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Методическая копилка Шестеровой Оксаны Владимировны

ICONS OF ENGLAND

ALICE IN WONDERLAND

Lewis Carroll’s famous story of the little girl who falls down a rabbit hole has been entertaining the young (and not so young) readers for almost 150 years.

It was probably the first book written not to educate children or give them moral instructions – but to entertain them.

Lewis Carroll was the name used by Charles Dodgson, a mathematics teacher at Oxford University, when he was writing children’s books and poems.

When he became a teacher at Oxford, Carroll used to take the daughters of his friend, Dean Liddell, for boat rides on the river. On one of these river trips he told the story of Alice in Wonderland to the young Alice Liddell. Later, he wrote the story down, and it was published in 1865.

As well as Alice’s Wonderland and Alice through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll wrote poems and another children’s book, Sylvie and Bruno. He was also great letter writer and he invented games and puzzles. As an Oxford don, he also published mathematical works.

Queen Victoria was so charmed with Alice in Wonderland that she gave order that the next book by this author should be sent to her. Soon the book arrived, and it was: The Condensation of Determinants, a new and brief method of computing Arithmetical Values.

Are the following sentences true or false? Put T (true) or F (false) by each sentence:

1. Lewis Carrol wrote the book about Alice. ___

2. He was a teacher at school. ___

3. Lewis Carrol was his real name. ___

4. Alice Liddell had listened to the story “Alice in Wonderland” before it was published. ___

5. Lewis Carrol published not only books for children. ___

6. Queen Victoria wanted to read some other books by Carrol. ___

7. Dodgson used his pen name for writing books for children. ___