Radio Program: The World Bank under Fire

• English
• Secondary Education

Listening 2

Radio Program: The World Bank under Fire

Objectives

- Identifying the meaning of new words

- Listening to general and specific information

- Expressing pros and cons

- Making inferences

What do you know about the World Bank?

Video

Watch the video and answer the question that follows

What is the function of the World Bank?

What kinds of development projects do you think the
World Bank commits funds to? Give some specific
examples.

Do you know if your country has ever borrowed money
from the World Bank? If so, what was the money used
for?

Identify Pros and cons

Situation: A developing country has applied to the World

Bank for a $25 billion loan in order to build a dam that

will provide electric power to vast regions of the nation. If

built, the dam will flood an area where thousands of local

farmers live and will destroy forests.

Pros

cons

Time to think critically

In groups: Identify the pros and cons of the following topic:

- School Unifrom

- Homework assignments

- Loans

- Online shopping

LMS

Use the organizer on LMS to identify the pros and cons of your topic

lms.moe.gov.ae

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