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课件网) Unit 2 Travelling around Period 2 Reading and Thinking Explore Peru (Activity 1—Activity 4) Warming-up What is this country? It’s a country with the world’s longest mountain range, largest rainforest, oldest settlements, and great ancient civilisation. It’s a country with coasts, highlands, and jungles. You can trek(跋涉) through hot, humid jungles one day, and cold dry glaciers the next. Activity 1: Watch the video Welcome to Peru. Pre-reading 1. What did you see in the video? 2. What impresses you most in the video? Pre-reading The Andes Mountains, the Amazon rainforest, Cusco city, Machu Picchu, and Lake Titicaca. The Andes Mountains Answer the following questions. Pre-reading Cusco city The Amazon rainforest Pre-reading Lake Titicaca Machu Picchu Pre-reading What are some other sources from which we can find more about this country? To find more about Peru, we can check online, use an encyclopedia, go to the library or get some travel brochures. vs Pre-reading An encyclopedia Informative in nature, it usually presents all the basic facts of a subject, good or bad. Features: simple language, brief content, objective description Travel brochures It presents only a selection of good points about a place, making an effort to help the reader imagine what it is like to visit the country, and in an effort to persuade the reader to book a holiday. Features: vivid pictures, beautiful design, clear structure, powerful and expressive language, more subjective description Features of the two text types. Activity 2: Read the two texts about Peru quickly. Focus more on titles, headers, pictures and charts and then decide what types of text they are: encyclopedia or brochure? While-reading Text 1: An encyclopedia entry or introductory passage Text 2: A travel brochure basic facts about Peru beautiful pictures vivid description clear structure (subtitles) Amazon Rainforest Tour Machu Picchu Tour Cusco Tour Lake Titicaca Tour While-reading Based on the map given, read text 1 quickly and answer the following question. What information about Peru is covered in this text? location geographic characteristics history language culture ... An encyclopedia entry While-reading Pair work Read text 1 again and fill in the form below with your partner. Then retell the text with the help of the form. 1. 2. 3. in the 1400s and 1500s from the 1500s to 1821 on the pacific coast of South America narrow, dry, flat land Spanish the Amazon forest the centre of the powerful ancient Inca Empire was ruled by Spain the Andes Mountains Location Geographic characteristics (3 main areas) History Language While-reading Activity 3: Complete the passage with the correct forms of the new words from the two texts. Cusco is a popular d_____ for tourists, because of its u_____ place in the history of South America. Cusco was the capital city of the Inca E_____ which was the most powerful in South America until the 1500s. The ... ...
