Unseen Passage for Class 5 EnglishUnseen Passage for Class 5 | Wild Animals There are wild dogs and pet dogs. Pet dogs are helpers and friends to people. There were no pet dogs 15,000 years ago. Men and women learned how to work with dogs. Dogs helped humans travel from Asia to North America 10,000 years ago by pulling sleds in the snow. People say dogs are “man’s best … [Read more...]
Unseen Passage for Class 4
Unseen Passage for Class 4Unseen Passage for Class 4 | Frenchman Jules Verne was a Frenchman who was born in 1828. He was not an inventor and hew was not a scientist, but he read a great many books on science. He had very strong imagination and he loved adventures although he did not have many great adventures himself. He wrote a number of electing books about the things … [Read more...]
Unseen Passage for Class 9
Unseen Passage for Class 9Unseen Passage for Class 9 | So You Want to be a Cartoonist What writers struggle to express through numerous newspaper columns, the cartoon manages in a pointed one-liner. Little wonder then, that the first thing most of us like to see when we pickup a newspaper is the cartoon. Simple though it may seem, making a cartoon is an art that requires … [Read more...]
Unseen Poem for Class 9
Unseen Poem for Class 9Unseen Poem for Class 9 | The Lapwing Read the following poem carefully answer the questions that follow In the dark that falls before the dawn, When the dew has settled on the thorn, When the stars have been obscured by clouds, A silence covers all things in shrouds. No wind sighs in the mulberry tree, No firefly glimmers wild and free, A … [Read more...]
Unseen Poem for Class 6
Unseen Poem for Class 6Unseen Poem for Class 6 | Poem 1 I lay in sorrow deep distressed:My grief a proud man heard,His looks were cold, he gave me gold.But not a kindly word.My sorrow passed I paid him back The gold he gave to me,Then stood erect and spoke my thanks And blessed his charity.I lay in want and grief, and pain A poor man passed my way … [Read more...]
Unseen Passage for Class 6
Unseen Passage for Class 6 | Class 8 English ReadingUnseen Passage for Class 6 | Passage 1 The giraffe is the tallest of all living land animals. A male can go up to 18 feet and a female up to 15 feet. Such height enables them to escape the competition for ground level grass that exists among other leaf-eaters. It also gives him a long range of vision. He takes the warning … [Read more...]
Unseen Passage for Class 10 English Main course Reading Skills
Unseen Passage for Class 10 English Main course Reading Skills Syllabus Qs. 1-2. This section will have two unseen passages of a total length of 700-750 words. The arrangement within the reading section is as follows : Q. 1. A Factual passage 300-350 words with eight very short answer type questions. (8 marks) Q. 2. A Discursive passage of 350-400 words with four short … [Read more...]
Unseen Passage for Class 7
Unseen Passage for Class 7Unseen Passage for Class 7 | Passage - 1 Our ancestors had great difficulty in getting books. Now, our difficulty is what to read. There are books and books but our hours of reading are very few. Therefore, choice becomes essential. We should be very careful about what we read. There are books which poison our lives by suggesting evils. We should … [Read more...]
Unseen Poem for Class 7
Unseen Poem for Class 7Unseen Poem for Class 7 | Poem 1 Fame is a food that dead men eat,I have no stomach for such meat.In little light and narrow room,They eat in the silent tomb.With no kind voice of comrade near To bid the feaster be of cheer.But friendship is a noble thing,Of friendship it is good to sing. … [Read more...]
Unseen Poem for Class 8
Unseen Poem for Class 8 EnglishType 1 Unseen Poem for Class 8 - Poem 1 Read the poems given below and answer the questions/complete the statements that follow:Be the BestIf you can't be a pine on the top of the hill,Be a scrub in the valley—but beThe best little scrub by the side of the rill,Be a bush if you can't be a treeIf you can't be a bush … [Read more...]