Alice in Wonderland

1. The rabbit-hole was like a tunnel in the beginning and then became very narrow and went
suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice did not have a moment to think about stopping herself
before she started falling down a very deep well. Either the well was very deep, or she was
falling very slowly because she had a lot of time of time as she went down, to look
around her and to wonder what was going to happen next.
2. First, she tried to look down to see what everything looked like, but it was too dark to see
anything; then she looked at the sides of the well. She saw that they had a lot of opened lockers
and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures on the walls of the well. She took a
cup from one of lockers as she passed; it was written `ORANGE JAM', but it was empty. She did
not want to throw the cup, as she was afraid of killing somebody, so she looked for an open
space and she put it back in another locker as she went down past it.
3. Then she got bored as there was nothing else to do, so Alice started thinking of her cat, her
sister, her life, her house I wonder how many kilometres are between me and my sister now
she was thinking . Alice was a very good student and she knew a lot of things from her lessons in
the classroom. For the rest of the way she thought only of her sister and her family, how
worried they should be now!
4. She felt that she was very sleepy, and she started to dream that she was walking hand in
hand with her sister and her cat, when suddenly, thump! thump! She woke up: she was sitting on
sand and dry leaves, and the fall was finished.
A. Read the text and number the paragraph headings in the correct order:
a) Thinking of her cat and sister ( )
b) Looking around with curiosity ( )
c) The beginning of the fall ( )
d) The end of the fall ( )
B. Write (T) if the statement is true and (F) if the statement is false.

a) Alice was falling down a well. ( )

b) Alice did not put the cup back into the locker. ( )
c) Alice was a bad student. ( )
d) Her sister and cat were always in her thoughts. ( )

C. Write short answers to the following questions.

a) Where was Alice ? ___________________________________________

b) How was she falling? __________________________________________

c) What did Alice see on the walls of the well? ________________________

d) How was the cup she took from the locker? ________________________

e) Where did Alice learn a lot of things? _____________________________

f) Did Alice fall asleep at the end of this story? _______________________

D) How do you think we should treat naughty children and why?

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 Word List
ALICE FAN MARCH HARE
CATERPILLAR FROG FOOTMAN MOCK TURTLE
CHESHIRE CAT GROW OFF WITH HER HEAD
CROQUET GRYPHON POOL OF TEARS
CURIOUSER JABBERWOCKY QUEEN OF HEARTS
DODO KING OF HEARTS TART
DORMOUSE LEWIS CARROLL TEA
DRINK ME LOBSTER QUADRILLE WHITE RABBIT
DUCHESS LOOKING GLASS WONDERLAND
EAT ME MAD HATTER WOW