The Inca: A lost society

Inca culture and society

In groups of 3 people brainstorm everything you know about
the Inca

Prepare a web of words or mind map

that you associate with the Inca
culture. Share your web of words in
the Drive folder.
From:
https://gogeometry.com/incas1/inca_empire_tawantinsuyu.
htm
3. Reading comprehension

3.1. Listen to the text and put the facts I will dictate under the heading that they
refer to. Draw a table like this or you can download the table from Moodle.
 4. Dictation
a. 12 million people
b.a religious place
c. a small ethnic group
j. close to the Urubamba River in
d.an army 40,000 men
Peru
e.an army of less than 400 men
k. covered an area of 2,500 miles
f. arrived in 1532
l. didn't know about the wheel.
g. brought many diseases
m. discovered in 1911
h.brutal conquerors
n. had no written language
i. capital city Cuzco in Peru
o. very good at making things
p. very tolerant
Get together in groups of 5.
1. Each one of you has a part of
the text. Read it.
 Then, work together as a
group and put the parts of
the text in the correct order
2. Find the definitions that match
the words in bold in the text.
 The definitions are on strips
of paper.
5. Now work individually. Complete the sentences so they
are true to you. Write them on a shared document on the
class Google Drive.

1. The part of the text that most

surprised me was… because…
Now work individually. Complete the sentences so they are
true to you.

2. I think the conquistadors were able to

defeat the Inca army because…
Now work individually. Complete the sentences so they are
true to you.

3. I think the descendants of the Inca

are / aren't entitled to compensation
because…
Now work individually. Complete the sentences so they are
true to you.

4. I think the conquistadors tore down

the Inca buildings and built their own
because…
Now work individually. Complete the sentences so they are
true to you.

5. I think Machu Picchu wasn't discovered

by the conquistadors because…
Now work individually. Complete the sentences so they are
true to you.

6. I think the best thing about the Inca

was…
Now work individually. Complete the sentences so they are
true to you.

7. I think the worst thing about the

conquistadors was…
Now work individually. Complete the sentences so they are
true for you.

8. I would / wouldn't like to go to Machu

Picchu because…
6. Photo gallery (individual). Share in Drive.

Find the most amazing picture of what you relate

to Inca culture and upload it online to the Google
Drive with a 35-word caption that uses the word
‘amazing’ and that refers at least once to ‘Inca
culture’ and once to ‘I have never …’