Page 3 - Book I Unit 2

Reading and Thinking

Explore Peru

1 Watch the video Welcome to Peru and answer the questions.

1 What did you see in the video?

2 What other sources of information can you find about Peru?

2 Below are two texts about Peru. Look through them quickly. What types of text
are they: encyclopedia or brochure?

PEru is a country on the Pacific coast Recognise text
of South America with three main type
areas: narrow, dry, flat land running
along the coast, the Andes Mountains, Before you read,
and the Amazon rainforest. look through the
text quickly for
In the 1400s and 1500s, Peru was the titles, headers,
centre of the powerful ancient Inca pictures, charts,
Empire. The Inca emperor lived in and any other
the now-famous site Machu Picchu. information that
Spain took control of Peru in the 16th might tell you
century and ruled until 1821. It is for what type of text
this reason that Spanish is the main it is.
official language of Peru.

TRAVEL PERU

Amazon Rainforest Tour Machu Picchu Tour

A short flight from Cusco takes you This four-day walking tour will take you
from the Andes into the Amazon on amazing paths through the Andes
rainforest. From there, you’ll spend Mountains on the way to the city of Machu
one day travelling by boat to your Picchu. After reaching your destination, you
accommodation in the middle of the will have a day to explore and be amazed
forest. You can then spend three days by this ancient city. Especially amazing is
exploring the rainforest with a local the Incas’ dry stone method of building.
guide and enjoying the plants and Inca builders cut stones to exact sizes so that
animals unique to the rainforest. nothing was needed to hold walls together
other than the perfect fit of the stones.

26 UNIT 2 TRAVELLING AROUND