ALICE IN WONDERLAND
I. New words:
1. Suddenly
2. Scamper
3. Waist coat
4. Curiosity
5. Whiskers
6. Delight
7. Fountains
8. Doorway
9. Exclaimed
10. Popped
11. Hurried
12. Disappear
13. Bright
14. Earth
15. Quickly
II. Meanings
1. Scamper – run hastily
2. Disappear – be out of sight
3. Popped – jumped
4. Delight – happiness
5. Fountains – small springs
6. Hurried – rushed
7. Whiskers – long hair on the face of animal
8. Exclaimed – cried out suddenly
III. Answer the following questions:
1. While listening to the story what did Alice see?
Answer: Alice saw a white rabbit while she was listening to the story.
2. What was different about the rabbit that Alice saw?
Answer: The rabbit that Alice saw had pink eyes and was wearing a blue coat. He
could talk like human.
3. Where did the rabbit go?
Answer: The rabbit jumped into the rabbit hole and went down and down.
4. How did Alice reach wonderland?
Answer: Alice reached the wonderland by following the white rabbit.
5. What strange things did Alice see?
Answer: Alice saw a lovely garden with beds of bright flowers and cool fountains.
6. Describe in your own words the garden that Alice saw
Answer: The garden Alice had ever seen. It had beds of bright flowers and cool
fountains.
7. Write some of the sounds you hear at night?
Answer: Barking of street dogs and sounds made by watchman.
8. What do you think Alice saw in the garden?
Answer: Alice saw beds of bright flowers, cool fountains, beautiful birds and fruits
trees in the garden.
9. How could Alice have got into the garden?
Answer: Alice could have got into the garden by becoming smaller.
Home work-1 Draw the garden of your dream.
IV. Tick the correct answer:
1. Rabbit had - pink eyes
2. Who was burning with curiosity? - Alice
3. Who fell down and down and down? - the rabbit
4. Who said “ oh my ears and whiskers”? – the rabbit
V. Find one word from the story that means:
1. To walk fast – hurried
2. Happy – delight
3. To be seen nowhere – disappear
4. At once – quickly
5. Move fast – suddenly
6. To be inquisitive – curious
VI. Re- arrange the words to make the questions and put a question
mark (?)
1. Talk rabbit a how can
Q. How can a rabbit talk?
2. going he is where
Q. Where is he going?
3. read he can time the
Q. Can he read the time?
4. hurry is in a why he
Q. Why is he in a hurry?
VII. Read the given passages and answer the following questions;
1. One day Alice was lying under a tree listening to her sister reading a story.
Suddenly she saw a white rabbit scamper by. He had pink eyes and was wearing
blue coat. He took out a big watch from his waistcoat pocket and as he hurried
away, he said “ oh dear, I will be too late!”.
a) What was Alice doing?
Ans: Alice was lying under a tree listening to her sister reading a story.
b) Who was reading a story?
Ans: Alice’s sister was reading a story.
c) What did Alice see suddenly?
Ans: Suddenly Alice saw a white rabbit scamper by.
d) What did he take out from his pocket?
Ans: the rabbit took out a big watch from his waistcoat pocket.
2. The rabbit started running and Alice followed the rabbit. The rabbit suddenly
popped down a large rabbit hole. Alice jumped into the rabbit hole too! The
rabbit went down and down and down and down into the rabbit hole.
a) What did the rabbit start doing?
Ans: The rabbit started running.
b) What did Alice do?
Ans: Alice followed the rabbit.
c) Where did the rabbit go suddenly?
Ans: The rabbit suddenly popped down a large rabbit hole.
d) Did Alice jump into the rabbit hole too?
Ans: Yes, Alice also jumped into the rabbit hole.
e) Write a similar sounding word for ‘hole’.
Ans: Whole
f) Write the meaning of
i) Popped – jumped
ii) Suddenly - immediately
3. She saw a glass table with a golden key on it. She tried the little golden key in the
lock and to her delight it fitted! Alice opened the door and looked into the
loveliest garden she had ever seen!
a) Whom does ‘she’ refer to here?
Ans: She refers Alice
b) What did she see across the door?
Ans: Alice saw the loveliest garden across the door
c) Give the positive and comparative degree froms of ‘loveliest’
Ans: Lovely lovelier
d) Write the opposite words from the passage for-
i) Unlock - lock
ii) Closed - opened