Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Before Reading
before reading activities (page 44)
Activity 1 before reading
Alice meets . . .
a caterpillar, a rabbit, a king, a hare, a cat, a queen,
a hatter
Activity 2 before reading
Alice . . .
goes to a tea-party, falls down a rabbit-hole, talks to
a cat, plays croquet
Activity 3 before reading
Encourage students to speculate and make guesses
but do not tell them the answers. There are clues
to the answers for numbers 1, 3 and 4 in the story
introduction and the back-cover text.
1 The White Rabbit.
2 The Mad Hatter.
3 The Cheshire Cat.
4 The Queen of Hearts.
5 Alice.
While Reading
chApter 1 while reading
The correct order is: 5, 2, 1, 3, 6, 4.
Before reAding chApter 2
Encourage students to speculate and make guesses
but do not tell them the answer. They will find out
as they read that the answer is c.
chApter 2 while reading
1 Alice was soon as tall as a house.
2 The White Rabbit dropped his gloves and fan.
3 The fan made Alice get smaller.
4 Alice fell into the pool of tears.
5 While she was swimming, Alice met a mouse.
6 Alice suddenly found herself outside in a wood.
chApter 3 while reading
1 What . . .? He told her to explain herself.
2 Why . . .? Because she wasn’t herself.
3 Why . . .? Because he had something important to say.
4 What . . .? One side of the mushroom.
5 What . . .? An egg thief.
6 Why . . .? Because it was a difficult question to
answer. / Because she didn’t have an
answer.
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chApters 4 And 5 while reading
When Alice went into the Duchess’s kitchen there was a
activities answers
cat which was grinning, and a baby who was screaming.
The Duchess gave the baby to Alice, but the baby
turned into a pig. After that Alice had a conversation
with the Cheshire Cat and they talked about mad
people.
At the tea-party the March Hare said, ‘Have some
coffee,’ but there wasn’t any. Later, he said to Alice,
‘You must say what you mean.’ The Hatter had a watch
which didn’t show the time because it was always six
o’clock there. The tea-party never finished, and they just
went on moving round the table. Alice thought it was a
very stupid tea-party and went away.
Before reAding chApter 6
Encourage students to speculate and make guesses
but do not tell them the answers. They will find out
as they read that the ‘yes’ answers are numbers 2
and 3.
chApters 6 And 7 while reading
1+11 The croquet game was very strange because
everybody had to use flamingoes for mallets.
2+15 The Queen of Hearts got very angry and sent
nearly everybody to prison.
3+9 Then Alice saw her friend the Cheshire Cat, but
only its head appeared, not its body.
4+13 The King didn’t like the Cat’s head and wanted
to cut it off.
5+16 But the executioner couldn’t cut off a head if
there wasn’t a body to cut it off from.
6+12 After the croquet there was a jury trial to find
out who stole the tarts made by the Queen of
Hearts.
7+14 While the Hatter was giving his evidence, Alice
was getting bigger and taller.
8+10 At the end Alice began to argue with the
Queen, and then she woke up.
After Reading
Activity 1 after reading
There are 19 mistakes.
Alice: Well, first I saw a white rabbit, who took a
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watch out of his pocket, and then I fell down a
rabbit-hole.
SiSter: Oh dear! Were you afraid?
Alice: Oh no. I fell very slowly, you see. And when I
ate or drank things, I got bigger (taller) or smaller
(shorter). I talked to a caterpillar who was sitting
on (on top of) a mushroom, and I also talked to a
Duchess. Oh yes, and there was a baby that turned
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 into a pig. Then I played croquet – but for balls we had Activity 4 after reading

hedgehogs and the mallets were flamingoes. Words across: rabbit, plate, mouse, hare, cake, ball,
SiSter: There were a lot of animals in your dream. dream, teapot, caterpillar
Alice: Yes, there were. There was also a Cheshire Cat Words down: mallet, butter, tart, pig, cat, hedgehog,
who grinned (talked) and I had tea with a March cup, bread, hoop, player
Hare and a Hatter— R R A B B I T H P L A T E P
activities answers

SiSter: A hatter?
P M O U S E C E M H A R E L
Alice: Yes, you know, a man who sells hats. He was one
of the witnesses who gave evidence at the trial— M B C A K E A D B X C B G A

SiSter: What trial was that? A U B A L L T G F O C R H Y

Alice: Oh, somebody stole some tarts. But the L T A Q T D R E A M U E O E
evidence was all nonsense, and the Queen of Hearts
L T L I A P W H E D P A O R
wanted to cut people’s heads off all the time.
E E Y Z R I E O H F T D P E
SiSter: Cut their heads off? That’s terrible!
Alice: They didn’t really cut people’s heads off, you T R T S T G F G T E A P O T
know. They were just a pack of cards – made of O J E C A T E R P I L L A R
paper.
Words in the croquet set: ball, mallet, hoop, player
Activity 2 after reading
Note: in the context of this story, students might
The right words are those which rhyme with the last also want to include hedgehog in this set.
word in the line above. The second word for each Words in the teA-time set: teapot, plate, cake, butter,
gap, which is appropriate for meaning but doesn’t tart, cup, bread
rhyme, is given in brackets. Words in the AnimAlS set: rabbit, mouse, hare,
One day I had a curious dream, caterpillar, pig, cat, hedgehog
But now I ask, ‘What did it mean?’ (show) The one word that does not belong to any group is
I saw a cat up in a tree, dream.
Who spoke as well as you or me. (him)
In a pool of tears I met a mouse, Activity 5 after reading

And then a Hatter outside a house, (building) Students can write what they like for this. Possible
Having tea with a mad March Hare. answer:
Perhaps they’re both still sitting there. (here) My dreams are full of strange things, and I don’t
And then there was a plate of tarts, understand them. I sometimes dream about my family
Made by the angry Queen of Hearts. (Clubs) or my friends, and sometimes about strangers, but I
Her croquet game was hard to play; never dream about animals. Sometimes in a dream I can
The hoops and balls just walked away. (around) fly, and sometimes I can only move very, very slowly. I
The jury trial was also strange, always dream about different things. If I wake up in the
But then the cards began to change (turn) night, I remember my dreams, but the next day I always
into leaves forget them.
and I woke up.
Activity 3 after reading
The picture goes on page 26.
1 The March Hare, the Hatter, and the Dormouse.
2 The March Hare and the Hatter are trying to put the
Dormouse into the teapot.
3 Alice is walking away from the tea-party into the
wood.
Possible caption:
• The March Hare and the Hatter are trying to put
the Dormouse into the teapot.
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If students want to be more imaginative, they might

think of things like this:
• The Dormouse is too big for the teapot.
• They tried to put the Dormouse into the teapot, but
the teapot was too small.
• The March Hare and the Hatter are mad! Why
do they want to put the poor Dormouse into the
teapot?

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