Алиса в Зазеркалье / Through the Looking-glass, and What Alice Found There

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 - ticket-office – касса]where I came from.”

“Don’t make excuses[17 - Don’t make excuses! – Не оправдывайся!],” said the Guard.

He was looking at her, first through a telescope, then through a microscope, and then through an opera-glass[18 - opera-glass – бинокль]. 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.