老师：Hello, everyone. Welcome to today's English class. Our topic today is traveling around. In this class, you will read and tell the differences between an encyclopedia entry and a travel brochure. You'll also make a brief introduction to a country. You will have chances to recommend different tours to this country for different tourists, using powerful, expressive and impressive language.
老师：You may wonder, what's this country? I'm going to give you seven different clues, one by one. Let's see who can guess the country's name the fastest. Are you ready? Here we go. It has great ancient civilization. There are coasts, Highlands and jungles. It's in South America, part of the world's largest rainforest, the Amazon rainforest is in this country. It has the world's longest mountain range, the Andes Mountains. The Inca empress lived there. It was once the center of ancient Inca empire. Its capital is Lima.
老师：You are right. This country is Peru. If you didn't get it right, don't worry. After this class, I believe you'll know more about this country. Everyone, would you like to watch a video? Yes. This video is titled welcome to Peru. Please watch and take notes. Ready? Let's begin.
学生：Welcome to Peru. Peru is a country on the Pacific coast of South America with three main areas, narrow, dry, flat land running along the coast, the Andes mountains and the Amazon rainforest.
老师：What did you see in this video, everyone? Do you know how to read this place names correctly? Please read after me. The Andes Mountains, the Amazon rainforest, Cusco City, Machu Picchu Lake, Titicaka. Very good pronunciation. Keep it up.
老师：Just now we watched a video. Where do you usually see this kind of video? On a travel website, on TV. Very good. What are other sources from which we can find more information about Peru? Thank you for sharing. We can know some information for our friends or their blogs. We can read books such as encyclopedia or travel guidebooks. There are also posters, newspapers and magazines for us to get information. We can even get travel brochures from travel agents. So there are variety of sources for us to get information about a country, a city or a place.
老师：Next, let's look at two texts. They are on page 26 and page 27. Please look through these two texts about Peru and tell me what types of text they are, encyclopedia or brochure. Have you finished reading? Can you tell me which text is an encyclopedia entry? The first one? Very good. And the second one is a travel brochure. How did you know it? How did you recognize text types according to titles? Very good. Let's take this text, for example. We can see titles like Travel Peru, Amazon, Rainforest Tour, Machu Picchu Tour. Any other clues? Yes, the pictures, charts or the design. Any oth
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