The Mochicans - After Reading

1. You have to mark in the table below which ideas are the most important ones in the text you have just read. You can only tick 5. All ideas below may have appeared in the text but you must only tick the 5 KEY ones. If necessary, read the text again before trying the activity.

Why do this? It is important to distinguish the topic sentences of a reading passage.

1.- In the North of Peru, there are spectacular contrasts betweenfertile valleys and stark deserts
2.- The ruins of Mochican towns are in the outskits of Trujillo
3.- As far as the location of the Moche civilisation is concerned, we may say that they settled in the fertile valleys alongside the riverMoche surrounded by deserted lands
4.- The Mochicans were a developed people in architecture, craftsmanship, agriculture, fishing, trade, sea-faring and metallurgy.
5.- The bricks in their constructions were lined up slightly apart to help dilatation and stand earthquakes.
6.- They made rich anthropomorphic pottery of dazzling beauty with figures of men's faces, shamans, animals and ancestral deities.
7.- Some figures in their pottery were those of animals.
8.- Pottery was made in a serial form.
9.- Some deities were represented with vegetation to show the importance of fertility.
10.- The concept of Death is relevant to them: it was understood in the Mochican culture as the beginning of a new life.
11.- When fishing, fishermen could work either on their own or in twos.
12.- The use of "totora" reed boats of Pre-Columbian design for fishing in this area gives today markets a prehistoric flavour.