Alice in Wonderland - Listening Activity
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Chapter 2


A- Tick the three items which are discussed in the talk. 0.22 - 6.05

  • Alice thinks about offering gifts to her feet.
  • Alice cried again because she was to short to get the golden key.
  • There is pool all around Alice because it rained.
  • When the rabbit comes back, it has a watch in one of his hands.
  • Alice picks up a fan and a pair of gloves from the floor.
  • Alice does not remember who she is.
  • Alice thinks she is Ada because she knows all sort of things.
  • Alice remembers multiplication tables and Geography well.
  • Alice tells a poem about a lion.
  • Alice eventually thinks she is not Mabel because she remembers all she studied in the past.

B- Answer the following questions questions.

0.22 - 1.22
1. What is the incorrect English word that Alice uses?
2. How often does Alice want to offer a new pair of boots to her feet?

2.25 - 3.45
3. What did the rabbit do when Alice tried to speak to him?

3.46 - 5.00
4. What is four times five and four times six according to Alice?
5. What is the capital of Rome according to Alice?

6.07 - 7.10
6. Why did Alice shrink again?
7. How tall is Alice after having shrunken?

7.10 - 8.10
8. Why is the pool so large?

8.40 - 10.00
9. Why did Alice say “Ou est ma chatte?” to the mouse?

10.35 - 12.00
10. What is the price of the animal that lives near Alice’s house?

C- Circle the correct answers. 8.10 - end

Alice asks the mouse:
a) the time it is.
b) tow to get the golden key.
c) where is the white rabbit.
d) how to get out of the pool.

Alice thinks the mouse is:
a) English
b) French
c) Spanish
d) Chinese

The mouse is _____ when Alice speaks about cats.
a) offended
b) fearful
c) interested
d) confident

There is a nice little ___ near Alice’s house.
a) rabbit
b) mouse
c) cat
d) dog

The mouse wants to tell Alice the reasons why:
a) It is swimming in the pool
b) It wants to go to the garden
c) It hates dogs and cats
d) It does not want to talk to Alice anymore.

Other animals joined Alice in the pool. They are:
a) A dodo, a dog, a cat, and an eagle.
b) A dodo, an eaglet, a lory and a duck.
c) A duck, a lory, a mouse, and a rabbit.
d) A lory, a mouse, a dodo, and an eagle.

D-Complete the notes below by writing no more than three words in the spaces provided.

  • Alice manages to put on one of the rabbit’s little _______________.
  • Alice goes back to the table to ________________________.
  • Alice starts shrinking again because of ____________________________.
  • Alice thinks that wherever you go an the English coast, people can find _______________________.
  • The water of the pool comes from ______________________.
  • While swimming, Alice meets a ___________________________.

E- Listen and fill in the blanks. 9.55 - 10.35

‘Well, _______ not,’ said Alice in a soothing tone: ‘don’t be _______ about it. And yet I wish I could show you our cat Dinah: I think you’d take a _______ to cats if you could only see her. She is such a dear quiet thing,’ Alice went on, half to herself, as she _________ lazily about in the _______, ‘and she sits purring so nicely by the ________, licking her paws and _______ her face–and she is such a nice soft thing to ________–and she’s such a capital one for catching _________–oh, I beg your pardon!’ cried Alice again, for this time the Mouse was bristling all over, and she ________ certain it must be really ________. ‘We won’t talk about her any more if you’d _______ not.

F- Write the following sentences.

4.12 – 4.27
“I’ll try _________________________________________________________ at that rate!”

6.09 – 6.17
“As she said _____________________________________________________ talking.”


Chapter 1


A. Listen to the following passages and answer the questions.

2.00 – 3.30
1. How was the book that Alice’s sister was reading?
2. What suddenly appeared next to Alice? Describe it.
3. Where did Alice have to go to follow the rabbit?
3.30 – 5.00
4. How were the sides of the well inside which Alice fell?
6.00 – 9.00
5. Who is Dinah?
6. What could Dinah catch if it had been in the well with Alice?
7. Describe the hall in which Alice arrived?
8. What was behind the tiny door?
9.00 – 11.00
9. What else did Alice find on the glass table?
10. How did the bottle taste?
11. How tall did Alice get after drinking the bottle?
11.00 – End
12. Why did Alice cry?
13. What did Alice find under the table?
14. What happened once Alice had a little bit of cake?


B. Listen to the following passage then fill in the blanks while listening.

4.20 – 5.13
‘Well!’ thought Alice to herself, ‘after such a _______ as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs! How _______ they’ll all think me at home! Why, I wouldn’t say anything about it, even if I fell off the top of the ________!’(Which was very likely true.) Down, down, down. Would the fall NEVER come to an end! ‘I wonder how many ________ I’ve fallen by this time?’ she said aloud. ‘I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the _________. Let me see: that would be four ___________________ down, I think–’ (for, you see, Alice had learnt several things of this sort in her __________ in the ____________, and though this was not a VERY good __________________ for showing off her ________________ , as there was no one to listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over) ‘–yes, that’s about the right __________________ –but then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude I’ve got to?’ (Alice had no ________ what Latitude was, or Longitude either, but _______ they were nice grand ___________ to say.)


C. Listen to the following passages three times then write the full sentences.

4.03 – 4.17
“She took _________________________________________________________ as she fell.”

5.14 – 5.23
“Presently _____________________________________________________ downwards.”

5.28 – 5.38
“She was ___________________________________________________________________ Australia.”


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