ALICE IN WONDERLAND by Lewis Carroll (A2–A2+)
PREPARATION
1 Look and the book cover and answer the questions:
see
1 What can you see in the picture?
2 Describe the girl.
think
3 Who do you think she is?
4 How does the picture make you feel?
wonder
5 What do you think the picture means?
6 The picture is like something from a dream. Do dreams
ever mean something?
Alice gets taller
Then she saw a little box under the table. She opened it. There was a cake inside. On it, she
saw the words, ‘EAT ME’.
‘Yes, I will eat it,’ Alice said. ‘Perhaps I’ll get bigger. Or perhaps I’ll get smaller.’
She ate some cake. ‘Will I go up or down?’ she wondered. ‘Oh! I’m getting taller and taller!’
5 She looked down. ‘Goodbye, feet! Who will put your shoes on for you now?
I can’t do it! I’ll give you some new shoes for Christmas. I’ll have to send
them to you!’
In a short time, Alice was more than three metres high.
‘I want to go into that garden!’ she thought. She took the little
10 key from the table. Then she went to the door and opened it.
But she was too big and couldn’t go through it. She sat down and
began to cry. Because she was very big, her tears were very big too.
‘Alice, stop it this minute! Don’t cry!’ she said. But she couldn’t
stop the big tears and after a time there was water everywhere.
15 Then, she heard the sound of small feet. She looked down and there
was the White Rabbit again. He had his best clothes on, and in one
hand he had a white hat.
‘Oh, the Duchess!’!’ he said. ‘She’ll be angry with me because I’m late!’
Alice wanted to ask him for help. ‘Please, Sir – ’ she said very politely.
politely
20 The White Rabbit jumped and ran out of the room.
‘Am I different?’ she wondered. ‘I was Alice yesterday, but everything is
different today. Perhaps I’m not me now. So who am I? That’s the question.’
GLOSSARY
tear n. water that falls from your eyes when you’re sad
Duchess n. higher than a Lady but lower than a Queen
politely adv. in a nice way
LITERATURE LESSON
COMPREHENSION
2 LL1.01 Listen and read the text. Are the statements
true (T), false (F) or not given (NG)?
1 Alice is hungry.
2 Alice doesn’t know what will happen when she
eats the cake.
3 Alice can’t open the door to the garden.
4 This is not the first time Alice sees the White
Rabbit.
5 The Duchess is always angry with the White
Rabbit.
6 Alice is not sure where she is.
ACTIVE INVESTIGATION
3 The story of Alice in Wonderland is all a dream Alice is
having. Many people have these dreams. What do you
think they mean? Find out what other people think they
mean.
1 you are falling
2 you are flying
3 your teeth are falling out
SPEAKING
4 Work in small groups. Do you have the same answers
to Ex 3? What other dreams are common? What do you
think these mean?
CLIL CONNECTION
Literature
5A Alice in Wonderland was one of the first children’s
books. Lewis Carroll wrote it in 1865. Find out about
these other very famous children’s books.
Peter Pan The Princess and the Goblin
The Wind in the Willows
1 Who wrote them and when did they write them?
2 What are the stories about?
B What are the most important children’s books now?
Why are they important?
