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Novelization by are then pursued by angry and in their attempt easystarts to get away, they are separated. Chapter 8: Alan escapes from the Raptors by climbing a tree. That’s when the Kirby’s son, Eric, appears. Eric takes level 2 Alan to a hut and gives him some food. Alan tells Eric that his parents are on the island looking for him. Chapter 9: The morning, Alan and Eric set off level 3 towards the beach to find Eric’s parents. They come to some open ground near a canyon where they hear the sound of a phone ringing. Eric recognizes the sound – it is level 4 his father’s phone. He shouts out for his parents and they are reunited. But the sound of the phone is coming from inside a fearsome – the one that ate Nash! The Summary level 5 dinosaur attacks and they run to a nearby building. They It is eight years after Dr. Alan Grant was first introduced are reunited with Billy who tells them that Udesky has to the live dinosaurs at , where he was been killed by raptors. Billy feels guilty because he took almost killed. Now he works only with the bones of dead two of the raptors’ eggs and this must have made the level 6 dinosaurs. He studies their bones and writes books, but raptors angry. he needs money to continue his work. Chapters 10–13: Eric is captured by a pteranodon and Chapter 1: Thirteen-year-old Eric Kirby is stranded on dropped into the canyon. Billy tries to save him and the island of Isla Sorna after a parasailing accident. He succeeds, but he is caught by the dinosaurs in the process. knows that the island is inhabited by dinosaurs. There’s nothing the others can do to save him and they Chapter 2: Paul Kirby and his wife, Amanda, offer Dr. have to run for their lives. In the canyon, it seems they Grant and his assistant Billy, a lot of money to fly them have lost Paul as well when he falls into the river. over Isla Sorna, an island near Costa Rica, and tell them Chapters 14–15: When Amanda fears that her husband about dinosaurs. Dr. Grant accepts. He doesn’t like the has been killed, she realizes that she still cares for him idea, but Billy says that if they take the money then they very much. He manages to swim to safety and they are can carry on their research. reunited. Eric is happy to see his parents talking together Chapters 3–5: Alan and Billy, and the Kirbys along with again. three other men (Nash, Cooper and Udesky) fly over Isla The terror and excitement continues. With the help of Sorna in an airplane. As they reach the island, Alan learns Paul’s phone, which they find in the dinosaur’s dung, Alan the Kirbys’ true intentions. They want to land on the island manages to phone a friend who gets on to the United in order to look for their son, Eric, who disappeared States government who send airplanes, ships and a boat with Amanda’s new boyfriend in a parasailing accident to the island. Just after Amanda returns the eggs to the two months earlier. Alan tells them that their son can’t mother dinosaur, they are rescued. As they board the possibly still be alive as the island is very dangerous. They boat, they see that Billy has also been rescued and is are attacked and chased by enormous, angry dinosaurs. still alive. They are all very happy to leave Isla Sorna and Cooper and Nash are killed. The others decide to stay on return to their quiet, happy lives. the island and try to find the Kirbys’ son. Background and themes Chapter 6: They soon find the parasail in the trees, but there is no sign of Eric. Then they find some raptor eggs. The films Alan is very afraid and tells everybody to run. directed all three of these very successful Jurassic Park movies, developed from Michael Chapter 7: They arrive at the InGen building. InGen is the Crichton’s bestseller. The character of Dr. Alan Grant, company that created Jurassic Park. They try the phone, played by , is based on Dr. Jack Horner, a but it doesn’t work. Udesky. Alan, Paul, Billy, and Amanda paleontologist who worked as a consultant on the first

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Jurassic Park movie. In fact, the filming of the dig site for some time. These movies leave the audience in little easystarts in Jurassic Park III is actually the site of Jack Horner’s doubt as to whether or not it is a good idea. excavation, where several large Tyrannosaurs and some Hadrosaurs were uncovered. They filmed on location Discussion activities in , and Orlando, Florida. Special level 2 Before reading effects were expensive and amazing. They included the 1 Discuss: Put the students in groups of three or four enormous , which is the largest animatronic and have them answer the following questions. You ever built. It weighed twelve tons and hydraulics were may need to pre-teach the word “sequel” for the last level 3 used to operate it. The special effects crew had to use two questions. Have you seen any of the Jurassic Park films? Do you like films about dinosaurs? Why/why not? 950 liters of oatmeal to simulate spinosaurus dung. The Can you think of any films that have had sequels? Make audiences loved it! a list. Look at your list of films with sequels. Can the level 4 Jurassic Park III continues the thrilling adventures of Dr. second or third film ever be as good as the first? After ten or fifteen minutes, conduct a feedback session Alan Grant, an expert on dinosaurs. In the first of these with the whole class. movies (1993), he visits InGen’s bioengineering dinosaur level 5 2 Pair work: Photocopy as many sets of pages 3, 8, “theme park” on Isla Nublar and nearly gets killed when 12, 15, 16 and 34 as you need. Cut off the captions. the security system is disabled and the dinosaurs escape Put the students into pairs and give each pair a set from their cages. This was followed by The Lost World: of pictures and a set of captions. Ask the students to match the pictures with the captions. When the first level 6 Jurassic Park (1997), when it is revealed that there is pair has finished, ask them to read out the captions another island (Site B) where dinosaurs were bred before and see if the rest of the group agrees. they were transported to Isla Nublar. There the dinosaurs have lived, bred and flourished. In Jurassic Park III (2001) Chapters 1–5 Dr. Grant suspects that the raptors have evolved into a After reading 3 Role play: Write the following names on the board species that can communicate and are now smarter than Dr. Alan Grant, Billy Brennan, Paul Kirby, Amanda Kirby. primates. As a warm-up activity, tell the students to write one short sentence about each of these characters Creating monsters (e.g. Dr Alan Grant knows a lot about dinosaurs.). After In some ways, Jurassic Park can be compared to the story five minutes, conduct a brief feedback session and of Frankenstein, in that it is another story where man then put the students into groups of four. Allocate creates a monster and then finds he cannot control his one of the four roles to each of the students and creation. The horror is unleashed and the world becomes have them imagine the conversation the four characters have in the restaurant on page 5. Each a very dangerous place. character must speak at least once. Give the students The fascination with dinosaurs ten minutes to prepare the conversation. Go around The idea that dinosaurs might one day return to earth the class as they work to help them with vocabulary as necessary. When they have finished, get them to is both exciting and haunting. We only know of these act out the conversation in their groups. One or two enormous creatures from studying their bones. But do of the groups can perform their text in front of the we really want to have first-hand experience of their whole class. strength, power and emotions? In reality, dinosaurs were 4 Pair work: Write the following pairs of characters’ on the earth long before humans appeared, and perhaps names on slips of paper (one pair of characters per slip of paper) – Alan and Mr. Kirby, Amanda and this goes some way to explaining our fascination with them. Ben Hildebrand, Paul and Ben, Eric and Paul. Put Ethics of cloning the students into pairs and give one slip of paper to each pair. Each student in the pair takes the role of Science may one day be able to reproduce creatures that one of the characters on the slip of paper. Working have died out. This would be of great interest to scientists individually the students must think about how their and to people generally, and could help us understand character feels about the character allocated to their more about animals and life itself. Cloning of animals partner. After five minutes preparation time, the such as mice and sheep has already become a reality. students tell each other what they think. Call on some of the pairs to present their ideas to the rest of Some people consider cloning to be a wonderful thing, the class. At this stage, the activity could be turned while others think it an extremely dangerous enterprise. into a whole-class discussion. The debate over the ethics of cloning has been raging

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5 Debate: On page 5, we learn that “Alan’s work was 11 Guess: Put the students into pairs. Ask them to more important than a wife or children.” Is having a imagine what is going to happen to Eric now he has easystarts good career more important than having a family? been caught by the pteranodon. Each pair should Divide the class into two equally-sized groups. Tell note down their ideas so that they can read them out them that they are going to have a debate on the to the whole class during the feedback session. level 2 above question. Write the following statement on the board: This house believes that it is more important Chapters 11–15 to have a good career than to have a family. Regardless 12 Write: Divide the class into five equally-sized groups. of their personal views, allocate to one half of the To each of the groups, allocate one of the following level 3 class the role of arguing in favor of the statement, characters: Alan, Amanda, Billy, Eric, Paul. Tell the and to the other half, allocate the role of arguing students to imagine that when they get home after against the statement. Each student must write least their adventures, each of the characters writes an one sentence to support the position of their group. entry in their diary, telling the story of one or more level 4 Then proceed with the debate, by asking individual of the last five chapters from their own point of students to read out their sentences. At the end of point of view. Now divide each of the five groups the debate have the class vote on the question. into smaller groups of two or three and have them 6 Role play: Put the students into groups of four and write the diary entry. When they have finished, call level 5 ask them to act out the conversation between Alan, upon some of the students to read out their texts to Paul, Amanda and Billy which starts at the bottom the whole class. of page 10 when Alan asks them why they brought Extra activities him to Isla Sorna. Help the students with their level 6 13 Research: Tell the students to use the Internet and/ pronunciation and intonation. Give them enough time or the library to find out as much as they can about to learn their lines and ask one or two of the groups the dinosaurs mentioned in the story. You might like to perform the scene in front of the rest of the class. to give the students a list of questions to help orient 7 Discuss: Tell the students to re-read Amanda’s their research: e.g. When did the rex explanation on page 12 of how her son became lost live? Where did it live? What did it eat? How big was it? in Jurassic Park. Then write the following question When was it discovered? When did it become extinct? on the board: Was Amanda right or wrong to let her Where can you see a skeleton of a T. rex? son go with Ben? Why/why not? Working individually, 14 Role play: Put the students in pairs. Tell them to the students write down their answers in one imagine they are television journalists. They are going sentence. Then put the students into groups of four to interview one of the characters in the story. Give and tell them to exchange their views. Conduct a the pairs three minutes to decide which character feedback session with the whole class at the end. will they choose and why. Conduct a brief feedback Chapters 6–10 session, asking each pair to say who they are going to 8 Pair work: Write the following words on the board: interview. Then tell the students to prepare a list of a backpack, parasail, raptor eggs, InGen. Put the students maximum of eight questions they would like to ask. into pairs and tell them to discuss why these things After few minutes, ask the students to act out the are important in the story. After a few minutes, interview – with one member of each pair playing create new groups of four by putting two pairs the journalist and the other playing the chosen together. The students now compare their answers character. Tell them to practice it a few times and with those of the other pair. then to switch roles. Finally ask different pairs to 9 Discuss: Put the student into groups of three or four. perform their interview in front of the whole class. Tell them they have to give each of these chapters 15 Write: For homework, the students write a short (i.e. chapters 6–10) a different, better title. The new review of the story. Their text should have the one titles can be statements, questions or simply phrases. of the following titles: Why you should (or should not) Give the students ten or fifteen minutes to prepare read Jurassic Park III. Tell them to include the and then call on each group to present its suggestions. following points in their text: a brief summary of the Write them up on the board. At the end of the story; a brief description of the main characters; the activity, conduct a vote for the best new title of each things they liked about the story; the things they chapter. didn’t like about the story. 10 Role play: In pairs, students write out the dialog between Alan and the Billy on pages 24–25 as if it were a stage play. Then each pair performs the dialog until they can do it without reading the text.

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