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After you watch
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Roleplay
an interview with Nilda
Work in pairs.
Student A: You are a journalist for
National
Geographic
. Use the ideas below to prepare
questions to ask Nilda.
Student B: You are Nilda. Look at the ideas below.
Think about what you are going to say to the
journalist.
r IPX UIF DPPQFSBUJWF TUBSUFE
r XIBU JT TQFDJBM BCPVU UIF DPPQFSBUJWF
r XIBU UIF XPNFO IBWF MFBSOFE UP EP
r XIBU UIF XPNFO EP XJUI UIF NPOFZ UIFZ NBLF
r IPX MJGF JT DIBOHJOH JO UIF WJMMBHF
Act out the interview. Then change roles and
repeat the interview.
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At the end of the video, the narrator says: ‘Many
threads together are stronger than one alone.’ How
is this true for the women of Chinchero? Do you
think this is always true?
8
Work in groups. Ask and answer the questions
with other people in your group. Note down their
answers. Then report the results to the rest of the
class.
1 Do you like the clothes the women make?
2 Have you ever worn traditional clothes? When?
3 Do your clothes express who you are?
4 Which is more important to you: brand or
colour and design?
Before you watch
1
Work in groups. Look at the photo and discuss
these questions.
1 Where do the people come from?
2 What are they doing?
3 Why are they doing this?
2
Complete the summary with these words.
business cooked farming self-sufficient
shawls traditions village visitors weavers
The video is about a group of women
1!
in a small
2!
in Peru. Traditionally in
this village women
3!
, looked after the
children and made cloth, and men farmed. But
now
4!
is not enough to support a family
and some women have formed a new type of
5!
: a weavers’ cooperative. The women
use traditional methods to weave blankets,
6!
and ponchos which they sell to
7!
. In this way, they preserve their
identity and
8!
but also make some
money which helps them become
9!
.
While you watch
3
Watch the video and check your answers from
Exercise 2.
4
Watch the video again. Put the extracts in the
order you see and hear them.
a Farming has long been a tradition in
Chinchero.
b Now, in Chinchero, weaving isn’t just a
tradition. It’s a way to make money and live
well.
c A few people from the village … catch the
sheep and prepare the knife.
d I learned when I was in the third grade of
school.
e The methods they use are traditional, but
these villagers are part of something new.
f They want to keep the Peruvian weaving
traditions alive.
5
Watch the video again and answer the questions.
1 Who is Nilda Cayanupa?
2 Why did she decide to start the cooperative?
3 What was her dream?
4 How did one man get involved in the weaving?
5 How much money can the women make?
blanket
(n)
/!bl"#k$t/
a covering that keeps you warm in bed
cloth
(n)
/kl%&/
material used for making clothes, etc.
cooperative
(n)
/k'(!%pr't$v/
a business or organisation
owned by the people who work in it and who all profit
from it
poncho
(n)
/!p%nt)'(/
a traditional South American coat
made from a single piece of cloth, with a hole in the
middle for the head
self-sufficient
(adj)
/self s'!f$)nt/
able to provide everything
you need for yourself
shawl
(n)
/)*+l/
an article of clothing worn around the
shoulders
spin
(v)
/sp$n /
twist fibres of a material into thread to make
cloth
thread
(n)
/&red/
a long thin line of fibre (British)
weave
(v)
/wi+v/
make cloth by crossing threads over and
under each other
weaver
(n)
/!wi+v'/
a person who weaves
wool
(n)
/w(l/
a material made from the hair of sheep and
other animals
yarn
(n)
/y,+n/
a long thin line of fibre (American)
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Unit 1
Colour