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Machu Picchu

Machu Picchu. Easter Island. The Zhiguli Mountains. 1.Easter Island. Is a beautiful and mysterious place Is located in the Pacific Ocean There was something unusual on this island The island had very few trees or animals There were only a few thousand people

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Machu Picchu

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  1. Machu Picchu

  2. Easter Island

  3. The Zhiguli Mountains

  4. 1.Easter Island • Is a beautiful and mysterious place • Is located in the Pacific Ocean • There was something unusual on this island • The island had very few trees or animals • There were only a few thousand people • There were 887 magnificent stone statues standing proudly all over the island • They weighed about 80 tonnes • There is no information about how they were built and were carved and transported at least 14 miles across the island • There are two versions on this issue • One theory is that a great civilization built the statues and cut down the trees to transport them and when the trees were gone, the animals died out and so did the people • Another theory is that climate change affected the island and its people

  5. Easter Island • Is located in the Pacific Ocean • There was something unusual on this island • The island had very few trees or animals • There were only a few thousand people • There were 887 magnificent stone statues standing proudly all over the island

  6. Mystery of the Zhiguli Mountains

  7. Stone Statues

  8. How they appear

  9. The Explorer Hiram Bingham • Read the information about the explorer Hiram Bingham • Hiram Bingham (1875—1956) had an extraordinary life. He was successively a Protestant pastor, a land surveyor, a museum curator, a university professor, a World War I pilot and an American politician. However, he is best remembered as an explorer, archeologist and discoverer of lost cities. • Why is his name related to Machu Picchu? • He discovered Lost City of the Incas. After his discovery he wrote the book “Lost City of the Incas”. But He wasn't the first man, who discovered Machu Picchu. The first discoverer was from Germany, 44 years before Hiram Bingham. • How do you think he felt when he found the lost city of Machu Picchu? • Use the key words to help you.( amased, bewildered, ecstatic, exhausted, impressed, indifferent, shocked, spellbound) • Pair work of students Ask and answer the questions • Student A • Where did the Incas live? • When did Spanish invaders under Pizarro arrive? • Who did they capture? • What were the buildings of the city covered with? • How did the Incas communicate? • What were the main crops? • What did they use to store mathematical information? • What were temples and palaces made from? • Student B • When did the Incas establish a huge empire? • What countries did it look like? • Who was their ruler? • How many kilometers did they have a system of roads for communication? • What did they use for transport? • What was a luxury for them? • What metals did they make lovely jewellery of? • What did they build from huge stone blocks? • What do you think were the most important things about the Incas?

  10. The Zhiguli Mountains A mysterious place in the Samara region

  11. Mystic Places on our Planet • Урок английского языка • в 11 а классе • Учитель высшей категории МБУ лицея 6 • Горбатенко Светлана Анатольевна • г.о.Тольятти

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