Fun Facts about the mining industry

Fun facts about:

The mining industry in Mexico

Listening practice

Exercise 1: Listen to the audio and unjumble the sentences.

A. like gold, coal Minerals copper, silver, and _____________________________ B. many are day in different ways. used every _____________________________ C. where But where are these minerals? _____________________________ D. they in Well, the ground. are buried _____________________________ E. extracted they are and Mining is how transformed ______________________________ F. so that they are useful for people. ______________________________

Exercise 2. Listen to the recording and organize the words in the box into a paragraph.

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Excersise 3: Fill in the missing information.

1. ____ a headframe? For 2._____ centuries, headframes, like the giant 3._________ in the picture, popped up in gold mines 4._________; headframes were used to 5.__________ from the bottom 6. __________of the mineshaft.

Exercise 4: Number the lines in the correct order 1-4.

___where you can stand up and see ___there is a high-resistant glass ___below this headframe, next to the steps, ___the 400-meter deep mineshaft.