Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Level F

Dictation Sentences from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Level F: Lists 48-58

List 48

Mr. Bucket was the only person in the family with a job.
At this point, the door opened, and Mr. Bucket walked into the room. He was cold and tired, and he looked it. All day long, he had been working in the streets.
At this point, Mr. Salt stepped forward.
“They only light it every other day,” said Mr. Wonka. “Perhaps this is one of the days when they let it go out. You never know. They might be lucky.”
Could you send a real live person from one place to another in the same way?

List 49

It had one hundred rooms, and everything was made of either light or dark chocolate.
There used to be thousands of people working there.
“He certainly seems well enough,” Mrs. Bucket said, laughing. “Yes, perhaps you’re right after all. Perhaps Grandpa Joe should be the one to go with him. I certainly can’t go myself and leave the other three old people all alone in bed for a whole day.”
They still wear the same kind of clothes they wore over there.

List 50

These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr. Bucket. Their names are Grandpa Joe and Grandma Josephine.
And these two very old people are the father and mother of Mrs. Bucket. Their names are Grandpa George and Grandma Georgina.
This is Mr. Bucket. This is Mrs. Bucket.
Mr. And Mrs. Bucket have a small boy whose name is Charlie Bucket.
The lucky person was a small girl who lived with her rich parents in a great city far away.
“You mean he’s really all right?” asked Charlie. “Even after going up that awful pipe?”
“He’s very much all right,” said Mr. Wonka.
“He’s changed!” said Grandpa Joe. “He used to be fat! Now he’s thin as a straw!”
“Of course he’s changed,” said Mr. Wonka, laughing. He got squeezed in the pipe.
I really am giving it to you. That’s all right, isn’t it?
“I’m afraid my mother won’t come with us,” Charlie said sadly.
“Why ever not?”
“Because she won’t leave my grandparents.”
“But they must come, too.”
“They can’t,” Charlie said. “They’re very old and they haven’t been out of bed for twenty years.”
“Then we’ll take the bed along as well, with them in it,” said Mr. Wonka. “There’s room in here for a bed.”
“You couldn’t get the bed out of the house,” said Grandpa Joe. “It won’t go through the door."

List 51

The whole of this family live together in a small house on the edge of a great town. The house wasn’t nearly large enough for so many people. There were only two rooms in the place altogether, and there was only one bed. The bed was given to the four old grandparents because they were so old and tired. They were so tired, they never got out of it.
Come over here and sit close to me and we’ll open it together.
They went out through a small secret door.
The minute she entered the room, one hundred animals stopped what they were doing and turned their heads and stared at her with small black eyes. Then all at once, they pulled her to the ground and started carrying her across the floor.
Why can’t I send a real bar of chocolate through the air in tiny pieces and then put the pieces together at the other end, all ready to be eaten?
He may come through any minute.
Never again! I’m throwing the TV set right out the window the minute we get home. I’ve had enough!

List 52

“The first day of February!” cried Mrs. Bucket. “But that’s tomorrow! Today is the last day of January. I know it is!"
Talk to me, Mike! Say something! Tell me you’re all right!

List 53

Although his father and mother often went without their dinner so that they could give it to him, it still wasn’t nearly enough for a growing boy.
Often, Charlie’s mother and father would come in as well, and stand by the door, listening to the stories the old people told. For perhaps half an hour every night, this room would become a happy place, and the whole family would forget that it was hungry and poor.
Oh, yes he did. He told all the workers that he was sorry, but they would have to go home. Then, he shut the main gates and fastened them.
“Read it aloud,” said Grandpa Joe, climbing back into bed again at last.
They spent every minute of their days climbing through the treetops looking for other things to eat.
“Row on,” shouted Mr. Wonka. “There’s no time to answer silly questions.”
Now it was beginning to climb.
Just a minute, now! Listen to me! I want everybody to be very careful in this room.
Listen to what’s happened!

List 54

“But that’s impossible!” said little Charlie, staring at his grandfather.
“Of course it’s impossible!” cried Grandpa Joe.
“I don’t believe it!” he said. “It’s not possible.”
“Go slower!” panted Mrs. Salt.
“Impossible,” said Mr. Wonka. “We should never get there in time if I did.”
“Get where?” asked the girl.
“Never you mind,” said Mr. Wonka. “You just wait and see.”

List 55

Nobody sees him anymore. He never comes out. The only things that come out of that place are chocolates and candies. They come out through a special trap door in the wall.
“Now this, my dear children,” said Mr. Wonka, “is the main hall.”
So I shipped them all over here, every man, woman and child.
“There’s no time for arguing! Press on, press on!” But five seconds later, when a bright red door came into sight ahead, he suddenly shouted, “Stop!"
“Yes, yes!” the children cried. “We won’t touch a thing!”
Don’t argue, my dear child, please don’t argue! It’s such a waste of time!
“Oh, look,” he cried, pointing down, “there go the other children! They’re returning home!”
Looking down now, Charlie could see the children and their parents standing in a little group just inside the gates.
I’m an old man. I’m much older than you think. I can’t go on forever. I’ve got no children of my own, no family at all. So who is going to run things when I get too old to do it myself?

List 56

“Are you sure you want to spend your money on that, Grandpa?” Charlie asked.
He turned away and started running as fast as he could towards the other end of the room.

List 57

Bring it straight back to me, and we’ll open it together.
Take it straight home, quickly, before you lose it! Run all the way and don’t stop until you get there, you understand?
They passed another door, then another and another.
Why do we have to go rushing past all these lovely rooms?
There’s no time for arguments.

List 58

There wasn’t any question of them being able to buy a better house. They were far too poor for that.
Walking to school in the mornings, Charlie could see great pieces of chocolate piled up high in the shop windows. He would stop and stare and press his nose against the glass, his mouth watering like mad. Many times a day, he would see other children taking chocolate bars out of their pockets and eating them happily.
Outside the walls, for half a mile around in every direction, the air smelled of melting chocolate.
Then one afternoon, his eye was caught suddenly by a piece of paper that was lying in the snow. Part of it was under the snow, but he saw at once what it was. It was a dollar bill!
You’re the one who found your ticket only yesterday, aren’t you? Yes, yes. I read all about it in this morning’s papers! Just in time, my dear boy! I’m so glad!
He took a key from his pocket and unlocked the door.