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ENGLISH FOR YOU AND ME

THROUGH ALICE IN WONDERLAND

By Ines Rosado
www.inesrosado.blogspot.com
mrosado@xtec.cat
What do you know about Alice?
• The author
• Story
• Characters
• Famous quotes
• Games
The Author
Lewis Carroll was the pen name of
Charles L. Dodgson, author of the
children's classics
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
and "Through the Looking-Glass."

Jobs: mathematic, writer and


photographer
story
Important moments in Alice in Wonderland:
• Fall down the rabbit hole
• Eat and drink in Wonderland (Alice changes her
size sometimes a long the story)
• Meet the white rabbit
• Meet the caterpillar
• The mad tea party
• Know the Cheshire cat
• Visit the Duchess and rescue a baby
• Know the Queen of hearts
• The croquet game
• Relate of her adventures when she wakes up
Main characters
Alice is a little girl, about 7 years old and the
main character of the story. She is curious,
smart, polite, kind and brave.
Her adventures begin with her jump down the
rabbit hole, and through the story she explains
how she feels when she changes her size.
A rabbit wearing a pocket watch runs quickly
past Alice at the beginning of the story. I’m
Alice follows the White Rabbit down the late…,
rabbit-hole into Wonderland. I’m late!
He is timid and nervous.
He is a messenger at the Court of the King
and Queen of Hearts.

The white
rabbit
CHESHIRE CAT

The Cheshire cat is courteous


and helpful, despite his
frightening appearance. His face
is fixed in mysterious smile. He
can make any and all parts of his
body disappear and reappear.
Queen of hearts

She is the queen of Wonderland. The people


who live there are terrified of her because she’s
nasty and savage.
She orders for everyone’s heads to be cut off
but they never are in the end.
THE CATERPILLAR

He makes Alice angry, but he


gives Alice advice about how to
get by in Wonderland and helps
her to grow to the size she
wants to be by telling her about
the magic of the mushroom he
sits on.
Mad hatter & march hare
March
Hare
The Duchess
She meets Alice twice:
The first time, she’s arguing with
her cook and she seems to be
angry.
The second time, she’s kinder than
before . They meet in the Queen’s
garden.
Funny fact: when Alice takes her
baby, she realises that it’s a pig!
Minor characters
• Griphon: it’s half eagle and half lion
• The mock turtle: it’s always sad and depressed
• The dormhouse: it’s a guess in the Mad tea party.
• Gardeners: they are playing cards serving the Queen
• The king of Hearts: he pardons everyone when the Queen orders to be
behead
• Fish-footman: he brings an invitation from the Queen to the Duchess
• Frog-footman:he serves at the Duchess’ house
• Mary-Ann: the White Rabbit’s maid.
Famous quotes useful for YOU
 Impossible things are possible (Alice)
 Twinkle, twinkle little bat / How I wonder what you're at? / Up above the world
you fly, like a tea tray in the sky (Dormouse) Look at this
 Curioser, curioser (Alice)
 "Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.“
 “Nothing is impossible”(Doorknob)* Look at this
 "Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop." –King
 “Which road do I take?" (Alice)
"Where do you want to go?"
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.” (Cheshire Cat)

*The Doorknob is the only character from the film Alice in Wonderland to
not have appeared in the book itself. It was created for the Disney film.
Croquet
game
The setup for croquet is fairly simple, it requires only an open
field and a croquet set comprised of two stakes, nine wickets,
along with a couple of mallets and balls.
The object of the game is to pass a ball through all the wickets.
EXTRA FOR ADULTS:
For more Alice, see:
Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy — seventeen contemporary thinkers
examine the Lewis Carroll classic through the lens of philosophy, exploring
subjects as diverse as drugs, dreams, logic, gender, perception, escapism, and
what the Red Queen can teach us about nuclear strategy
Salvador Dalí’s rare Alice in Wonderland illustrations — a hidden treasure circa
1969
Alice in Wonderland pop-up adaptation — a feat of design and paper
engineering
Alice in Wonderland as a subway map
Yayoi Kusama’s illustrations of Alice — Japan’s most prominent contemporary
artist takes on the Carroll classic
Leonard Wisegard’s stunning 1949 illustrations of Alice — a vibrant mid-century
homage to Wonderland
Alice Summary in youtube: the dark side of Alice
5 life lessons from Alice's adventure: there are some of the lessons
from Wonderland that helped anyone to grow up in mind.

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