Учебно-методическое пособие по работе с книгой Л. Кэрролла "Приключения Алисы в Стране Чудес". Дедова С.А. - 11 стр.

to take advantage of her strength because her great size is proportion-                    Alice: Well, I can't remember things as I used to, and...
ately unreal. The same point is illustrated later and with reverse em-                     Caterpillar:_______.
phasis when again as a tiny mite she plays with the puppy who towers                       Alice: Hmm? Oh! Oh, oh, yes, sir! Um... how doth the little
over her and threatens her with its sheer weight and friendliness. Size             busy bee, improve each shi...
and other external accidents have nothing at all to do with reality.                       Caterpillar: Stop! That is not spoken correcitically. It goes:
                                                                                    how...
       Chapter V. ADVICE FROM A CATERPILLAR                                                Alice: Hihihi!
                                                                                           Caterpillar: Hmm! How doth the little crocodile improve his
       1. Answer the questions:
                                                                                    shining tail. And pour the waters of the Nile, on every golden_____.
       • Why can’t Alice answer the Caterpillar’s question «Who are                 How cheer... how cheer... Ahem!
you?»?                                                                                     Alice: Hihihihi!
       • Why does Lewis Carroll choose to change Alice's size? What                        Caterpillar: How cheerfully he seems to grin, how neatly
does this frequent change in Alice's height signify?                                spreads his_____. And welcomes little fishes in, with gently smil-
       • Comment on Alice’s words «I can’t remember things I used –                 ing______.
and I don’t keep the same size for ten minutes together!» Do you think                     Alice: Well I must say I've never heard it that way before...
her height influences her mind?                                                            Caterpillar: I know, I have _______it.
                                                                                           Alice: Well, cough-cough-couch, if you ask me...
     2. Learn the poem «You are old, Father William» by heart and                          Caterpillar: You? Huh, who are you?
dramatize it in pairs.                                                                     Alice: Cough-cough, cough-cough, A-choo! Oh!
       3. Watch a part from the cartoon and fill in the gaps.                              Caterpillar: You there! Girl! Wait! Come back! I have some-
                                                                                    thing important to say!
        Caterpillar: A, e i o u, a e i o u, a e i o u, o, u e i o a, u e i a, a e
                                                                                           Alice: Oh dear. I wonder what he wants now. Well...?
i o u... Who are you?
                                                                                           Caterpillar:____________!
        Alice: I- I- I_________, sir! I changed so many times since this
                                                                                           Alice: Is that all?
morning, you see...
                                                                                           Caterpillar: No. Exacitically, what is your problem?
        Caterpillar: I do not see. Explain yourself.
                                                                                           Alice: Well, it's exacitici-, exaciti-, well, it's precisely this: I
        Alice: Why, I'm afraid I can't explain myself, sir, because I'm
                                                                                    should like to be a little larger, sir.
not myself, you know...
                                                                                           Caterpillar: Why?
        Caterpillar: I do not know.
                                                                                           Alice: Well, after all, three inches is such a___________, and...
        Alice: Well, I can't put it anymore clearly for it isn't clear to me!
                                                                                           Caterpillar: I am exacitically___________, and it is a very
        Caterpillar: You? Who are you?
                                                                                    good height indeed!
        Alice: Well, don't you think you ought to tell me- cough-cough,
                                                                                           Alice: But I'm not used to it. And you needn't shout! Oh dear!
cough-cough, who you are first?
                                                                                           Caterpillar: By the way, I have a few more helpful_____. One
        Caterpillar: Why?
                                                                                    side will make you grow taller...
        Alice: Oh dear._____________________.
                                                                                           Alice: One side of what?
        Caterpillar: It is not.
                                                                                           Caterpillar: ...and the other side will make you grow shorter.
        Alice: Well, it is to me.
                                                                                           Alice: The other side of what?
        Caterpillar: Why?
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