Saturday 30 October 2010

LISTENING: What happens now to the San José miners?

Click here to listen the recording(number 69)and then do the exercises. Check your answers in "comments".

1. Choose the correct answer: The podcast is about the _______ and ________ consequences of the event.
Physical/enviromental.
Psychological/experimental.
Physical/mental.
2. Write in the missing words: If you have no sun then you don't have enough _____.This means that you can suffer from _________, which is a _________ disease.
3. Were the miners affected by lack of exercise?
4. What protective equipment were the miners wearing when they came out?
5. Which North American government agency gave advice to the rescuers?
6. What two things do astronaunts and miners have in common?
7. PTSD stands for Post-Traumatic Stress _________________.
8. Which PTSD Symptoms does Jackie not say?
Anger, panic attacks, tearfulness, flashbacks,memory loss, avoiding people, nightmares, sleeplessnes.
9. Getting back to normal life will be a ____________________.
10. Jackie and Richars think the miners are heroes. True/False.
11. They think that the rescue will only bring bad luck for the future. True/False.

1 comment:

  1. Answers:
    1. The podcast is about the physical and mental consequences of the event.
    2. If you have no sun, then you don¡t have enough vitamin D. This means that you can suffer from rickets, which is a bone disease.
    3. No
    4. Sunglasses ( They were wearing other things too but these were not mentioned in the podcast)
    5. NASA.
    6. They are both in a small space and for long periods of time.
    7. PTSD stands for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
    8. Panic attacks/ sleeplessness.
    9. Getting back to normal life will be a challenge.
    10. False.
    11. False.

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