📘 Chapter 4.4 – A Mad Tea Party

🔤 Meanings

  • fantasy – imagination
  • mingle – mix
  • peculiar – strange; odd
  • indignantly – angrily because something is unfair or wrong
  • but – except
  • civil – polite; well-mannered
  • curiosity – strong desire to know or learn something
  • severity – strictness; harshness
  • hastily – hurriedly; quickly
  • dropped – stopped (a discussion)
  • wearily – in a tired manner
  • contemptuously – with a feeling of dislike or disrespect
  • cautiously – carefully; paying attention to safety
  • to account for – to explain
  • to not stand – to not tolerate
  • keep on good terms – to remain friendly
  • instance – an example; a particular situation
  • in a twinkling – in a very short time
  • ventured – dared
  • between whiles – between two short periods
  • hoarse – rough and harsh (used to describe a voice)

📝 Pointers

1️⃣ Read the passage aloud playing the roles of different characters.

Ans: Students must do this on their own.

2️⃣ Write any three silly remarks made by the characters (other than Alice). Why are they silly?

Ans: Three silly remarks made by the characters other than Alice are:

(i) “No room! No room!” they cried.
It was silly because there was clearly plenty of room at the table.

(ii) “There isn’t any,” said the March Hare.
It was silly because he had just invited Alice to have some wine.

(iii) “Have you guessed the riddle yet?” said the Hatter.
It was silly because he himself did not know the answer to the riddle.

3️⃣ Write a funny sentence on the given pattern.

Pattern:
I mean what I say. I say what I mean.

Ans:
I do what I love. I love what I do.

4️⃣ What would you like to do if ‘Time’ was your friend?

Ans:
If ‘Time’ were my friend, I would like to do many things. I would like to go back to my childhood days. I would spend more time with my grandparents and my loved ones who are no longer with me.

5️⃣ Similarity and Differences between a Raven and a Writing Desk

Similarity:
Both can be objects of curiosity and imagination.

Five Differences:

(a) A raven is a living creature, whereas a writing desk is non-living.
(b) A raven can fly, but a writing desk cannot.
(c) A raven cannot be used for writing, but a writing desk can be used for writing.
(d) A raven lays eggs, but a writing desk does not.
(e) A raven is natural, whereas a writing desk is man-made.

6️⃣ Visit a library and read Lewis Carroll’s book Alice in Wonderland.

Ans: Students must do this on their own.

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