The object in the photo – and being described in
the audio by tour guide Josefina Vargas Cardona – is the Muisca
Raft of the Golden Man (La Balsa Muisca de El Dorado, in
Spanish) and can be found at the Gold Museum at Bogotá, Colombia.
It represents a religious ceremony performed on Lake Guatavita (in
present-day Colombia) by a new king of the Muisca people. Together
with four of his chiefs, he threw gold and emeralds into the middle
of the lake as an offering to the god who was believed to live there.
For the ceremony his body was covered in gold dust.
The object of this activity is to give you a task to demonstrate
your understanding of both listening and reading information. At
this first step just listen to the tour guide's explanations
without checking the transcription below,
A visit to a museum (II)
ACTIVITY 406: And now pay attention
again to Josefina's explanations about this beautiful piece of
art. Listen to what she says and fill in the ten missing
blanks. Then check your answers.
It's one of the
of the museum: La Balsa Muisca de El Dorado ...
La Balsa Muisca de El Dorado. It shows the famous
of the Golden Man - El Dorado - which took place
at
Guatavita.
The people of that time
their god lived in the lake. The first thing a new king
had to do was to make an offering to this god.
First,
the new king was
from head to foot in gold and then he went out on a raft.
You can see him there, standing in
the middle, the
figure. And at his feet was a
of gold and emeralds. And he was
by four of his chiefs, who had offerings of their own. So they all
to the centre of the lake and then they offered the god the gold
and emeralds. Actually there must still be some there, but
people have been taking things out of the lake for
.
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