Chapter 12...
Chapter 12:
Key Vocabulary:
foreign
loomed
oil slick
atoll
estuary
extension:
stricken (ship), disaster
Focus Questions
1. What job do both Abel and Stella have? What does this job involve?
2. Why does Abel’s mother say in her letter that she is worried? What is she worried about?
3. What does Abel’s mother believe to be ‘a warning’?
Extension
a. Why do you think the author describes the underwater scene in the Greek islands as a ‘great underwater desert’? What has caused this ‘desert’? What type of figurative language has been used?
b. Can you locate, quote and explain two other examples of figurative language in this chapter?
Summary:
Abel and Stella become marine biologists and travel the world as experts; they dive in all the oceans and seas of the world and are invited on study tours and to lecture. He still feels like a body with a snorkel but realises with a shock that he is now older than his father when he died. He gets a magazine from his mother with a photo of Blueback and she tells him that many boats are coming to the bay to swim with Blueback and for spear fishing; she is worried about the bay. A month later an oil tanker breaks up and comes very close to ruining the whole coastline and bay. As Abel and Stella travel the world he thinks increasingly about his home.
Key Vocabulary:
foreign
loomed
oil slick
atoll
estuary
extension:
stricken (ship), disaster
Focus Questions
1. What job do both Abel and Stella have? What does this job involve?
2. Why does Abel’s mother say in her letter that she is worried? What is she worried about?
3. What does Abel’s mother believe to be ‘a warning’?
Extension
a. Why do you think the author describes the underwater scene in the Greek islands as a ‘great underwater desert’? What has caused this ‘desert’? What type of figurative language has been used?
b. Can you locate, quote and explain two other examples of figurative language in this chapter?
Summary:
Abel and Stella become marine biologists and travel the world as experts; they dive in all the oceans and seas of the world and are invited on study tours and to lecture. He still feels like a body with a snorkel but realises with a shock that he is now older than his father when he died. He gets a magazine from his mother with a photo of Blueback and she tells him that many boats are coming to the bay to swim with Blueback and for spear fishing; she is worried about the bay. A month later an oil tanker breaks up and comes very close to ruining the whole coastline and bay. As Abel and Stella travel the world he thinks increasingly about his home.