9. Listen and Reflect
a. We’re going to listen to a video by NEOM, the city authority which is responsible for the plan for The Line.
- How many of your questions does the video answer?
- What does the narrator say about:
- sustainability in Line City?
- community life?
b. Discuss these statements. How far do you agree with each?
- This is a wildly impractical project and is likely to be a disastrous failure.
- It might eventually succeed, but I wouldn’t personally want to live there.
- The way we live needs to change, so it’s good that Saudi Arabia is leading the way in creating a clean and sustainable city.
- We do need to change the way we live, but this is moving too far too fast.
- It’s too easy to criticise big projects like this, but the only way to achieve anything big is to take risks.
c. Find a different video (in English) about NEOM and Line City to watch outside class time. Summarise it for your classmates, next lesson.
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