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Module 10 SKILLS FOCUS Civilisation
37 A Lost City Reading Vocabulary: Verbs of Movement
4 Read the Strategies. 7 Match the verbs from the text (1–7) with the
definitions (a–g).
Before you start Reading Strategies: Word Gaps
1 plunge (down) a cross on hands and knees
• Read through the whole text to get an idea.
1 Look at the photo. • Read the sentence with the gap and then the
2 crawl (across) b walk in a relaxed way
Describe the place and 3 struggle (up) c go up (e.g. a slope)
sentences before and after it.
answer these questions: 4 go on all fours d go up with difficulty
• Try to work out what kind of word is missing
5 stroll e move with hands and feet
1 What do you know (e.g. an article, linker, adjective etc.).
6 scramble (along) f go down very fast
about Machu Picchu? • For other words, use the general meaning of the
7 climb (up) g go over objects using your
Would you like to sentence to help you work them out. (e.g. is it a
hands to help you
visit it? positive or negative word?).
2 What other famous • Read the sentence again and see if it makes sense. How would you say these words in your language?
historical sites would More than one option may be possible.
3 Read the introduction about the explorer,
8 Replace the verbs in italics with the verbs from
you like to go to
around the world?
Hiram Bingham. How do you think he felt when 5 Now read the extracts (A–C) and use the Exercise 7 in their correct form.
he found the lost city of Machu Picchu? Use the Strategies to complete the gaps.
Mini-dictionary and the Key Words to help you. 1 In the evening, I usually walk in the park with my
2 Your Culture What are the most important
6 Read the extracts again. Decide which of the elderly dog.
historical sites in your country? Have you been to KEY WORDS: Adjectives sentences are true (T) and which are false (F). 2 When I got to the pool, I immediately jumped into
any of them? Tell the class. amazed, bewildered, ecstatic, exhausted, impressed, the deep end.
indifferent, shocked, spellbound 1 Arteaga was a local guide hired by the
3 I walked up the steep hill with five or six
expedition.
shopping bags.
2 The other members of the expedition were put
Hiram Bingham (1875-1956) had an extraordinary life. He was successively a Protestant pastor, 4 The entrance to the cave was small so I went
off by the weather.
a land surveyor, a museum curator, a university professor, a World War I pilot and an American through it on my hands and knees.
3 The bridge looked very dangerous to Bingham. 5 Last month I went up the Eiffel Tower without
politician. However, he is best remembered as an explorer, archeologist and discoverer of lost 4 They had to crawl up most of the slope.
cities. Here are some extracts from his book, ‘Lost City of the Incas’. taking the lift.
5 Bingham was physically very fit.
A
6 Bingham knew immediately that he had found Speaking
and seemed the lost city.
in cold drizzle. Arteaga shivered 9 Work in pairs. Student A turns to page 130,
‘The morning 24 of July 1911 dawned 1 he would show me the 7 The two big buildings he found were Inca
red to pay him well
inclined to stay in his hut. I offe day. But when he found temples. Student B turns to page 131. Read the information
too hard a climb for such a wet
ruins. He refused and said it was re the ruins were, he 8 The buildings were made of large stones. about the Incas. Then take turns to ask and answer
lly agreed to go. When asked whe questions to complete the information.
out I was willing to pay him more, he fina ed that they would be particularl
y 9 The sun played an important part in Inca
to the 2 of the mountain. No one suppos religion.
pointed straight t there would be “more 10 What do you think were the most important
go with me. The naturalist said tha
interesting. And no one cared to hes and mend them. Anyhow, it 10 Bingham took photos of the ruins. things about the Incas?
eon said he had to wash his clot
but terflies near the river!” The surg 3 to find the Inca capital.
rts of ruins and
was my job to investigate all repo 24th. After a walk
left camp at ten o’clock on July
d only by Sergeant Carrasco, we
So, accompanie d down through the jungle to the
aga left the main road and plunge
of three-quarters of an hour, Arte crossed the roaring rapids at its
itive bridge 4
ban k of the river. Here there was a prim across, six inches at a
my hands and knees and crawled
narrowest part. I confess that I got down on in a 5
bank through dense jungle and
time. Leaving the stream, we now struggled up the The little boy persuaded them to climb up
twenty minutes we had a hard another steep slope.
very steep slope. For an hour and C
minutes reached the bottom of a y was great. The heat was
went on all fours … The humidit ‘Surprise followed surprise in bew
clim b. A good part of the distance we t. I began to 6
ildering succession. We found our
selves standing in 12
were no ruins of any kind in sigh of the ruins of two of the finest
excessive; and I was not in training! There beautiful white granite, the walls
and most interesting structures
in ancient America. Made of
7 right choice.’ contained blocks higher 13
my companions had made spellbound. Each building had onl a man. The sight held me
y three walls and was open on one
walls twelve feet high ... The buil side. The principal temple had
B ding 14 not look as though it ever had a
The men met some Indians who told Sergeant Carrasco that the ruins were a little further along and gave them a little boy could be welcomed here by the prie roof so the sun
sts. I could scarcely believe my sen
to act as their guide. 8 leaving the hut, they strolled across some open ground and went into the forest beyond. stones and estimated that they mu ses as I examined the larger
st weigh ten to fifteen tons each
15
found? Fortunately, I had a good . Would anyone believe what I
‘Suddenly, I found myself confronted with the walls of ruined houses built of the finest quality Inca camera and the sun was shining.
’
stone work. It was 9 to see them because they were partly covered with trees and moss … We
scrambled along through the dense undergrowth and then … without any warning, the boy showed me
a cave, beautifully lined with the finest cut stone. Clearly, it was the work of a master artist. It all
seemed 10 an unbelievable dream. It fairly took my breath away. What could this place
11 ? Why had no one given us any idea of it?’
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