Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Level E

Dictation Sentences from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Level E: Lists 37-47

List 37

Nobody seems to like her down here.
I’ll have nothing more to do with you!
He looked at it again, but he could think of nothing better to say.
I’ve had nothing yet, so I can’t take more.
Five and Seven said nothing, but looked at Two.
That’s nothing to what I could say if I chose.
She could not help thinking there must be more to come, so she sat still and said nothing.
“Nothing can be clearer than that,” said the King.
“You’re nothing but a pack of cards!” said Alice.
It seemed to her to wink with one of its little eyes, but it said nothing.
She began looking at everything about her, to pass away the time.
She was quite pleased to find that she knew the name of nearly everything there.
“I haven’t opened it yet,” said the White Rabbit, “but it seems to be a letter, written by the prisoner to somebody.”
Tell her something about the games now.
I suppose I should eat or drink something or other?
I think you can do something better with the time.
You’re thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk.
There are no mice in the air, I’m afraid, but you may catch a bat, and that’s very like a mouse, you know.
“What a funny watch!” she said.
However, at last she stretched her arms round it as far as they would go.

List 38

She was just in time to hear it say, as it turned a corner, “Oh my! How late it’s getting!”
She was close behind it when she turned the corner, but the Rabbit was no longer to be seen.
As she said these words her foot slipped, and she was up to her chin in salt water.
The Mouse gave a sudden leap out of the water.
I wonder if I shall ever see you any more!
Do cats eat bats, I wonder?
Where can I have dropped them, I wonder?
As there seemed to be no sort of chance of her ever getting out of the room again, no wonder she felt unhappy.
I do wonder what can have happened to me.
I wonder what they’ll do next.
The great wonder is that there’s anyone left at all.
This time Alice waited until it chose to speak again.
She went on crying until there was a large pool all round her, about four inches deep.
It’s no use going back to yesterday.

List 39

She looked up, but it was all dark overhead.
Just then her head struck against the roof of the hall.
I do wish they WOULD put their heads down!
The Mouse only shook his head, and walked a little quicker.
You shouldn’t have put it in with the bread.
Alice didn’t quite know what to say to this, so she helped herself to some bread and butter.
She ate a little bit, and said to herself, “Which way? Which way?”, holding her hand on top of her head to feel which way it was growing.
“Come, my head’s free at last!” said Alice.
His eyes are so very nearly at the top of his head.
You shouldn’t have put it in with the bread.
I almost wish I’d gone to see the Hatter instead!
“I never saw one, or heard of one,” said Alice.
When the Mouse heard this, it turned round and swam slowly back to her.
Alice heard it say to itself, “Then I’ll go round and get in at the window.”
She waited till she heard a little animal close above her.
Alice felt ready to sink into the earth.
It was much pleasanter at home when one wasn’t always growing larger and smaller.
He seemed to be in a very unpleasant state of mind.
“I never saw one, or heard of one,” said Alice.
Just then she heard something splashing about in the pool a little way off.
“Just take his head off outside,” the Queen added.

List 40

The fight was over, and both of them were out of sight.
You might as well say that “I see what I eat” is the same thing as “I eat what I see.”
You might just as well say that “I like what I get” is the same thing as “I get what I like.”
I think you might do something better with the time.
I might as well be at school at once.
Just think of what work it would make with the day and night.
You’ve no right to grow here.
She soon got it out again, and put it right.
I should have liked teaching it tricks very much, if only I’d been the right size to do it.
She did not see anything that looked like the right thing to eat or drink.
However, I’ve got back to my right size.
Keep tight hold of its right ear and left foot.
She was just saying to herself, “If one only knew the right way to change them.”
“I’m not a mile high,” said Alice.
"You are," said the King.
"Nearly two miles high," added the Queen.
In fact, she was now more than nine feet high.
It was high time to go, for the pool was getting quite crowded with the birds and animals that had fallen into it.
Come away, my dears! It’s high time you were all in bed!
As she said this, she came suddenly upon an open place, with a little house in it about four feet high.

List 41

“Come, we shall have some fun now!” thought Alice.
'“It’s no use speaking to it,” she thought, “till its ears have come, or at least one of them.”
“It doesn’t matter much,” thought Alice.
“I never thought about it,” said Alice. “Why?”
She thought, and rightly too, that very few little girls of her age knew the meaning of it at all.
She thought at first she would get up and leave.
‘I’m glad I’ve seen that done,” thought Alice.
“It doesn’t matter a bit,” she thought to herself.
“How CAN I have done that?” she thought. “I must be growing small again.”
“Would it be of any use, now,” thought Alice, “to speak to this mouse?”
“But then,” thought Alice, “shall I NEVER get any older than I am now?”
“One side of WHAT? The other side of WHAT?” thought Alice to herself.
“Whoever lives there,” thought Alice, “it’ll never do to come upon them THIS size.”
“Yes, we went to school in the sea, though you may not believe it.”
She could see it quite plainly through the glass.
To get through was more hopeless than ever.
As soon as she was small enough to get through, she ran out of the house.
“I’ll never go THERE again!” said Alice as she picked her way through the wood.
I’ll soon make you dry enough!
Oh, they’ll do well enough.
You’re looking for eggs, I know THAT well enough, and what does it matter to me whether you’re a little girl or a snake?
“How are you getting on?” said the Cat, as soon as there was mouth enough for it to speak with.
Alice could see this, as she was near enough to look over their slates.
A puppy was looking down at her with large round eyes, and stretching out one paw, trying to touch her.
They can’t have anything to put down yet, before it’s begun.
I never was so small as this before, never.
“I’ve seen hatters before,” she said to herself.
“Be quick about it,” added the Hatter, “or you’ll be asleep again before it’s done.”
He had never had to do such a thing before, and he wasn’t going to begin at his time of life.
That’s because it stays the same year for such a long time.
He was sitting between them, fast asleep.

List 42

There ought to be a book written about me! And when I grow up, I’ll write one. But I’m grown up now. At least there’s no room to grow up any more HERE.
They were just beginning to write this down on their slates.
“Write that down,” the King said, and they wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up.
I didn’t write it, and they can’t prove I did.
They all wrote down, “She doesn’t believe there’s any meaning in it.”
It’s wrong from beginning to end.
“I think I should understand that better,” Alice said, “if I had it written down.”
There’s nothing written on the outside.
Alice laughed so much at this, that she had to run back into the wood for fear of their hearing her.
She did not dare to laugh, and she could not think of anything to say.
“Of course you don’t!” the Hatter said.
This, of course, Alice could not stand.

List 43

Alice was not a bit hurt, so she jumped up on to her feet.
When the Mouse heard this, it turned round and swam slowly back to her.
Alice turned and came back again.
“If you’re going to turn into a pig, my dear,” said Alice, “I’ll have nothing more to do with you.”
“What day of the month is it?” he said, turning to Alice.
It was the White Rabbit returning.
They all returned from him to you.
I’m sure those are not the right words.
She felt sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon.
Nobody seems to like her, down here, and I’m sure she’s the best cat in the world.
I’m sure I don’t want to stay in here any longer!
She was not quite sure whether it was good manners for her to speak first.
“If I don’t take this child away with me,” thought Alice, “they’re sure to kill it in a day or two.”
“Oh, you’re sure to do that,” said the Cat, “if you only walk long enough.”
She felt sure it would all come wrong.

List 44

First it marked out a racecourse, in a sort of circle.
When Alice had been all the way down one side and up the other, she walked sadly down the middle.
They all sat down at once, in a large ring, with the Mouse in the middle.
What sort of people live about here?
“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
I only wish people knew that.
“Oh, don’t talk about trouble!” she said.
“If there’s no meaning in it,” said the King, “that saves a world of trouble, you know.”
I shall be too far off to trouble myself about you.
“Can’t remember WHAT tbings?” he said.
After a while she remembered that she still held the pieces of mushroom in her hands.
She could not remember ever having heard of such a rule.
I’ve read that in some book, but I don’t remember where.
They would not remember the rules their friends had taught them.
She could not remember ever having seen such a thing.
Then she remembered how small she was now, and she soon made out that it was only a mouse that had slipped in like herself.
“That’s the most important thing we’ve heard yet,” said the King, rubbing his hands.
“Come back!” he called after her. “I’ve something important to say!”
She was quite surprised to find that she stayed the same size.
As she said this she looked down at her hands, and was surprised to see that she had put on one of the Rabbit’s little white kid gloves while she was talking.
How surprised he’ll be when he finds out who I am!
“How should I know?” said Alice, surprised.
“What did they draw?” asked Alice, quite forgetting her promise.

List 45

I’ll tell you my story, and you’ll understand why it is I hate cats and dogs.
“Please come back and finish your story!” Alice called after it.
“A likely story indeed!” said the bird.
“Tell us a story!” said the March Hare.
"Yes, please do!" said Alice.
"And be quick about it," added the Hatter, "or you'll be asleep again before it's done."
They looked so good that it made Alice quite hungry to look at them.
I shall have to ask them what the name of the country is, you know.
“I’m very sorry,” said Alice, who was beginning to see its meaning.
It was all very well to say “Drink me,” but the wise little Alice was not going to do THAT in a hurry.
“It must be a very pretty dance,” said Alice.

List 46

Seven looked up and said, “That’s right, Five! Always lay the blame on others!”
They were always getting up and walking off to other parts of the ground.
Our family always hated cats! Don’t let me hear the name again!
I didn’t know that Cheshire cats always grinned. In fact, I didn’t know that cats COULD grin!”
When she looked down at her feet, they seemed to be almost out of sight, they were getting so far off.
I almost wish I’d gone to see the Hatter instead.
Now, if you only kept on good terms with him, he’d do almost anything you liked with the clock.
I am so very tired of being all alone here!
They all moved off, and Alice was soon left alone.
She ran across the field after it.
“It must have been that,” said the King, “unless it was written to nobody.”
She saw that it was addressed to the baby, and not to her.
“And how many hours a day did you do lessons?” said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject.
Let this be a lesson to you never to lose your temper.
How can you learn lessons in here? Why, there’s hardly room for YOU!
“That’s enough about lessons,” he said. “Tell her something about games now.”
First came ten men carrying clubs.
The White Rabbit was still in sight, hurrying down it.

List 47

As there seemed to be no chance of getting her hands up to her head, she tried to get her head down to them.
First she tried to look down and make out what she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything.
Some of the birds hurried off at once.
Taking Alice by the hand, it hurried off, without waiting for the end of the song.
“No room! No room!” they cried out when they saw Alice coming.
She carried it out into the open air.
She carried the pepper box in her hand, and Alice guessed who it was.
It means to make anything prettier.
Luckily, the salt water had not got into it.
Well, it’s got no business there, at any rate.
“If everybody minded their own business,” she said, “the world would go round a deal faster than it does.”
"That's none of your business, Two!" said Seven.
"Yes, it IS his business!" said Five, "and I'll tell him."
It's no business of MINE!
Somebody said that it’s done by everybody minding their own business.
"What do you know about this business?" the King said to Alice.
"Nothing," said Alice.
"Nothing WHATEVER?" asked the King.
"Nothing whatever," said Alice.
"That's very important," the King said.