ACTIVITIES

Before Reading

1. Read the back cover and the story introduction on the first

page. Who does Alice meet in Wonderland? Tick the right boxes for the answers.

Alice meets ...

 a caterpillar
 a rabbit
 a cat
 a queen
 a hatter

2. What does Alice do in the story? Tick the right boxes.

Alice ...

 goes to a tea-party
 falls down a rabbit-hole
 talks to a cat
 plays croquet

3. Who will say these words in the story? Can you guess?

 'Oh, where did I drop my gloves?' The rabbit

 'I told you that butter wasn't good for watches! Hatter
 'You can visit either of them. They're both mad.' Cat
 'Off with his head!' The queen
 'How strange everything is today!' Alice

While Reading

Read Chapter 1, and put these sentences in the right order.

3. Alice found a small key and unlocked a very small door.

2. Alice fell down a rabbit-hole.

4. Alice drank something from a bottle and got very small.

6. Alice ate a small cake, which said, 'EAT ME'.

1. Alice saw a White Rabbit and ran after him.

5. Alice tried to climb up a table leg to get the key again.

Before you read Chapter 2, can you guess what will happen? Choose one ending for this sentence.

 When Alice has finished eating the cake, she will...

c) get bigger.

Read Chapter 2. Here are some untrue sentences about it. Change them into true sentences.

1 Alice was soon as small as a mouse.

2 The rabbit dropped the gloves and fan.

3 The fan caused Alice to fan herself because it was too hot

4 Alice fell into the pool of tears

5 While swimming, Alice met a mouse

6 Alice suddenly found herself outside in a garden.

Read Chapter 3. Choose the best question-word for these questions, and then answer them.

What/ Why

1 What did the Caterpillar tell Alice to do?

 To explain herself

2 Why couldn't Alice explain herself?

 Because she was not herself

3 Why did the Caterpillar call Alice back?

 to tell her never to be mad

4 What did Alice have to eat if she wanted to get bigger?

 mushroom

5 Why did the bird call Alice?

 Because they thought she was stealing the eggs

6 Why didn't Alice answer the question about stealing eggs?

 because it was difficult to answer

Read Chapters 4 and 5. Choose the best words to complete this summary of the chapters.

When Alice went into the Duchess's kitchen / bedroom, there was a cat which was screaming /
grinning, and a baby who was screaming / grinning. The Duchess gave / took the baby from / to
Alice, but the baby was / turned into a pig. After that Alice had I spoke a conversation with the
Cheshire Cat and they talked to l about mad people.
At the tea-party the March Hare said, 'Have some coffee / tea, but there wasn't some / any. Later,
he said to Alice, 'You must mean I say what you mean I say.' The Hatter had a watch which showed
I didn't show the time because it was always / never six o'clock there. The tea party always /
never finished, and they just went on moving / moved round the table. Alice thought it was a very
clever / stupid tea-party and went away.

Before you read Chapter 6 (The Queen's game of croquet), can you guess what happens? Tick one
box each time.

1 Alice wins the game of croquet. Yes

2 The Queen wants to cut lots of heads off. Yes

3 Alice meets some more strange animals. No

4 When the game finishes, Alice wakes up. Yes

Read Chapters 6 and 7. Match these halves of sentences.

1 The croquet game was very strange ...

2 The Queen of Hearts got very angry ...

3 Then Alice saw her friend the Cheshire Cat, ...

4 The King didn't like the Cat's head

5 But the executioner couldn't cut off a head ...

6 After the croquet there was a jury trial to find out ...

7 While the Hatter was giving his evidence, ...

8 At the end Alice began to argue with the Queen, ...

9 but only its head appeared, not its body.

10 and then she woke up.

11 because everybody had to use flamingoes for mallets.

12 who stole the tarts made by the Queen of Hearts.

13 and wanted to cut it off.

14 Alice was getting bigger and taller.

15 and sent nearly everybody to prison.

16 if there wasn't a body to cut it off from.

After Reading

1 Here is Alice, telling her sister about her dream. But it is difficult to remember dreams, and Alice
gets a lot of things wrong. Can you find her mistakes and correct them?

ALICE: Well, first I saw a brown (White) rabbit, who took a clock out of his bag, and then I fell
down a mouse (Rabbit)-hole.

SISTER: Oh dear! Were you afraid?

ALICE: Oh no. I fell very quickly, you see. And when I ate or drank things, I got fatter or thinner (tall
or small). I talked to a caterpillar who was sitting under (above) a mushroom, and I also talked to a
Duchess. Oh yes, and there was a baby that turned into a fish (pig). Then I played croquet - but for
balls we had flamingoes, and the mallets were hedgehogs.

SISTER: There were a lot of animals in your dream.

ALICE: Yes, there were. There was also a Cheshire Cat who cried (smiled), and I had lunch (tea
party) with a March Hare and a Hatter

SISTER: A hatter?

ALICE: Yes, you know, a man who buys (sells) hats. He was one of the jurymen (accused) who gave
evidence at the trial

SISTER: What trial was that?

ALICE: Oh, somebody ate (stole) some tarts. But the evidence was all nonsense, and the King of
Hearts wanted to cut people's heads off all the time.

SISTER: Cut their heads off? That's terrible!

ALICE: They didn't really cut people's heads off, you know. They were just a box of cards - made of
wood.

2 Later, Alice wrote a song about her dream. Fill in the gaps

with seven of these words. For each gap, there are two possible words. Which are they, and why is
one of them better? (Think about the sound of the word.)

around, away, building, change, Clubs, Hearts, here, him, house, me, mean, show, there, turn

One day I had a curious dream, but now I ask, “What did it change?

I saw a cat up in a tree,

Who spoke as well as you or me

In a pool of tears, I met a mouse

And then a Hatter outside a away

Having tea with a mad March Hare.

Perhaps they're both still sitting there

And then there was a plate of tarts

Made by the angry Queen of hearts

Her croquet game was hard to play;

The hoops and balls just walked around

The jury trial was also strange,

But then the cards began to turn

into leaves

and I woke up.

3. Here is an illustration for the story by a famous artist, John Tenniel. Find the best place in the
story to put the picture, and answer these questions.

The picture goes on page 33

1 Who are the characters in this picture?

 March Hare, the hatter and Dormouse

2 What are two of them doing?

 We’re trying to put the Dormouse into the teapot

3 Where is Alice at this moment?

 In the wood

Caption: Dormouse into the teapot

4. Can you find the 19 words hidden in this word search? Words go from left to right, or from top
to bottom.

 Rabbit Tea
 Mouse Cat
 Caterpillar Plate
 Player Hedgehog
 Butter Hoop
 Cake
 Dream
 Cup
 Ball
 Tarta
 Pig
 Teapot
 bread

Now put the words from the word search into groups under these three headings. There is one
word which does not belong to any of the groups. What is it?

Croquet Tea time Animals

Player Butter rabbit

Ball Cake cat

Tarta Cup pig

Bread mouse

Tea hedgehog

Plate caterpillar

teapot

dream

The other word is hoop

5 Write a short passage about your dreams. Use some of these notes to help you.

• my dreams / full of / exciting adventures / frightening

things / strange things / don't understand them

• sometimes / always / never / dream about / family /

friends / strangers / animals

• sometimes in a dream/can/can't / fly / move

• always / never / dream about / same / different things

• wake up in the night / remember / next day / forget

 Many times I have strange dreams with things that I have never seen in my life,
others are of adventures such as trips, very few times I have dreamed of my family
but when I dream ugly things it is likely that the next day I will remember it,
however, on many occasions I have had dreams where I forget some parts.