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10th class-cbse english (NCERT BOOK-First Flight)(short answers) chapter-6 (The hundred dresses (part-2))( El Bsor Estar)

Answer following questions in about 40 words.

Q1)How did Maddie feel after listening to the note from Wanda’s father?

Ans1) After listening to the note from Wanda’s father Maddie was deeply stirred. She was feeling guilty of becoming mute supporter of Peggie in teasing Wanda. She decided to write to peggy to stop making fun of Wanda anymore.

Q2) What excuses does Peggy think up for her behaviour? Why?

Ans2) Peggy was much disturbed on listening letter of Wanda’s father. She was feeling bad. But she tried to pacify by thinking that she had never called her a foreigner and she had even not made fun of her name. She had only made fun of Wanda for her claim of having hundred dresses in her closet. She thought either Wanda was a liar or she was too dumb.

Q3) What did Peggy and Maddie write in their letter to Wanda?

Ans3) By writing a letter to Wanda Peggy and Maddie wanted to express their new feelings about her. They informed her that she had won the contest. They asked about her new place and new teacher. They told that her dresses were very beautiful. Actually they felt deeply sorry and wanted to convey this in the letter.

Q4) What did Wanda write in her letter to Miss Mason?

Ans4) Wanda, in her letter to teacher Miss Mason, wished Merry Christmas to all girls. She told that her new teacher was also nice. She gifted her hundred dresses to the girls. She gave green dress to Peggy and blue one to Maddie. Peggy and Maggie concluded she was not angry and she loved them.

Q5) What did Maddie make Peggy realize?

Ans5) Maddie was disturbed even after getting gift from Wanda. At her home when she was looking at the picture of the dress she saw that there was a face drawn in the picture that looked like her. She became happy and rushed to the Peggy. She sowed her that a face was also drawn in her picture that resembled Peggy’s face. They concluded that Wanda was not angry.

Some more questions for practice.

Answer following questions in about 40 words.

Q1) How did Maddie view Wanda at the end of the story?

Q 2) What are Maddie‘s thought as they go to Boggins Heights?

Q3) What did Jan Petronski write in the letter?

10th class-cbse english (NCERT BOOK-First Flight)(short answers) chapter-5 (The hundred dresses (part-1))( El Bsor Estar)

Answer following questions in about 40 words.

Q1) Why did other girls see Wanda different from them? How did they treat her?

Ans1) To other girls Wanda’s name was funny. It was different from the usual names in that area. Moreover Wanda lived on Boggins Heights and her clothes were not so clean. She was a laughing stock of other girls. They made fun of her hundred dresses.

Q2) Who was peggy? Why and how did she make fun of Wanda?

Ans2) Peggy was the most popular, pretty and rich girl in the school. Peggy made fun of Wanda because she always wore a faded blue dress. Peggy and her friend surrounded Wanda and asked her to tell how many dresses she had in her closet. Then they burst into laughter.

Q3) How can you estimate that Peggy was a soft girl?

Ans3) Peggy was a soft girl. It was her habit to protect smaller children from bullies. On seeing an animal mistreated, she cried for hours together. She was cruel to Wanda only because she always claimed to have hundred dresses in her closet that Peggy thought could not be true.

Q4) When did Maddie feel embarrassed? What did she do then?

Ans4) Maddie felt embarrassed when Peggy teased Wanda by asking questions on dress. She would say nothing, but she thought if Peggy had not disturbed Wanda. She was pained at heart.

Q5) Who won the girl’ medal? Do you think the winner deserved it?

Ans5) Wanda petonski had won the girls’ medal. She rightfully deserved it because she had designed one hundred dresses. All were different, colourful and beautiful. She was very talented and praised by all.

Some more questions for practice.

Answer following questions in about 40 words.

Q1) Where in the classroom does Wanda sit and why?

Q2) Did Wanda have a hundred dresses? Why did she say so and how did she prove that?

Q3) Why did Maddie think that Peggy would win the contest?

10th class-cbse english (NCERT BOOK-First Flight)(short answers) chapter-4 (From the diary of Anne frank)( Anne frank)

Answer following questions in about 40 words.

Q1) Why did Anne keep a diary?

Ans1) Anne had many ideas and views that she wanted to share. But she had no real friends. So she decided to keep a diary and tell all her secrets to it.

Q2) Explain “teachers are the most unpredictable creatures”.

Ans2) When result was about to be declared, Anne was thinking that there are so many dummies in the class that about a quarter of the class should be kept back. But she believed that no one can predict result as it depended on the moods of the teacher and teachers are the most unpredictable creatures.

Q3) How did Anne justify her being a chatterbox in her first essay?

Ans3) Anne tried to justify that talking is a student’s trait. She tried to control many times. But she failed because she had inherited this trait from her mother. She could do nothing about the inherited trait as her mother was more talkative than her.

Q4) What was the last essay for Anne and write its result?

Ans4) Anne was tired of writing on the same topic again and again. She wanted to write the last essay differently to covey her message to the teacher. Anne was too worried. Her friend Sanne came to her help to write it in verse. Thus she wrote it like a poem. The teacher was impressed.

Some more questions for practice.

Answer following questions in about 40 words.

Q1) Why did Mr.keesing punish Anne?

Q2) In what way a diary is different from a real friend?

Q3) Give two instances to show that Anne was in good books of her teachers?

Q4) Why was the whole class quacking in boots?

Q5) Anne Frank felt suffocated. How?

Q6) How did students conduct in the class?

10th class -cbse english(NCERT BOOK-First Flight)(short answers) chapter-2 (NELSON Mandela: A LONG Walk To Freedom)(Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela)

Answer following questions in about 40 words.

Q1) What ideals does Mandela set out for the future of south Africa in his speech?

Ans1) Nelson Mandela said we got political freedom but we should pledged to liberate all the people from poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discriminations.

Q2)What is Mandela’s opinion regarding oppressor and oppressed?

Ans2) In the eyes of Mandela both oppressor and oppressed are deprived of their humanity. Oppressor is a prisoner of hatred. And oppressed has no confidence in humanity. He is also in the similar manner. So, both needs to be liberated.

Q3) Mandela had ‘hunger for freedom’. How did it change his life?

Ans3) Mandela longed for freedom since his boyhood. He desperately wanted freedom. But as a student he wished freedom only for himself. Gradually his hunger for freedom increased many fold. It became the greater hunger for the freedom of his people. This changed him and he joined the African National congress.

Q4) Why did the inauguration ceremony take place in the amphitheatre formed by the union Buildings in Pretoria?

Ans4) The first democratic, non –racial government was taking birth in South Africa. A ceremony was organized in the amphitheatre formed by the union Buildings in Pretoria. It was attended by dignitaries from more than 140 countries around the world. Thousands of South Africa men, women and children of all races sang and danced with joy on this memorable day of 10^th May 1994.

Q5) What freedom meant to Mandela in childhood?

Ans5) Meaning of freedom for Mandela during childhood was very restricted. It meant to to be free to run in the fields, to swim in the clear stream, free to roast mealies and ride the broad backs of slow moving bulls.

Q6) What was the incident involving a white guard in jail that helped Mandela to continue his struggle against the racial government?

Ans6) In the prison Nelson Mandela and his comrades were kept in extreme painful condition. During those days a guards showed sympathy towards them just for few moments. This reinstalled Mandela faith on the belief that a man’s goodness is a flame which could be hidden but never extinguished.

Some more questions for practice.

Answer following questions in about 40 words.

Q1) How did the military generals conduct on that day?

Q2) What does Mandela refer to as ‘an extraordinary human disaster?

Q3) What hope does Mandela express for his country in his speech?

Q4) What were the pledges taken by Nelson Mandela?

Q5) Why does Mandela address the freedom as ‘new born liberty’?

10th class-cbse english (NCERT BOOK -First Flight)(short answers) chapter-3 (Two Stories about Flying- the black aero plane)(Fredrick Forsyth)

Part-2

Answer following questions in about 40 words.

Q1) What did Frederick Forsyth think when he called Paris control?

Ans1) When Frederick Forsyth called Paris control; he was confident and happy to be in time for his breakfast. He thought to enjoy a good English breakfast.

Q2) Why did the writer decide to go back to Paris?

Ans2) As instructed b Paris control the writer turned his aero plane Dakota west towards England. Suddenly he saw the storm of cloud. They looked like black mountains. It was impossible to cross them. And he did not have enough fuel to fly around them. So he decided to go back to Paris.

Q3) Who rescued the first pilot in Dakota and how?

Ans3) When the writer’s aero plane Dakota was lost in the storm he saw another aero plane that came for his rescue. It had no light on its wings. Dakota followed the mysterious plane that guided him through the mountains of black clouds and took the writer safely across the clouds.

Q4) What problem did the pilot Dakota face in the clouds?

Ans4) The Mountains of black clouds were dark and stormy. Dakota was jumping and twisting in the air. All its instruments became dead. Writer lost the connection with Paris control. He was trapped into the storm

Some more questions for practice.

Answer following questions in about 40 words.

Q1) was the pilot of Dakota able to meet pilot of the black aero plane?

Q2) Where did Dakota plane reach at the end. ? How did the woman in the control surprise the pilot of Dakota plane?

10th class-cbse english (NCERT BOOK-First Flight)(short answers) chapter-3 (Two Stories about Flying-His first flight)(Liam of Flaherty)

Part-1

Answer following questions in about 40 words.

Q1) How did the young seagull’s parents treat him initially when he did not fly?

Ans1) Initially when the young seagull afraid to fly his parents called to him shrilly. They scolding him and threatened to let him starve. The whole family taunted him coward.

Q2) What did young seagull do to attract his mother‘s attention?

Ans2) Young seagull was alone as his whole family had flown away. He was hungry and tried to attract the attention of his mother. He stood on the brink of the ledge, on one leg with other leg hidden under his wing. He closed one eye and pretended to be falling asleep.

Q3) What trick did the young seagull’s mother play to make him fly from his ledge?

Ans3) The young seagull’s mother was much worried about the young seagull who could not mustered courage to fly along with his broth and sister. She played a trick to overcome this problem. She tore a piece of fish and fly towards young seagull. She reached close to him and halted just in front of him. The sight of food made him mad. He dived to catch the food and fell down. In the way he struggled and learnt to fly.

Some more questions for practice.

Answer following questions in about 40 words.

Q1) Young seagull tried to fly but he could not. Why was he afraid to fly?

Q2) Some people are slow learner. How should we behave with them?

10th class-cbse english (NCERT BOOK-First Flight)(short answers) chapter-1 (A letter to God)(G. L. Fuentes)

Answer following questions in about 40 words.

Q1) How did Lencho express his happiness when rains come and how did he explained the raindrops? Why did his happiness turned into sorrow?

A ns1) Lencho field were ready with corn crop. He was waiting for the rain. When the rain came he became very happy. He explained these rain drops as coins. But his happiness turned into sorrow, when the large hailstones started to fall. All of his crop destroyed.

Q2) How did hailstones affect Lencho‘s life?

Ans1) Lencho, a simple farmer, grew corn in his field and he wanted only a downpour. Rain came. He was very happy. But his happiness was short lived. Rain turned into hailstones. Not a leaf remained on the field. The crop was totally destroyed. There was nobody to help him. His life filled with sorrow.

Q3) What kind of a person was the postmaster? What did the postmaster do so as not to shake Lencho’s faith in god?

Ans3) The postmaster was a very kind and fun-loving man. He was impressed by the faith of Lench in God. He decided to help Lencho so that his faith in god did not shake. He collected 70 pesos from his employees and friends for Lencho.

Q4) Why did Lencho angry when he received the letter. How did he do then?

Ans4) When lencho received the letter he was not surprised but he was very angry because the envelope contained only seventy pesos and he had demanded 100 pesos. He knew that God could not deny his demand and he could not have made a mistake also. Immediately he wrote second letter to god and asked for remaining money.

Q5) What made Lencho call the post office employees a bunch of crooks?

Ans5) Lencho thought that god had sent him hundred pesos but post office employees gave him only seventy pesos. They had stolen thirty pesos. So he called the post office employees as a bunch of crooks

Some more questions for practice.

Answer following questions in about 40 words.

Q1) Why did Lencho write a letter to God?

Q2) What did Lencho write in his first letter to God?

Q3) Lencho had only one hope. What was it?

Q4) Why did the postmaster laugh at Lencho’s letter?

Index - 10th class

10^th (Footprints without feet)

Chapter-1 (A Triumph of surgery) (James Herriot)

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Chapter-2 (The thief’s story) (Ruskin Bond)

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Chapter-3 (The midnight visitor) (Robert Arthur)

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Chapter-4 (A question of trust)

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Chapter-5 (Footprints without feet) (H. G. Wells)

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Chapter-6 (The making of scientist) (Robert W. Peterson)

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Chapter-7 (The Necklace) (Guy De Maupassant)

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Chapter-8 (The hack driver) (Sinclair Lewis)

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Chapter-9 (Bholi)(K. A. Abbas)

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Chapter-10(The Book That Saved the Earth) (Claire Boiko)

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10^th (First Flight)

Chapter-1 (A letter to God)(G. L. Fuentes)

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Chapter-2 (NELSON Mandela: A LONG Walk To Freedom) (Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela)

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Chapter-3

Part-1(Two Stories about Flying-His first flight) (Liam of Flaherty)

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Chapter-3

Part-2(Two Stories about Flying- the black aero plane) (Fredrick Forsyth)

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Chapter-4 (From the diary of Anne frank) (Anne frank)

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Chapter-5 (The hundred dresses (part-1)) (El Bsor Estar)

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Chapter-6 (The hundred dresses (part-2)) (El Bsor Estar)

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Chapter-7

Part-1(Glimpses of India-A Baker from Goa) (Lucio Rodrigues)

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Chapter-7

Part-2(Glimpses of India-Coorg) (Lokrsh Abrol)

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Chapter-7

Part-3(Glimpses of India-Tea from Assam) (Arup Kumar Datto)

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Chapter-8 (Mijbil the otter) (Gavin Maxwell)

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Chapter-9 (Madam rides the bus) (Vallikkannan)

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Chapter-10 (The Sermon at Benares) (Betty Renstaw)

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Chapter-11 (The proposal) (Anton Chekov)

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10^th (First Flight)(poem)

Poem-1(Dust of snow) (Robert Frost)

Poem-2(Fire and ice) (Robert Frost)

Poem-3(A tiger in the zoo) (Peter Niblett)

Poem-4(How to tell wild animal) (Carolyn Wells)

Poem-5(The ball poem) (John Berryman)

Poem-6(Amanda) (Robin Klein)

Poem-7(Animals) (Walt Whitman)

Poem-8(The Trees) (Adrienne Rich)

Poem-9(Fog) (Carl Sandburg)

Poem-10(The Tale of custard the dragon) (Ogden Nash)

Poem-11(For Anne Gregory) (William Butler Yeats)

Index - 9th class

9^th (Moments)

Chapter-1 (the lost child)(Mulk Raj Anand)

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Chapter-2 (The Adventures of Toto) (Ruskin Bond)

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Chapter-3 (Iswaran the storyteller) (R. K. Laxman)

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Chapter-4 (In the kingdom of fools) (Kannada Folktalt (ed)A. K. Ramanuja)

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Chapter-5 (The Happy prince) (Oscar Wilde)

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Chapter-6 (Weathering the storm in Erasma) (Harsh Mander)

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Chapter-7 (The last leaf) (O. Henry)

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Chapter-8 (A house is not a home) (Zan Gaudioso)

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Chapter-9 (The Accidental Tourist) (Bill Bryson)

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Chapter-10 (The beggar) (Anton Chekhov)

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9^th class (Beehive)

Chapter-1 (The fun they had) (Issac Asimov)

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Chapter-2(The sound of music)(Deborah Cowley)

part-1 (Evelyn Glennie listen to sound without hearing it)

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part-2 (Bismillah Khan)

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Chapter-3(The little Girl) (Katherine Mansfield)

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Chapter-4(A Truly Beautiful Mind) (Albert Einstein)

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Chapter-5(The snake and the mirror) (Vaikom Muhammad Basheer)

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Chapter-6(My childhood) (A.P.J. Abdul Kalam)

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Chapter-7(Packing) (Jerome K. Jerome)

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Chapter-8(Reach for the top (part-1)) (Santosh Yadav)

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Chapter-8(Reach for the Top (part-2)) (Maria Sharapova)

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Chapter-9(The Bond of love) (Kenneth Anderson)

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Chapter-10(Katmandu) (Vikram Seth)

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Chapter-11(If I were you) (Douglas James)

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9^th class (Beehive)(poem)

Chapter-1 (The Road Not Taken) (Robert Frost)