The Midnight Visitor: 10th Class NCERT CBSE English ‘Footprints without feet‘ Chapter 03 Question: How is Ausable different from other secret agents? (or) What great qualities made Ausable a successful secret agent? (or) How was Ausable different from other secret agents? (or) How is Ausable different from other secret agents? How does …

A Triumph of Surgery: 10th Class NCERT CBSE English ‘Footprints without feet‘ Chapter 01 Question: Why is Mrs. Pumphrey worried about Tricki? Answer: Mrs. Pumphrey is worried about Tricki because he is unwell. He has refused to eat food and had bouts of vomiting. She feels that he is suffering from a …

For Anne Gregory Poem: 10th Class NCERT CBSE English ‘First Flight’ Chapter 22 Question: What does the young man mean by “great honey-coloued /Ramparts at your ear?” Why does he say that young men are “thrown into despair” by them? Answer: The young man in the poem praises the great honey-colored hair …

The Tale of Custard the Dragon Poem: 10th Class NCERT CBSE English ‘First Flight’ Chapter 20 Question: Who are the characters in this poem? List them with their pet names. Answer: The characters in this poem are Belinda, a little girl, and her pets: a little black kitten, a little grey mouse, …

Fog Poem: 10th Class NCERT CBSE English ‘First Flight’ Chapter 20 Question: What does Sandburg think the fog is like? How does the fog come? What does ‘it’ in the third line refer to? Does the poet actually say that the fog is like a cat? Find three things that tell us …

The Trees Poem: 10th Class NCERT CBSE English ‘First Flight’ Chapter 19 Question: Find, in the first stanza, three things that cannot happen in a treeless forest. 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’? …

Animals Poem: 10th Class NCERT CBSE English ‘First Flight’ Chapter 18 Question: Notice the use of the word ‘turn’ in the first line, “I think I could turn and live with animals…”. What is the poet turning from? Answer: In this line here, the poet wants to turn from human into an …

The Ball Poem Poem: 10th Class NCERT CBSE English ‘First Flight’ Chapter 16 Question: Why does the poet say, “I would not intrude on him”? Why doesn’t he offer him money to buy another ball? Answer: The poet says “I will not intrude on him” because he wants the boy to learn …

How to Tell Wild Animals Poem: 10th Class NCERT CBSE English ‘First Flight’ Chapter 15 Question: Does ‘Dyin’ really rhyme with ‘lion’ ? Can you say it in such a way that it does? Answer: No, ‘Dyin’ does not rhyme with ‘lion’. If we change the pronunciation of lion by speaking it …

A Tiger in the Zoo Poem: 10th Class NCERT CBSE English ‘First Flight’ Chapter 14 Question: Read the poem again and work in pairs or groups to do the following tasks. Find the words that describe the movements and actions of the tiger in the cage and in the wild. Arrange them …