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NCM Video Conferencing

Coal Mining Lesson

Coal-miners talking to the children
Coal-miners talking to the children

Below are highlights from the Video Conference which took place at Great Cotes Primary School with the National Coal Mining Museum of England.

Each clip is a question asked by the children to which the miners give an answer.

To view the movies, you can download them localy to your computer by right clicking the appropriate link and selecting 'save as...' from the menu, or if your browser has the correct plugin installed, you can simply click the link and let the movie play in your browser.

Welcome, How long have you been a miner?

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21 M

What do you wear?

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23 M

What time do you start work?

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10.7 M

What do you like about being a miner?

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4.3 M

What don't you like about been a miner?

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7.8 M

Do any of your family work down a mine?

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6.7 M

When have the miners striked?

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11.6 M

What was life like during the strike?

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11.3 M

As coal mines close, what do the miners do?

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14.2 M

Would you still like to mine coal today?

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13.5 M

What do you think will happen to mines in the future?

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18.5 M

Do you get paid much money?

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4.7 M