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2. Listen to the same extract again and focus on some text features. Pick out and put down word combinations and phrases:

a) through which the author helps the listener to understand Alice’s actions and feelings

b) which add to the expressiveness of the language (metaphors, comparisons, idioms) and make up the specific characteristics of the fairy-tale style (repetitions, exaggerations and intensification of qualities, specific syntactic constructions). Check your work with the key.

Passage 4

1. Listen to a new passage of the text and trace down the events that happened to Alice here. Expand the suggested outline by making use of the key words and phrases in the brackets.

1. Alice finds herself in a pool of water (up to her chin, to get drowned in tears).

2. The pool gets crowded with curious creatures (lead the way, to be glad of somebody’s company).

3. Alice tries to make a polite conversation with the birds and animals (to be a capital one for sth).

4. Alice’s speech causes a sensation among the party (to make various excuses, in a great hurry).

5. Alice sees the White Rabbit again (to get someone executed, as sure as ferrets are ferrets).

6. Alice traces the White Rabbit (like a streak of lightening, to be out of breath).

7. Alice sees a large blue Caterpillar (to smoke a hook, to take not the smallest notice of somebody).

8. The Caterpillar talks to Alice (languid, sleepy).

2. Listen to the talk between Alice and the Caterpillar and the song they perform together. Make sue you’ve grasped the contents of the conversation by completing the statements which follow:

1. Alice couldn’t say who she was because

a) she had changed several times since morning

b) she didn’t remember her real name in her dream

2. Alice couldn’t explain to the Caterpillar what she meant because

a) she couldn’t find more clear expressions

b) she was confused by so many changes that happened to her

3. Alice got indignant at the Caterpillar’s manners because

a) he ought to have told her who he was first

b) he bluntly disagreed with whatever Alice was saying

4. The Caterpillar asked Alice to repeat “You are Old, Father William” because

a) Alice had complained she couldn’t remember things as she used to

b) he wanted to see for himself what things had been happening to Alice

3. Listen to the song “You are Old, Father William” again and focus on some language features.

Pay attention to the contrast between the form of the young man’s questions (inquisitive, earnest insistent, emploring, pleading) and the insignificant, absolutely non-serious character of the things that arouse the young man’s interest, and, similarly, between the air of importance that the old man assumes while answering the questions of the young man and the comical nature of the contents of his replies.

Compare the song with the poem “You are Old, Father William” by Robert Southerly. (See the text of the poem below).