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Narrator
Hello! Alice is having some very curious adventures at the bottom of a rabbit hole. She drank a drink that made her very small indeed. But she wants to grow bigger so that she can reach the key that will unlock the tiny door to a beautiful garden. After eating some cake she found in a little glass box, Alice started to feel something …

Alice
Curiouser and curiouser! I'm growing! My feet are so far away. Goodbye feet! How will I put my shoes and socks on, I wonder? Ouch!

Narrator
Alice grew so big that her head hit the ceiling! It was easy to reach the table now. She picked up the tiny key and rushed to the door. But in her excitement, she forgot something again…

Alice
Ohhhh… this is hopeless! I'm much too big for this door now! I'll never get into the garden! I can only look through the door with one eye! Oh…

Narrator
Alice was over nine feet tall, and when a girl that big cries, the tears are big too. Alice cried and cried until half the hall was filledwith a salty pool of tears. After a time, Alice heard a little pattering of feet in the distance. She dried her eyes to see what was coming.

White Rabbit
Oh! I'm late! I'm so very late! I was told to be early and I'm going to be late. The Duchess will be waiting. Oh my! Oh my! She will be so very angry with me! Oh my!

Narrator
The sight of The White Rabbit, splendidly dressed in his best clothes, and carrying a large fan and a pair of white leather gloves was enough to stop Alice's tears.

Alice
If you please, sir…

White Rabbit
Oh!! Oh my!

Alice
Don't go! I won't hurt – Oh dear! You've dropped your gloves… But look: what a pretty fan. And crying is such hot work. Oh, that's better. Oh dear… how strange everything is today. Yesterday things were normal. But today I'm not sure if I am the same girl who woke up this morning. But, if I'm not the girl who woke up this morning, the question is, "Who am I?"

Narrator
Alice fanned herself while she talked. She felt much cooler. But after a minute or two, something started happening.

Alice
Oh: Here's that feeling again.

Narrator
Then something kept happening. Alice kept fanning herself.

Alice
I don't believe it. I must be… I am! I'm growing smaller again. Smaller than the table. Hello feet! It's good to see you again.

Narrator
Soon Alice was smaller than ever. She was still shrinking and shrinking and she didn't know why.

Alice
Oh dear - I'm getting very small. Oh… I'm getting much too small! Oh dear - I shall fade away altogether! Ohh…! The fan? The fan!

Narrator
Just in time. Alice threw the fan on the floor, so she wouldn't get any smaller.  

Alice
That was a lucky escape! But now I'm small enough to get into the garden!

Narrator
Poor Alice! There she stood at the little door - but it was locked again. And there was the little key, back in its place, out of reach, on the table.

Alice
Oh not again! This is hopeless. I'll never get that key now. I so badly wanted to see the garden. And things are worse than ever - I've never been so small as this in my life. Never!

Narrator
Things were as bad as ever. And they were about to get worse...

Alice
Ohhh!

Narrator
And poor little Alice fell into a pool of her own tears. Luckily, she knew how to swim. But she wasn't the only one who had fallen into the pool. Next time, Alice meets a dodo, tries to make friends with a mouse, and joins in a very, very curious race. Goodbye.

Choose the best synonym for each bold word or phrase.

a. Alice was feeling hopeless.

What does hopeless mean?

The White Rabbit was dressed splendidly.

What does splendidly mean?

 • A) in a messy way

 • B) in a beautiful and fancy way

 • C) in a simple way

Grammar – Tense & Preposition Questions

a. Choose the correct tense:

Why is the past simple used in this sentence:

“Alice grew so big that her head hit the ceiling.”

What does it tell us?

 • A) It describes a past action that is finished.

 • B) It shows something that is happening now.

 • C) It is about the future.

b. Choose the correct preposition:

She looked ___ the door with one eye.

 • A) at

 • B) through

 • C) for

 Why couldn’t Alice go into the garden the first time?

. Why did Alice throw the fan away?

What made Alice stop crying? 

 How did Alice feel when she realized she couldn’t go into the garden again? Why?

 Why do you think Alice cried so much that she made a pool? What does this tell us about her emotional state?

 Imagine you are Alice. What would you do differently to get into the garden?

Why do you think the fan made Alice smaller? What kind of magic or logic do you think works in Wonderland?

Alice asks herself, “Who am I?” What do you think she means? Has something like that ever happened to you, when you felt different than usual  

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Alice
Ouch! Who's there?

White Rabbit
Oh, my ears and whiskers! How late it's getting!!

Alice
Wait! Please sir, wait a moment!

Narrator
The White Rabbit ran down a long tunnel. Alice ran after him. But when she reached the end of the tunnel she found only a long hall with doors all the way round. Alice tried to open the doors – but they were all locked. Then she saw a table with a tiny key on it.

Alice
These doors are all too big. There must be a smaller door somewhere. I wonder… hmmm, let me look behind this little curtain… ooh! a tiny little door! Let me try the key… What a beautiful garden! But how can I visit it? The door is so tiny – I can't even fit my head through! Oh! It's no use. I wish I could fold up like a telescope! Wait a minute… what's this? It certainly wasn't here before. A bottle – I wonder what it is? Let me see the label. Hmmm: Drink me… Oh! Oh! Ohhhhhh!!!! What a curious feeling! I'm folding up like a telescope!

Narrator
And so she was! Alice got smaller and smaller until she was small enough to fit through the door. But she'd forgotten something …

Alice
The key!

Narrator
Alice was too small to reach the key on the table. She tried and tried to climb up the table leg but it was too slippery. When she had tired herself out with trying, poor little Alice sat down and cried.

Alice
It's no use. I can't reach the key, so I can't get into the garden and that's that. There's no use crying like that! Alice! I advise you to stop this minute! Oohh… what's this? A little glass box… with cake inside! Ooh: and there's a note. Eat me. Hmmm. I wonder if it will make me grow... if I grow, I will be able to reach the key. But what if makes me even smaller? Well, if it makes me smaller, I will be able to creep under the door.

Narrator
And Alice began to eat the cake. Did she grow big enough to reach the key? Or perhaps the cake made her small enough to creep under the door and into her beautiful garden. I'll tell you what happened next time. Goodbye.  

Part 1: Inference-Based Multiple Choice

 1. Why did Alice look behind the curtain?

a) She wanted to hide

b) She was looking for the key

c) She thought there might be something else hidden

d) She heard a sound behind it

 2. What can we guess about the bottle that said “Drink me”?

a) It was a magic drink

b) It was left by the White Rabbit

c) It was poison

d) It was a message for someone else

 3. Why does Alice compare herself to a telescope?

a) Because she can see far

b) Because she wants to travel

c) Because she feels mechanical

d) Because she is shrinking like a telescope folding up

 4. Why didn’t Alice get upset immediately when she couldn’t open the doors?

a) She expected them to be locked

b) She always stays calm

c) She thought she might find another way

d) She didn’t really want to go into the garden

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Part 2: Vocabulary in Context – Choose the best meaning from the text

 5. What does “curious feeling” most likely mean in the story?

a) An angry feeling

b) A strange or unusual feeling

c) A funny feeling

d) A very happy feeling

 6. What does the word tiny mean?

a) Invisible

b) Bright

c) Very small

d) Easy to break

 

Part 4: Open-Ended Questions (Justify your answers in 1–2 sentences)

 11. Why do you think Alice continued to explore, even when things became strange or difficult?

 12. What was Alice’s plan when she saw the cake? Was it a good idea? Why or why not?

 13. Why do you think the author didn’t tell us what happened after Alice ate the cake?

 14. Imagine you are Alice. What would you do differently in this situation? Why?

 

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