Glimpses of India · Class 10 English · First Flight: quick revision, 36 bites

What the Elders Miss

The eaters went. The makers stayed.

Goa's elders reminisce **nostalgically** about the good old **Portuguese days** and their famous loaves.

Takeaway. The Portuguese left; their bread did not.

How We Know the Trade Survives

Five proofs, all in the present tense.

Takeaway. He shows survival rather than stating it.

The Vocabulary of the Piece

Four Goan words worth marks.

Takeaway. Learn the four words exactly; the paper asks for them by name.

The Baker's Round

Twice a day, every day.

Takeaway. He was a fixture of the household's day, not a shop to be visited.

What the Children Ran For

Not the bread.

The loaves were bought by the **maid-servant** — 'some Paskine or Bastine'.

Takeaway. Loaves for the elders; bangles for the children.

How He Arrived

A musical entry.

Takeaway. A whole scene built from sound, gesture and smell.

Which Bread, Which Occasion

The matching question, every year.

Takeaway. Because the occasions need him, the furnace is 'absolutely essential'.

What the Pader Wore

Two costumes, two eras.

Takeaway. A man in half pants below the knee still gets the comment.

How He Was Paid

No receipts. A wall.

Bills were collected at the **end of the month**, and monthly accounts were recorded **on some wall in pencil**.

Takeaway. A trade run on memory and trust, in a village where nobody moved away.

A Prosperous Trade

Proof you could see across a street.

Takeaway. The evidence for a profitable profession is comic and visible.

The Tiger and the Tea

Why brush at all?

After the bread the children did not brush their teeth. Who would pluck a **mango-leaf** for a toothbrush?

Takeaway. The one passage where the tone turns playful rather than nostalgic.

Answering on the Baker

The marks are in the exact words.

Use the terms the text uses: **pader**, **kabai**, **bol**, **bolinhas**, **bread-bangles**, the **wall in pencil**, the **jackfruit**.

Takeaway. Exact vocabulary, and the right label for the tone.

Where Coorg Is

A piece of heaven, precisely located.

Takeaway. Two cities fix the place; one fact fixes its status.

Rainforest and Coffee

One hard number in a page of praise.

**Evergreen rainforests cover thirty per cent** of the district.

Takeaway. Learn the thirty per cent — it is the section's most asked figure.

The Season of Joy

When to go, and when not to.

Takeaway. A travel writer honest about the rain is worth trusting about the rest.

Where the Kodavus Came From

Two stories, neither settled.

Takeaway. GREEK = army · ARAB = coat.

Kuppia and Kuffia

Two words one letter apart.

Takeaway. Coorgi coat = kuppia; Arab garment = kuffia.

The Martial Tradition

A reputation written into law.

Takeaway. The last point is the section's single most asked fact.

The Kaveri

A small district feeding a great river.

The **Kaveri** is fed by the hills and forests of Coorg — the district is where its water comes from.

Takeaway. The district's forests supply a river much of south India depends on.

Squirrels and Langurs

Mischief in the water.

They let **half-eaten fruit** fall into the river — purely for the **pleasure of the splash** and the rings it sends across the clear water.

Takeaway. One of the few sentences in the piece written purely for delight.

Adventure in Coorg

Five sports, and a promise.

Takeaway. The sentence is aimed at readers who do not think themselves adventurous.

Brahmagiri, Nisargadhama, Bylakuppe

A view, an island, and a surprise.

Takeaway. Three proper nouns worth learning exactly.

How the Piece Persuades

Read the order of the paragraphs.

Takeaway. This is a travel article, and its shape is the argument.

Answering on Coorg

Names and numbers carry the marks.

Fix these: **Kodagu · Karnataka · Madikeri · 30% rainforest · September–March · kuppia/kuffia · General Cariappa · Kaveri · mahseer · Brahmagiri · Nisargadhama · Bylakuppe**.

Takeaway. A full answer on the people has four parts, not one.

How This Piece Is Different

A story, not a description.

The other two pieces describe. This one has **characters, dialogue and a journey**: two schoolboys travelling to Upper Assam.

Takeaway. Somebody in the story is being told the information, and so are we.

The People in the Story

Who is who.

Takeaway. An outsider, an insider, and the man who runs the estate.

Chai-Garam

The most ordinary opening possible.

A vendor calls **'Chai-garam… garam-chai'** in a high-pitched voice; Pranjol asks for two cups.

Takeaway. A piece about tea begins with tea being sold on a train.

The Facts Rajvir Supplies

Three numbers to learn.

Takeaway. These four are the most asked facts in the section.

Outsider and Insider

One boy admires; the other reads a novel.

Takeaway. The pairing lets information arrive naturally, without a lecture.

The First Sight of the Garden

The best writing in the section.

Takeaway. Scenery and factory in the same paragraph.

How Tea Was Discovered

Two stories, neither provable.

Takeaway. No one really knows who discovered tea; these are offered as legends.

Assam's Scale

Said casually, and enormous.

'Assam has the **largest concentration of plantations in the world**.'

Takeaway. The size of the industry reaches us through a shrug.

The Arrival

From the junction to the estate.

Takeaway. Two proper nouns to remember: Mariani and Dhekiabari.

Inside the Estate

The dolls, seen close up.

Takeaway. The distant doll-like figures turn out to be people at work.

The Second Flush

The term that closes the section.

Takeaway. May to July, and the best tea — a certain one-mark question.

Answering on Tea from Assam

Numbers, names, and one contrast.

Fix: **eighty crore cups · 2700 BC · sixteenth century · eyelids and ten plants · Mariani · Dhekiabari · second flush, May–July**.

Takeaway. Facts for the short questions; the contrast for the longer ones.