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Exercises · Goal 14 · Life Below Water

Glasses to Another World: exercises

Two short exercises on the book. Do them on screen or print them.

Fill the gaps

Choose the missing word for each gap. The words are in the box.

Words to use

  • Abril
  • algae
  • Cousteau
  • diving goggles
  • molluscs
  • Navy
  • Philippe
  • posidonia

For , holidays mean the beach with her grandparents, as surely as Sundays mean macaroni. Her grandmother loves the sea, and sometimes she does things there that make Abril want to disappear: wading in with her cane to fish out a plastic bag, or telling a tourist with a bucket of tiny fish that she has caught enough. This year, while Abril is lying on her towel scrolling through her phone, her grandmother takes the phone in exchange for an old pair of , the most precious thing she owns, and gives her three rules for the sea. Then the story dives back in time to Jacques , a young officer on the French battleship Condorcet. His friend Tailliez offers him the first underwater goggles with space for the nose, and beneath the surface Jacques finds a world beyond anything he imagined. But one day an unknown fishing boat appears where no one ever fishes with nets. What will the two friends find in the ? The story is inspired by Jacques-Yves Cousteau.

Connect the dots

Join each word to its meaning. Tap a word, then tap its meaning.

Words

Meanings