WARM-UP VIDEO FOR PASSIVE (ALL FORMS OF 'BE')

Instructions. Listen and type the verb in passive (all forms of 'be').

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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.

David will not be an organ donor. This is a huge problem in Switzerland. Organs (1) …………..every day. Because when you don't know what people want, the decision has to (2) ………….. by the family, and most of the time, they say no, because it's just too difficult. Arriving at home, I drop my bags, I sit down and I think back at the situation at the hospital. And I say, there's something to (3) ………….. here. A month later, I have everything on paper, I'm going to create a digital organ donor card, that can (4) ………….. on smartphones. I present the project to the president of the organ donation program, and he says, "Go ahead!". He looks at it and he says: "Wow, that's impressive, but how do you access the card when a phone (5) ………….. ?" And at this time, I realized that everything I had done until now was useless. My pretty organ donor card could not (6) ………….. by health care personnel because the phone would probably (7) ………….. . I was desperate. The following night, I remember reading about some new technology.

Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.

David will not be an organ donor. This is a huge problem in Switzerland. Organs (1) (are lost) every day. Because when you don't know what people want, the decision has to (2) (be taken) by the family, and most of the time, they say no, because it's just too difficult. Arriving at home, I drop my bags, I sit down and I think back at the situation at the hospital. And I say, there's something to (3) (be done) here. A month later, I have everything on paper, I'm going to create a digital organ donor card, that can (4) (be installed) on smartphones. I present the project to the president of the organ donation program, and he says, "Go ahead!". He looks at it and he says: "Wow, that's impressive, but how do you access the card when a phone (5) (is locked) ?" And at this time, I realized that everything I had done until now was useless. My pretty organ donor card could not (6) (be accessed) by health care personnel because the phone would probably (7) (be locked) . I was desperate. The following night, I remember reading about some new technology.

Sources: 

Channel: TEDx Talks. Saving lives, one app at a time | Jocelyn Corniche | TEDxCHUV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky6K_Wsx5RE

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