Literature Alices Adventures in Wonderland Lesson 01 _LEVEL 9_

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Alices Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I (part I)

Hi! Welcome to the Book Passage Discussion lesson!

Todays topic is about Alices Adventures in Wonderland

Have fun learning English!

Activity 1| Vocabulary and Expressions

Directions: Listen and repeat.

Vocabulary

bank [bk] (noun) (in this case) land next to some river, riverside

Lets have a picnic on the bank of the river.

Peep [pip] (verb) take a quick look at something

I peeped into the classroom and noticed her.

start to somebodys feet [strtt smbdisfit] (idiom) give a small jump from surprise or

alarm

This morning, I started to my feet because she told me we were late for school.

burn with [brnw] (phrasal verb) to experience some emotion very strongly (e.g. burn with

anger, burn with impatience, burn with curiosity, etc.)

Im burning with desire to find out what happened!

Pop [pp] (verb) - to come or go quickly, suddenly or unexpectedly

I did not see the rabbit; he just popped out of the grass.

Hedge [hed] (noun) a row of small bushes or trees planted close together, especially when

forming a fence

My grandma likes gardening; she maintains her hedge regularly.

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Activity 2| Article

Directions: Read the book passage aloud with your teacher.

Down the Rabbit-Hole (part I)

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having
nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had
no pictures or conversations in it, `and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice 'without
pictures or conversation?'

So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel
very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the
trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes
ran close by her.

There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so very much out of the
way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, `Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!' (when she thought it
over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it
all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its
waistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it
flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a
waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the
field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the
hedge.

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Activity 3| Question and Answer

Directions: Answer these questions about the book passage.

1. Who is the protagonist (main character) of this book?

2. Try to describe how you imagine the setting of this chapter. Where is Alice?

3. What happened while Alice was thinking about picking the daisies?

4. Try to imagine the White Rabbit. What does he look like?

5. What was so unusual about the White Rabbit?

Activity 4| Summary

Directions: Make a summary of this passage, focusing on the parts that are most interesting to you.

Please explain why you consider those parts interesting.

Activity 5| Free Conversation

Directions: Answer these questions related to this book passage. Have a free conversation about it

with your teacher.

1. Do you enjoy reading books? Have you tried reading books in a foreign language before?

2. In your opinion, what are the benefits of reading?

3. Did you like this book passage? Please explain why you did/didnt like it.

4. What do you think will happen later in the book?

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