Cover of the textbook Speakout Starter - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 7.4 - The Chilean miners for the textbook Speakout Starter - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Watch the DVD. Was the last man out of the mine an ill miner, the oldest miner or the boss?
  2. Complete the sentences 1-6 with words from the box below. Then watch the DVD again and check your answers.
  3. Work in pairs and look at the sentences. What does the underlined words in each sentence refer to? Then watch the DVD again or read the script and check your ideas.

Answer

a)

The boss

b)

  1. seven
  2. worked
  3. families
  4. rescue
  5. travelled
  6. days

c)

  1. workers, the rescue team
  2. the note
  3. the miners
  4. the miners' families
  5. the trip from the mine to the surface
  6. Luis Urzúa, the last man out