href="#n_14" type="note">[14]. The Fifth one is covered with water. The Sixth Square belongs to Humpty Dumpty[15]. The Seventh Square is a forest. One of the Knights will show you the way. And in the Eighth Square we will be Queens together, and have a lot of fun!” Alice got up and curtseyed, and sat down again.
The Red Queen said “good-bye,” and then disappeared.
And Alice began to remember that she was a Pawn, and soon she would make a move.
Exercises
1. Why could the flowers talk?
1. The flowers were magical.
2. The flowers learnt a lot from the books.
3. People talked to them very often.
4. The ground was hard, so the flowers were not asleep all the time.
2. What flowers were the noisiest?
1. Daisies
2. Roses
3. Violets
4. Lilies
3. Point out what directions the Red Queen gave to Alice.
1. Look up, speak nicely, and don’t twiddle your fingers!
2. Don’t be so shy and speak first!
3. Curtsey while you‘re thinking what to say, it saves time.
4. Call me Madam!
5. Turn out your toes as you walk… and remember who you are!
4. What chessman did Alice want to be?
1. A castle
2. A pawn
3. A queen
4. A knight
5. What were Alice and the Queen doing to stay under the tree?
1. They were jumping.
2. They were running.
3. They were counting.
4. They were crawling.
6. What would be in the Eighth Square?
1. Alice would meet a Knight.
2. Alice would return home.
3. Humpty-Dumpty would have a conversation with her.
4. Alice would be a Queen too, and all the Queens would have a lot of fun.
7. Complete the sentences with these expressions:
takes care of, by train, kept crying, vanished into the air, I wish
1. ‘Are you frightened that nobody ……………… you?
2. So you will go very quickly through the Third Square. ………………, I think.
3. The Queen …………… ‘Faster! Faster!’.
4. ‘O Tiger-lily,’ said Alice to one flower, ‘………………you could talk!’
5. Alice …………… that she was a Pawn, and soon she would make a move.
8. Complete the table:
Chapter 3
Looking-Glass Insects
Alice wanted to go to the Third Square. So she ran down the hill and got on a train.
“Tickets, please!” said the Guard. “Now then! Show your ticket, child!” the Guard went on, looking angrily at Alice.
“I haven’t got a ticket,” Alice said, “there wasn’t a ticket-office [16]where I came from.”
“Don’t make excuses[17],” said the Guard.
He was looking at her, first through a telescope, then through a microscope, and then through an opera-glass[18]. At last he said, “You’re travelling the wrong way,” and went away.
“A child,” said the gentleman sitting next to her (he was dressed in white paper), “should know which way she’s going, even if she doesn’t know her own name!”
A Goat, that was sitting next to the gentleman, said in a loud voice, “She has to know her way to the ticket-office, even if she doesn’t know her alphabet!”
And after that other voices went on, “She must go by post …”, “She must be sent as a message by the telegraph …” and so on.
Alice began. “I was in a wood just now, and I wish I could get back there.”
But at that moment there was a shrill scream from the engine[19], and everybody jumped up.
The Horse said, “It’s only a brook and we have to jump it over.” Alice was nervous. In another moment the carriage rose up into the air …
And the next moment she was sitting under a tree with the Gnat [20]from the train. It was sitting on a branch over her head. It was an enormous Gnat. “About the size of a chicken,” Alice thought.
“You don’t like insects?” the Gnat asked.
“I like them when they can talk,” Alice said. “They don’t talk, where I come from.”
“What kind of insects do you like from where you come from?” the Gnat asked.
“I don’t like them at all,” Alice explained, “because I’m afraid of them … at least the large kinds. But I can tell you the names of some of them.”
“Do they answer to their names?” the Gnat asked.
“I don’t know …”
“What’s the use of having names[21]” the Gnat said, “if they won’t answer to them?”
“It’s useful to the people who name them. If not, why do things have names at all?”
“I can’t say,” the Gnat said. “Here they’ve got no names.”
After this, Alice was silent for a minute or two. The Gnat asked, “I think you don’t want to
Humpty Dumpty – Шалтай-Болтай (
ticket-office – касса
Don’t make excuses! – Не оправдывайся!
opera-glass – бинокль
a shrill scream from the engine – пронзительный свисток паровоза
gnat – комар
What’s the use of having names – В чем же смысл имен
