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Class 10

English: First Flight

57 lessons in 9 chapters, explained in plain words.

A Letter to God

  1. Lencho, the rain and the hail
  2. The letter, the postmaster and the irony
  3. Character and conflict
  4. Language: storms, hope, clauses and metaphors
  5. Two poems by Robert Frost
  6. Sending money and writing letters

Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

  1. The inauguration
  2. History, courage and love
  3. Twin obligations and the meaning of freedom
  4. Language: nouns, names, idioms and homophones
  5. Balance and contrast; opinion and speech
  6. A Tiger in the Zoo

Two Stories about Flying

  1. His First Flight
  2. Trying in spite of fear
  3. The Black Aeroplane
  4. Language: 'black', 'fly' and words for flight
  5. How to Tell Wild Animals
  6. The Ball Poem

From the Diary of Anne Frank

  1. Diaries, journals, logs and memoirs
  2. Why Anne keeps a diary
  3. Anne and Mr Keesing
  4. Compound words and phrasal verbs
  5. Idioms, dictionary skills and contractions
  6. Writing a diary; listening to Pepys
  7. Amanda!

Glimpses of India

  1. A Baker from Goa
  2. Personal writing and dying crafts
  3. Coorg
  4. Collocations
  5. Tea from Assam
  6. -ing and -ed adjectives; talking about tea
  7. The Trees

Mijbil the Otter

  1. Caring for a pet
  2. Mij arrives
  3. The flight
  4. Mij in London
  5. Would and used to; noun modifiers
  6. Quantities, charades and description
  7. Fog

Madam Rides the Bus

  1. Valli's dream
  2. Madam boards the bus
  3. The ride to town
  4. The journey back
  5. Speaking and writing from experience
  6. The Tale of Custard the Dragon

The Sermon at Benares

  1. The Buddha's path to enlightenment
  2. Kisa Gotami and the mustard seed
  3. Old-fashioned English and semicolons
  4. Grief then and now
  5. For Anne Gregory

The Proposal

  1. Proposals and weddings
  2. Lomov comes to propose
  3. The Oxen Meadows
  4. Guess and Squeezer
  5. Translated English, stress and phrases
  6. Reported speech
  7. Anger, scripts, partners and homophones