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Class 10 English NCERT Notes — First Flight & Footprints Without Feet

Chapter-wise summaries • Word meanings • Q&A • Extract-based MCQs • Practice sets

Use the links below to open chapter notes from First Flight and Footprints Without Feet. Each post includes a short summary, meanings, solved questions, and practice MCQs. Ideal for unit tests, pre-boards, and final revision.

First Flight — Prose First Flight — Poetry Footprints Without Feet Writing & Grammar

First Flight — Prose (Class 10)

1. A Letter to God — G. L. Fuentes
   • Poem with this unit: Dust of Snow — Robert Frost
   • Poem with this unit: Fire and Ice — Robert Frost
2. Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom — Nelson Mandela
   • Poem with this unit: A Tiger in the Zoo — Leslie Norris
3. Two Stories about Flying:
   1. His First Flight — Liam O’Flaherty
   2. Black Aeroplane — Frederick Forsyth
   • Poem with this unit: How to Tell Wild Animals — Carolyn Wells
   • MCQs on “How to Tell Wild Animals”
   • Poem with this unit: The Ball Poem — John Berryman
4. From the Diary of Anne Frank — Anne Frank
   • Poem with this unit: Amanda! — Robin Klein
   • Summary of “Amanda!”
5. The Hundred Dresses–I — Eleanor Estes
6. The Hundred Dresses–II — Eleanor Estes
   • Poem with this unit: Animals — Walt Whitman
7. Glimpses of India:
   1. A Baker from Goa — Lucio Rodrigues
   2. Coorg — Lokesh Abrol
   3. Tea from Assam — Arup Kumar Datta
   • Poem with this unit: The Trees — Adrienne Rich
8. Mijbil the Otter — Gavin Maxwell
   • Poem with this unit: Fog — Carl Sandburg
9. Madam Rides the Bus — Vallikkannan
   • Poem with this unit: The Tale of Custard the Dragon — Ogden Nash
   • MCQs on “Madam Rides the Bus”
   • MCQs on “The Tale of Custard the Dragon”
10. The Sermon at Benares — Gautama Buddha (adapted)
    • Poem with this unit: For Anne Gregory — W. B. Yeats
11. The Proposal — Anton Chekhov
    • Summary
    • Questions & Answers
    • Important Questions
    • MCQs on “The Proposal”

First Flight — Poetry (Quick Access)

• Dust of Snow — Robert Frost
• Fire and Ice — Robert Frost
• A Tiger in the Zoo — Leslie Norris
• How to Tell Wild Animals — Carolyn Wells MCQs
• The Ball Poem — John Berryman
• Amanda! — Robin Klein
• The Trees — Adrienne Rich
• Fog — Carl Sandburg
• The Tale of Custard the Dragon — Ogden Nash MCQs
• For Anne Gregory — W. B. Yeats

Footprints Without Feet — Supplementary Reader

1. A Triumph of Surgery — James Herriot
   • MCQs on “A Triumph of Surgery”
2. The Thief’s Story — Ruskin Bond
3. The Midnight Visitor — Robert Arthur
4. A Question of Trust — Victor Canning
5. Footprints without Feet — H. G. Wells
6. The Making of a Scientist — Robert W. Peterson
7. The Necklace — Guy de Maupassant
8. The Hack Driver — Sinclair Lewis
   • MCQs — The Hack Driver (Comprehensive Test)
9. Bholi — K. A. Abbas
   • MCQs on “Bholi”
10. The Book That Saved the Earth — Claire Boiko

Writing Skills & Grammar (Class 10)

Grammar

• Determiners
• Tenses
• Modals
• Subject–Verb Concord
• Reported Speech
  • Commands & Requests
  • Statements
  • Questions

Writing

• Descriptive Paragraph (100–120 words)
• Story / Diary Entry (100–120 words)

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