Tag Archives: CBSE Class 10 English Solutions

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 …

Dust of Snow Poem: 10th Class NCERT CBSE English ‘First Flight’ Chapter 12 Question: What is a “dust of snow”? What does the poet say has changed his mood? How has the poet’s mood changed? Answer: The ‘dust of snow’ means the fine particles or flakes of snow. The sudden shower in …

The Proposal: 10th Class NCERT CBSE English ‘First Flight’ Chapter 11 Question: What does Chubukov at first suspect that Lomov has come for? Is he sincere when he later says “And I’ve always loved you, my angel, as if you were my own son”? Find reasons for your answer from the play. …

The Sermon at Benares: 10th Class NCERT CBSE English ‘First Flight’ Chapter 10 Question: When her son dies, Kisa Gotami goes from house to house. What does she ask for? Does she get it? Why not? Answer: When Kisa Gotami’s son died, she went from house to house, asking if she could …