First Flight — Prose
Chapter 1 – A Letter to God
Chapter 2 – Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Chapter 3 – Two Stories about Flying
Chapter 4 – From the Diary of Anne Frank
Chapter 5 – The Hundred Dresses – I
Chapter 6 – The Hundred Dresses – II
Chapter 7 – Glimpses of India
Chapter 8 – Mijbil the Otter
Chapter 9 – Madam Rides the Bus
Chapter 10 – The Sermon at Benares
Chapter 11 – The Proposal

First Flight — Poems
Poem 1 – Dust of Snow
Poem 2 – Fire and Ice
Poem 3 – A Tiger in the Zoo
Poem 4 – How to Tell Wild Animals
Poem 5 – The Ball Poem
Poem 6 – Amanda
Poem 7 – Animals
Poem 8 – The Trees
Poem 9 – Fog
Poem 10 – The Tale of Custard the Dragon
Poem 11 – For Anne Gregory

Footprints Without Feet — Supplementary Reader
Chapter 1 – A Triumph of Surgery
Chapter 2 – The Thief’s Story
Chapter 3 – The Midnight Visitor
Chapter 4 – A Question of Trust
Chapter 5 – Footprints without Feet
Chapter 6 – The Making of a Scientist
Chapter 7 – The Necklace
Chapter 8 – The Hack Driver
Chapter 9 – Bholi
Chapter 10 – The Book that Saved the Earth

About the Textbook

The ASSEB Class 10 English course includes two books: First Flight (main reader with prose and poems) and Footprints Without Feet (supplementary reader). This page provides complete question answers for all chapters and poems to help students prepare for the HSLC examination.