Alex Nuller - Michael’s Ark

The biggest University in Africa

With highest honours (Latin)

A famous scientist that lived 150 years ago.

I still don’t know everybody that lives here.

Living

Plant-eating

aware

not worry about because it’s not important

assume that it’s true

Asleep.

Mammalian – related to mammals, animals that feed their young with milk like camels, horses, moose and many others do.

Can’t do it.

Think about it.

Ability to float

A little bit of intelligence.

“Square rigged’ means that the spars make a right angle with the masts. “Gaff rigged’ means the main sail angles away from the main mast.

Where the sails are square shaped, or rectangular shaped.

I don’t want to be blamed if there’s a problem.

Argument

A yardarm is a horizontal pole on a mast that the sail hangs from.

Study of the earth, and how to know where you are by looking at the earth or the sky.

Tools you use to check the position of the sun, moon and stars.

How to maneuver sails on a ship to best use the force of the wind.

Little balls with a strong smell that people put in cupboards to keep moths away.

The sailors’ name for the devil.

Different types of rigging on a ship.

A device to pull things up using ropes that can be opened on the side.

A big spike used to work lines on a ship.

What the wolf likes to eat.

Make sure that he doesn’t have to worry.

Famous naval battles that took place very many years ago.

Wolf confused top French award “Legion of Honor”. But it’s unlikely that he ever got it

Wolf doesn’t eat meat.

Sailors say that whistling on board ship is bad luck, except when there’s no wind; then you have to whistle to make the wind come up.

Like when a black cat crosses your path, or walking under a ladder.

Like an animal that preys on other animals.

Let it be! I have spoken!

A “point” is 1/32 of the distance around a circle. “Port” means left. Turning “two points to port” means turning left 22.5%.

A “jib” is a triangular sail that is attached to the bow of a brig.

“Starboard” is the right side of the ship, just like “port” is the left side.

To steer the ship.

Up in the sails.

The lines between the sails and the deck.

The assistant captain on sailing ships in the old days.

A wise comment.

The kitchen on a ship.

The “mainsail’ is the largest sail. The “mainbrace’ is a big line used to move the mainsail into the wind.

The bottom of the sea, where drowned sailors go.

A triangle-shaped sail in the front of the ship.

Turn around the ship

The “boom’ is a mast connected to the bottom of a sail. It can swing around and knock you over if you change course suddenly.

A weatherman.

We need to do things before something bad happens.

Fears.

A special stone shaped like a brick that was used to scrub wooden decks on old ships.

Trial.

Islands in the southern Caribbean Sea.

The captain of the British ship Bounty . The crew mutinied and put the captain out to sea in a life boat.

Stop your useless talk.

Tie up the mainsail so only half of it is open.

Rocks under the water level that the ship may hit.

100 fathoms, or about 600 yards.

Close the doors and portholes.

The surface of the ground.

An albatross is a big sea bird. A thieves cat is a big knotted whip used to punish sailors in the old days.

Wolf-like

That wolf really did eat meat.

That Wolf didn’t think about the tides.

An animal that carries things on its back.

“Dromedaries” are one-humped camels that live in the Middle East and Africa. “Bactrian Camels” are two-humped camels that live in Central Asia

There were no holes in the ship.

“Can we please talk about it later?”

On a ship, a “line’ is made out of nylon. A “rope’ is made out of wire.

A group of trees growing in the middle of a field.

Plants like grass that grow in swampy places.