Read this excerpt from the first chapter of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and check your comprehension. You can also listen as you read by clicking on the video.
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Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, ‘and what is the use of a book,’ thought Alice ‘without pictures or conversations?’
So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.
There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, ‘Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!’ (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.
In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.
Exercise
Now complete the comprehension quiz below.Alice in Wonderland Reading Comprehension quiz
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I love this story, but I can’t decide if I prefer movie or book. What do you think about this?
I don’t like the movie and the story.
I would like to read this story in its native language, but it’s so complicated for me for now. Are you STUDENTS able to do it without feeling desperate?
Hi José Angel! You can read this story in “graded reader”, books used for teaching people to read, or to help them learn a foreign language by reading. Run to the nearest library/bookstore and ask for it!
Interesting post
I like the movie and the book