Dictation Sentences from Alice in Wonderland
Level D: Lists 26-36
List 33
- The cook threw a pan after her as she went out, but it just missed her.
- She hardly knew what she was saying.
List 34
- “You’d better not talk,” said Five.
- You’d better ask her about it.
- Yes, I think you’d better leave off.
- I am older than you, and must know better.
- You’d better not do that again!
- It didn’t matter much which way she put it.
- What does it matter to me whether you’re a little girl?
- Alice looked into its face to see what was the matter with it.
- “Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat.
- It’ll sit up and beg for its dinner, and all sorts of things.
- Suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.
- Now I can do no more, whatever happens.
- It might make me smaller, I suppose.
- I suppose you’ll be telling me next that you never tasted an egg!
- As it’s asleep, I suppose it doesn’t mind.
- But why did they live at the bottom of a well?
- They sat down very sadly and quietly, and looked at Alice.
- She is such a dear quiet thing.
- She waited to see what would happen next.
List 35
- Into this they slipped the pig, head first, and then sat on it.
- As she said these words her foot slipped.
- It was only a mouse that had slipped in like herself.
- And she went on planning to herself how she would do it.
- Where CAN I have dropped them?
- They all stopped and looked at Alice, and the Queen said, “Who is this?”
- Oh my, how late it’s getting!
- I really must be getting home.
- There seemed to be no chance of her ever getting out of the room again.
- Suddenly a footman came running out of the wood.
- With tears running down his cheeks, he went on again.
- For the Mouse was swimming away from her as hard as it could go.
- Alice was beginning to see its meaning.
- But what happens when you come to the beginning again?
- She was beginning to grow larger again.
- “Begin at the beginning,” the King said, “and go on until you come to the end, then stop.”
List 36
- She set off at once, and ran until she was quite tired.
- They began running when they liked, and left off when they liked, so that it was not easy to know when the race was over.
- They lived at the bottom of a well.
- You may not have lived much under the sea.
- “But I’m not used to it,” said Alice.
- “You’ll get used to it in time,” he said.
- He used to come once a week.
- I’ll try if I know all the things I used to know.
- And so she went on, taking first one side and then the other.
- They began moving about again.
- She was moving them about as she spoke.
- Then you keep moving round, I suppose.
- “You couldn’t have wanted it too much,” said Alice, “living at the bottom of the sea.”
- It ran away when it saw mine coming.
- Alice knew it was the Rabbit coming to look for her.
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