Cover of the textbook Cutting Edge Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 06 - World culture - A story that rocked the world for the textbook Cutting Edge Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Sarah Cunningham, Peter Moor and Jonathan Bygrave from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Watch the first part of the video and check your answers to exercise 2. Briefly say what happened in your own words.
  2. Watch the second part of the video and check your answers.

Answer

a)

  • In October 2010,33 miners spent 69 days trapped underground when the mine in Chile collapsed.
  • A 700,000-tonne block of rock trapped them almost 700 metres below ground.

c)

  • They rationed food and got water from the machines' radiators.
  • It caused strange behaviour and emotional problems.