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Question
Form pairs. Discuss and prepare a list of things that can be and will be done in future. (5 things) Spot the modal verbs in your answer.
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Solution
- Man will go to the moon for a holiday.
- We will have a medicine that gets rid of all types of pain instantly.
- There could be a machine that makes old people young again.
- There may be a robot that will do all the housework.
- A pill may be invented that will make cooking unnecessary.
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