Dear Students

My experience has proved to me that effective language learning cannot be achieved successfully without an authentic communicative setting. Internet provides it. The use of internet in our schools started very late and access is still limited. I realize how useful learning English can become if our students have full access to the English-speaking world. I hope that through this weblog, I will help my students to communicate effectively with me, with each other and with the rest of the world.

Friday, December 22, 2006

Gateway Cultural Awareness

UNIT 1
The World's Cultural Heritage:
1-Machu Picchu:
Old Peak; sometimes called the "Lost City of the Incas" is a well-preserved pre-Columbian Inca ruin located at 2,430 m on a mountain ridge. Machu Picchu is located above the Urubamba Valley in Peru, about 70 km northwest of Cuzco. Forgotten for centuries by the outside world, although not by locals, it was brought back to international attention by Yale archaeologist Hiram Bingham who rediscovered it in 1911, and wrote a best-selling work about it.

Here are some pictures about Macho Picchu: