Reading Task 26 Today you will:

• Use retrieval skills to find answers to questions in the text. • Use your previous knowledge to compare and contrast Jacques Cousteau and Jacques Piccard. • Consider the layout of non fiction texts. DNA Predict what you think these objects are, based on what we have been reading:

You will find out the answers in our pages to read today! Log on to Oxford Owl again and find the book. Here are the instructions again: Find these pages (p22 + 23), check your DNA answers and then complete the tasks that follow. Find the answers to the following questions: 1. Who built the world’s first submarine? 2. How was it different to submarines built now? 3. What is a bathysphere? 4. Which word tells us that Jacques Piccard went down into the ocean? What would be the antonym (opposite) to this word? 5. How many metres down did Jacques Piccard dive to? 6. In what year did Japanese teams film fish at a depth of 8km? Answers:

1. Who built the world’s first submarine? A Dutch man called Cornelius Drebbel. 2. How was it different to submarines built now? It was made from wood and had oars that stuck out from the sides. 3. What is a bathysphere? A round metal chamber used for deep sea diving. 4. Which word tells us that Jacques Piccard went down into the ocean? Descended What would be the antonym (opposite) to this word? Ascended 5. How many metres down did Jacques Piccard dive to? 10, 914m 6. In what year did Japanese teams film fish at a depth of 8km? 2008 Draw a double bubble map and use it to compare Jacques Cousteau (from our previous work) to Jacques Piccard. Think carefully about things they have in common and differences there are between them.

Consider: *Where they are from *Important events in their lives *Why they are well-known *What they did for work *Their legacy (what they have left behind) Using a double bubble map, compare Jacques Cousteau (from our previous work) to Jacques Piccard.

Campaigned Filmed a TV Father was to protect the series. a famous environment. explorer.

Possible answers (lots of others!) French Explored Swiss the oceans. Jacques Jacques Cousteau Piccard

Started a Co-invented Dived in foundation the Aqua submarines. to protect lung. the seas. Exit Ticket

Why is the information about Jacques Piccard set out in this way? Exit Ticket

Why is the information about Jacques Piccard set out in this way? The information is clearer this way and it is easier to find specific facts because of the subheadings. It is a fact file, or summary of the main events in Jacques Piccard’s life.