Month: November 2024

Class 10th English (Footprints Without Feet)

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1. Why is Mrs Pumphrey worried about Tricki? Ans: Mrs Pumphrey is worried and distraught because Tricki would not eat anything. He even is not ready to eat his favorite dishes. Tricki has bouts of vomiting and spends all his time lying on the rug and panting. Tricki does not even want to go for … Read more

Class 10th English (First Flight)

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Ans: The “great honey- colored/Ramparts at your ear” refers to the beautiful yellow colored hair that falls at the woman’s ear and cover it like a wall around a fort. He says that the young men are “thrown into despair” by them because they look so beautiful on the woman that her beauty gets thoroughly … Read more

Class 10th English (First Flight)

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Ans: The characters in this poem are Belinda, a little black kitten, a little grey mouse, a little. yellow dog, a little pet dragon and a pirate. Character Kitten Mouse Dog Mustard Dragon Custard Ans: Custard cried for a nice, safe cage because it was a coward. It is called a ‘cowardly dragon’ because everybody … Read more

Class 10th English (First Flight)

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1. (i) What does Sandburg think the fog is like? (ii) How does the fog come? (iii) What does ‘it’ in the third line refer to? (iv) Does the poet actually say that the fog is like a cat? Find three things that tell us that the fog is like a cat. Ans: (i) According … Read more

Class 10th English (First Flight)

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(ii) What picture do these words create in your mind: “… sun bury its feet in shadow…”? What could the poet mean by the sun’s ‘feet’? Answer: (i) The three things that cannot happen in a treeless forest are the sitting of a bird on trees, the hiding of insects and the sun burying its … Read more

Class 10th English (First Flight)

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Ans: The poet is turning away from living with other humans as he finds them complicated and false. He would rather live with animals that are self-contained and non-complaining. Ans: The poet has drawn three comparisons between humans and animals. -Humans sweat and work hard to make a living and later whine and sulk about … Read more

Class 10th English (First Flight)

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1. How old do you think Amanda is? How do you know this? Ans: Amanda must be around 9-10 years old. She is a school going girl. The things that her mother scolds her for, are all typical instructions given to a 9 or 10 year old girl. 2. Who do you think is speaking … Read more

Class 10th English (First Flight)

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1. Why does the poet say, “I would not intrude on him”? Why doesn’t he offer him money to buy another ball? Ans: The poet wants the boy to experience the loss. He should learn that it is the part of life. That’s why the poet doesn’t want to interfere and wants the boy to … Read more

Class 10th English (First Flight)

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Ans: No, ‘dying’ does not rhyme with ‘lion’. It is for this reason that the poet has used ‘dyin’ so that when we pronounce it, it rhymes with ‘lion’. Ans: The poet suggests that if a large and tawny beast in the jungle in the east advances towards us, then it is an Asian lion. … Read more

Class 10th English (First Flight)

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1.Read the poem again, and work in pairs or groups to do the following tasks. (i) Find the words that describe the movements and actions of the tiger in the case and in the wild. Arrange them in two columns. (ii) Find the words that describe the two places, and arrange them in two columns. … Read more