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    A True Story: Ceia Coronel English Department Edith Ascencio M

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    This document summarizes a true story about 33 miners who were trapped underground in a collapsed tunnel in Chile for 17 days. Rescuers sent the miners food, music, beds, and medicine through a small tube. NASA helped design a capsule called Phoenix to rescue the miners. The miners received medical training and maintained daily routines to manage their mental and physical health problems while trapped underground awaiting rescue.

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    This document summarizes a true story about 33 miners who were trapped underground in a collapsed tunnel in Chile for 17 days. Rescuers sent the miners food, music, beds, and medicine through a small tube. NASA helped design a capsule called Phoenix to rescue the miners. The miners received medical training and maintained daily routines to manage their mental and physical health problems while trapped underground awaiting rescue.

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    This document summarizes a true story about 33 miners who were trapped underground in a collapsed tunnel in Chile for 17 days. Rescuers sent the miners food, music, beds, and medicine through a small tube. NASA helped design a capsule called Phoenix to rescue the miners. The miners received medical training and maintained daily routines to manage their mental and physical health problems while trapped underground awaiting rescue.

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    CEIA CORONEL ENGLISH DEPARTMENT EDITH ASCENCIO M

    A true story
    1.- Are these events familiar to you? why?.You can use spanish to comment and answer.

    a.The 33 men emerged from a capsule. b.The miners informed they were in a refuge. c.Families celebrated.

    2.- Write a ,b ,c from exercise 1 to match the events described with the pictures below.

    1____ 2____ 3____

    3.- Write the numbers, from column A next to the words from column B, to match with their meaning in
    Spanish.
    A B
    1. tunnel _______bajo tierra
    2. food _______salud
    3. collapse _______ comida
    4. rescue _______ túnel
    5. underground _______colapsar
    6. health _______rescate

    4.- Read the text and check if your were right in exercise 4.

    This story caught people’s attention due to it was a disaster story with a happy end. The accident happened when a
    tunnel collapsed in the San Jose mine in Chile, trapping 33 workers 700 metres underground. For 17 days, they waited in a
    small space with little food and drink. Modern technology helped the miners. Through the 9 cm tube, rescuers sent food,
    music, small beds, and medicine . NASA experts made a capsule called Phoenix to rescue the miners.
    Miners received distance medical training to help those who suffered from skin, teeth or breathing problems. Miners’
    mental health was the most important problem. Miners suffered from anxiety, depression and hallucinations . Miners kept
    healthy with daily routines, balancing work and relaxation. This is a beautiful story of hope.

    5 .- Read the text and find information to complete these sentences in English.
    1.-The story of the miners was popular because it________________________________________________
    2.Through a tube, miners received _____________________________________________________
    3 . NASA helped in the rescue, with a _________________________________________________________

    6 .-Read the text again and complete the chart with three mental health problems and three physical ones

    Mental health problems Physical health problems


    1. 1.

    2. 2.

    3. 3.

    7.- Use verbs from the box below to complete the sentences, transforming them in past events.

    appear suffer work

    1. My father ___________________ in Lota mines.


    2. Around Lota and Coronel , many industries____________________.
    3. Many miners _____________________ accidents due to grisú gas.

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