sites. So (2) have traditional celluloid film cameras been replaced by these gadgets? Not yet, but it won't be long.
However, things are going to change again. Wearable gadgets that have recently been developed allow you to take a photo simply by blinking. (3) Messages can also be sent and information can be accessed with these wearable gadgets. (4) The technology hasn't been perfected, so (5) these devices won't be sold in shops for a while.
(6) Will cameras and mobiles be replaced by wearable gadgets? (7) They can't be replaced yet but (8) they may be taken over sooner than we think. What's certain is that (9) our lives will be changed by these devices in ways we haven't even thought of.
3. Match the underlined passive forms in the text (1–9) with the tenses below (a–h).
a. present perfect affirmative
b. present perfect negative
c. present perfect interrogative
d. will future affirmative
e. will future interrogative
f. will future negative
g. modal verb can and may affirmative
h. modal verb can negative
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4. Complete the predictions with the affirmative future passive form of the verbs below.
build control speak connect
One hundred years from now, ...
1. the weather _________ by humans.
2. we _________ all _________ to computers so that we can think faster.
3. only two languages _________ in the world (English and Chinese).
4. hotels _________ on the moon.
5. SPEAKING Work in pairs. Say if you agree or disagree with the statements in exercise 4. Use the phrases below to help you.
I don't agree that ... I agree that ...
I'm not sure that ... I wouldn't say that ...
6. Complete the sentences with the verbs below. Use the present perfect passive.
sell share take upload watch
In the past hour, ...
1. 100 million photos have been taken.
2. 208,000 mobile phones ____________
3. 1.7 million photos ____________ to Instagram.
4. 350 million photos ____________ with friends on Facebook.
5. 8.3 million hours of video ____________ on YouTube.
7. SPEAKING Work in pairs. Ask and answer questions about your experiences. Use the present perfect passive with ever for questions and simple past passive for extra information.
1. photograph / at school?
Have you ever been photographed at school?
2. punish / for something you didn't do?
3. hurt / while doing sport?
4. criticise / by a good friend?
