English Notes

  Reading 1 2. a. Who was Pocahontas? How did she get her name? Pocahontas was the daughter of Chief Powhatan. She got her name for her beau...

  Poem appreciation (Answers for questions given on page no 42) 1. What did God want to test in human beings by sending the amazing gift? ...

  Answers to textual questions given in page in 105 2. Answer the following questions. a. The poem works through a contrast of the ‘the ...

  1. Complete the table to bring out the contrast in the culture of the two sets of people.      Two scavengers in a truc...

Thinking About the Poem (Page 30) 1.Read the poem again and work in pairs or groups to do the following tasks. 1. Find the words that descr...

  2. Answer the following questions. (Page 29) a. ‘She was thinking, rather wishing, for an even that might hurl her out of the world …….”...

  Introduction In the poem, the poet says that the snake tries to escape from being hit by the stick held by a person who is trying to kil...

Introduction The last leaf is a touching story of how a painter inspires a girl to live and in the process, loses his life. Summary Tw...

Summary: The narrator of the story, Jerome, was proud of his packing skills. He was supposed to go on a trip with his friends George and Har...