INTERCHANGE 2 UNIT 11 VIDEO

WARM-UP
What are some historic sites in your home country? What do you know about them? Have you
visited them often?
Have you ever taken a tourist to your country to visit them?
Which sites would you recommend to tourists and why?
What is your favorite site in NYC? Why? Which site havent you visited yet but you would like to in
the future?

VOCABULARY
1. For as long as I can remember.
2. Ancient
3. Trail
4. Glimpse
5. Grueling
6. Donate
7. Empty
8. Literally
9. Access point
10. Weary
11. Amenities
12. Hostel
13. Rent out
14. Book a room
15. Technique
16. Craftsman
17. Insure
18. Rise
19. Make ones way
20. Ruins
21. Hordes
22. Basically
23. Steep
24. Winding
25. Peak
26. Was constructed
27. Was abandoned
28. Was rediscovered
29. Clear away
30. Forest growth
 31. Come across
32. Overgrowth
33. Shrubs
34. Human remains
35. Rope
36. Be comprised of
37. Block
38. Bronze
39. To smooth something
40. Mortar
41. Knife blade
42. emperor
43. Force
44. Theory
45. Purpose
46. Elite
47. Estate
48. Value
49. Surroundings
50. Tower
51. Trek
52. Dotted with
53. Terrace

GUESS THE STORY

Watch the first minute of the story. What is the video about? Who is in the video? Where does the
video take place?

DETAILS
True False
They started their tour in Santiago. ___ ____
They took a bus to Machu Pichu. ___ ____
They arrived before dinner. ___ ____
They found sunglasses. ___ ____
Usually, there arent a lot of tourists at Machu Pichu. ___ ____
They are going to hike up early in the morning. ___ ____
You dont have to book a hotel ahead of time. ___ ____
The town, Agua Calientes, is new. ___ ____
You can buy lots of fruit and vegetables. ___ ____
Its best to get to the ruins early. ___ ____
You can take a train to the top. ___ ____
Machu Pichu was built in the 1200s. ___ ____
Machu Pichu was built by the Spanish. ___ ____
Hiram Bingham rediscovered Machu Pichu in the early 1900s. ___ ____
The Inca left records about how Machu Pichu was built. ___ ____
The Inca used nails to build. ___ ____
Huayna Pichu has an elevator to the top. ___ ____
The brothers want to visit again. ___ ____

WHAT DO YOU THINK?

Do you think ancient ruins should be protected? Why or why not?
If your city needed more housing, would it be ok to build houses on top of ancient ruins? Why or why
not?
What kind of tourist attractions do you like to visit? Museums, zoos, ancient ruins? Why?
Machu Pichu is one of the worlds most famous places to visit? Would you like to go there? Why or
why not?
Here are a few of the most famous places in the world. If you could visit only one, which one would
you choose and why?

Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt

Great Wall of China
 Colosseum in Rome, Italy

Taj Mahal, India

Golden Gate Bridge, San Fransisco, USA

WHAT DID THEY SAY

For as long as I can remember, my brother and I ________ __________ ____________ together,
through good times, bad times and even the very weird times.

Derek and I ______ our Peru adventure in Cuzco. From there we _______the Inca Trail to Machu
Picchu. Finally ____________ just before dinner, we ________ our first glimpse of the ancient site.

To see it this empty right now is really rare. By mid-morning tomorrow, it _____ _____ _________
with literally thousands of people. We ______ _______ _____ ___________ back up in the morning
and see if we can get the sunrise and see what Machu Picchu is like first thing in the morning.

The closest access point to Machu Picchu is a town called Aguas Calientes which is 6 kilometers
away from the ancient city. Here, travel-weary tourists _____ ____________ all the amenities of
home: hotels, hostels, restaurants, even internet cafes. However, it should be noted that large tourist
buses come into town and rent out entire hotels. So, we ________ ____________ ___________ a
room a few weeks ahead or arriving in town on the earliest train to make sure you have a place to
stay the night.
Although Aguas Calientes is a relatively new town, ancient techniques ________ _________
_________ by local craftsmen in the towns ongoing construction. There is also a great open market
in town where local fruits and vegetables are available to ensure you wont run out of energy
exploring Machu Picchu.

Rising early the next morning, Derek and I ______ _______ _________ back up the trail to the
ancient city. These ruins _____ ____________ by approximately 2500 people every day. We
___________ __________ ____________ there early to see as much as we could before the
hordes of visitors arrived. There are basically two ways to get to Machu Picchu from Aguas
Calientes. You can take one of the many buses that leave from the center of town or you can take a
steep, winding trail all the way to the top.

Machu Picchu, which means old peak ____________ ______________ around 1450. However,
as the empire collapsed under the Spanish it ___________ ______________ roughly 100 years
later. Machu Picchu __________ ______________ by the outside world. In 1907 the site ________
________________ by explorer and historian Hiram Bingham with the help of some local residents.
He ______________ the huge job of clearing away hundreds of years of forest growth from the city.

When Hiram Bingham _________ _____________ this site, the overgrowth was unimaginable.
Trees, rocks, shrubs ______________ the entire area, but lucky for him, it looks like the Incans
invented the riding lawn mower.

The construction of Machu Picchu is still a mystery. Human remains _________ ___________ on
the bottom of the mountain but nobody knows how many people died building the city. And nobody
knows if some kind of rope _________- __________ to climb up and down. But we do know that the
Inca were master builders. Machu Picchu _______ ____________ _______ approximately 200
buildings. Most of them ___________ ______________ out of blocks of stone. The blocks _______
____________ with bronze or stone tools and they were smoothed with sand. The blocks fit together
perfectly without mortar. Even a knife blade cant be forced between the stones.

Towering 1200 feet above Machu Picchu lies Huayna Picchu which means young peak in Quechua,
the native Inca language. Derek and I decided to climb Huayna Picchu for a different view of the
ancient city. If you decide to make this trek, you wont be disappointed. The peak is dotted with
temples and terraces that look down on Machu Picchu.

With heavy hearts, we finally left Machu Picchu and took the train back to Cuzco. As our trip came to
an end, Derek and I agreed that Peru is an amazing country and we are sure to be back soon.