Rachel Had to Guess This City From the Sky.
Intermediate (B1) · Conversations · 14 min · Premium
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Rachel is back, and this time the photo is harder.
It was taken from a plane. You can see houses, streets, trees, and a sky that isn't clear at all. Rachel thought she was looking at lots of separate cities. It's one city, and it's one of the biggest in the world.
She needed help, so I gave her clues. Smaller than Tokyo. Not in Asia. Not in Africa. Then she got the continent and I told her the rest. It's Mexico City, where about 23 million people live, roughly the population of Syria. And the haze in the sky isn't cloud. It's pollution, from the cars and the trucks and the factories.
The second photo is at night. People walking, palm trees, a red car, and a red and black bus far in the back. She guessed a park. It's the entrance of a huge mall, and it was surprisingly calm, which made her laugh, because in Lebanon there's always a crowd. Mexico City is more crowded than Lebanon, believe me, just not that night.
She says she isn't great at geography. Next time she brings the photos and I have to guess, and she has promised to make them hard.
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