Plane Crash in Colombia – level 2

06-12-2016 07:00

Seventy-two passengers and 9 crew were on a flight from Brazil to Colombia. Some of the passengers were members of the Chapecoense Football Team. They were going to Medellin.

The plane crashed and 76 people died. Amazingly, there were a few survivors, two of them being members of the club.

The small club is from Chapelco in Brazil, and this was the first time that it reached the final of a major South American club competition.

People are shocked by the tragedy. Real Madrid had a minute’s silence for the people who died in the crash.

Difficult words: reach (if you reach something, you get there), major (important), competition (a game).

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