Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Before Reading
chApters 4 And 5 while reading
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.
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.
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
Alice was soon as tall as a house.
The White Rabbit dropped his gloves and fan.
The fan made Alice get smaller.
Alice fell into the pool of tears.
While she was swimming, Alice met a mouse.
Alice suddenly found herself outside in a wood.
After Reading
chApter 3 while reading
Activity 1 after reading
What . . .? He told her to explain herself.
Why . . .? Because she wasn’t herself.
Why . . .? Because he had something important to say.
What . . .? One side of the mushroom.
What . . .? An egg thief.
Why . . .? Because it was a difficult question to
answer. / Because she didn’t have an
answer.
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There are 19 mistakes.
Alice: Well, first I saw a white rabbit, who took a
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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activities answers
When Alice went into the Duchess’s kitchen there was a
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 activities (page 44)
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Stage 2
Activity 4 after reading
activities answers
into a pig. Then I played croquet – but for balls we had
hedgehogs and the mallets were flamingoes.
SiSter: There were a lot of animals in your dream.
Alice: Yes, there were. There was also a Cheshire Cat
who grinned (talked) and I had tea with a March
Hare and a Hatter—
SiSter: A hatter?
Alice: Yes, you know, a man who sells hats. He was one
of the witnesses who gave evidence at the trial—
SiSter: What trial was that?
Alice: Oh, somebody stole some tarts. But the
evidence was all nonsense, and the Queen 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 pack of cards – made of
paper.
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cup, bread, hoop, player
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Words in the croquet set: ball, mallet, hoop, player
Note: in the context of this story, students might
also want to include hedgehog in this set.
Words in the teA-time set: teapot, plate, cake, butter,
tart, cup, bread
Words in the AnimAlS set: rabbit, mouse, hare,
caterpillar, pig, cat, hedgehog
The one word that does not belong to any group is
dream.
Activity 2 after reading
The right words are those which rhyme with the last
word in the line above. The second word for each
gap, which is appropriate for meaning but doesn’t
rhyme, is given in brackets.
One day I had a curious dream,
But now I ask, ‘What did it mean?’ (show)
I saw a cat up in a tree,
Who spoke as well as you or me. (him)
In a pool of tears I met a mouse,
And then a Hatter outside a house, (building)
Having tea with a mad March Hare.
Perhaps they’re both still sitting there. (here)
And then there was a plate of tarts,
Made by the angry Queen of Hearts. (Clubs)
Her croquet game was hard to play;
The hoops and balls just walked away. (around)
The jury trial was also strange,
But then the cards began to change (turn)
into leaves
and I woke up.
Activity 5 after reading
Students can write what they like for this. Possible
answer:
My dreams are full of strange things, and I don’t
understand them. I sometimes dream about my family
or my friends, and sometimes about strangers, but I
never dream about animals. Sometimes in a dream I can
fly, and sometimes I can only move very, very slowly. I
always dream about different things. If I wake up in the
night, I remember my dreams, but the next day I always
forget them.
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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.
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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alice’s adventures in wonderland