Section A : First Flight (Prose and Poetry)

FIRST FLIGHT : A. Prose

1. A LETTER TO GOD —G.L. Fuentes

2. NELSON MANDELA : LONG WALK TO FREEDOM —Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

3. TWO STORIES ABOUT FLYING

I. HIS FIRST FLIGHT–Liam O'Flaherty

II. BLACK AEROPLANE –Frederick Forsyth

4. FROM THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK —Anne Frank

5. THE HUNDRED DRESSES-I —El Bsor Ester

6. THE HUNDRED DRESSES-II —El Bsor Ester

7. GLIMPSES OF INDIA

8. MILBIL THE OTTER —Gavin Maxwell

9. MADAM RIDES THE BUS —Vallikkannan

10. THE SERMON AT BENARES —Betty Renshaw

11. THE PROPOSAL —Anton Chekhov

FIRST FLIGHT : B. POETRY

1. DUST OF SNOW —Robert Frost

2. FIRE AND ICE —Robert Frost

3. A TIGER IN THE ZOO —Leslie Morris

4. HOW TO TELL WILD ANIMALS —Carolyn Wells

5. THE BALL POEM —John Berryman

6. AMANDA —Robin Klein

7. ANIMALS —Walt Whitman

8. THE TREES —Adrienne Rich

9. FOG —Carl Sandburg

10. THE TALE OF CUSTARD THE DRAGON —Ogden Nash

11. FOR ANNE GREGORY —William Butler Yeats

Section B : Footprints Without Feet (Supplementary Reader)

1. A TRIUMPH OF SURGERY —James Herriot

2. THE THIEF’S STORY —Ruskin Bond

3. THE MIDNIGHT VISITOR —Robert Arthur

4. A QUESTION OF TRUST —Victory Canning

5. FOOTPRINTS WITHOUT FEET —H. G. Wells

6. THE MAKING OF A SCIENTIST —Robert W. Peterson

7. THE NECKLACE —Guy De Maupassant

8. THE HACK DRIVER —Sinclair Lewis

9. BHOLI —K. A. Abbas

10. THE BOOK THAT SAVED THE EARTH —Claire Boiko

Section C : Grammar (Reading and Writing)

1. READING SECTION 2. GRAMMAR (Tenses, Modals, Passive Voice, Subject-Verb Concord, Reporting, Clauses, Determiners, Preposition) 3. LETTER WRITING

Appendix : Chapterwise Multiple Choice Questions

Board Examination Paper (With Solved & OMR Sheet)