Introduction

This is a reading lesson based on a text about Inca society. Reading can be a very solitary activity, but this lesson has been designed to maximise the amount of communication and interaction among the students, so that they work collaboratively and develop their own opinions about the content of the text.

Topic

Inca society

Level

Intermediate +

Time

60-90 mins

Aims 

• To develop students' ability to take information from a text and form their own opinions about it
• To develop students' ability to deduce the meaning of words in a text

Materials

The lesson plan and student worksheets are available to download below in PDF format.

For more information about this topic you can visit the BBC site:

• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1880611.stm
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1403740.stm
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/586810.stm
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1937001.stm
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2029466.stm

Copyright - please read
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