Class 10 English

She was one of those pretty, young ladies, born as if through an error of destiny, into a

At the age of twenty-two, a former ‘scout of the year’ excited the scientific world with a new

THE two boys started in surprise at the fresh muddy imprints of a pair of bare feet. What was a

Everyone thought that Horace Danby was a good, honest citizen. He was about fifty years old and

Ausable did not fit any description of a secret agent Fowler had ever read. Following him down

I WAS still a thief when I met Anil. And though only 15, I was an experienced and fairly

I was really worried about Tricki this time. I had pulled up my car when I saw him in the

‘The Proposal’’ is a one-act play, a farce, by the Russian short story writer and

This poem is a conversation between a young man and a young woman.

Gautama Buddha (563 B.C. - 483 B.C.) began life as a prince named Siddhartha Gautama, in

This poem is written in the style of a ballad - a song or poem that tells a story. This poem is

n this sensitive story, an eight-year old girl’s first bus journey into the world outside her

The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbour and city
on

Early in the New Year of 1956 I travelled to Southern Iraq. By then it had crossed my mind that

The trees inside are moving out into the forest,
the forest that was empty all these

Pranjol, a youngster from Assam, is Rajvir’s classmate at school in Delhi. Pranjol’s father is

Coorg is coffee country, famous for its rainforests and spices.

This is a pen-portrait of a traditional Goan village baker who still has an important place in

Every child feels that she or he is controlled and instructed not to do one thing or

Anneliese Marie ‘Anne’ Frank (12 June 1929 - February/March 1945) was a German born Jewish girl

This humorous poem suggests some dangerous ways to identify (or ‘tell’) wild animals!

The moon was coming up in the east, behind me, and stars were shining in the clear sky above

The young seagull was alone on his ledge. His two brothers and his sister had already flown

This poem contrasts a tiger in the zoo with the tiger in its natural habitat. The poem moves

In this extract from his autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, Mandela speaks about a historic

Some say the world will end in fire
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of

The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree

The house - the only one in the entire valley - sat on the crest of a low hill. From this

1. “And no one buys a ball back. Money is external”. What does the poet imply by this