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IGCSE Class 5 English

Chapter-wise notes, previous year papers, sample papers and Q&A for IGCSE Class 5 english — free, syllabus-aligned, exam-ready.

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1

Papa's Spectacles

Papa's Spectacles is a current Class 5 CBSE English Santoor poem. These notes give summary, theme, vocabulary, reading comprehension, grammar practice, writing tasks, common mistakes, and answers.

CBSE⏱ 22 minRead chapter
2

Gone with the Scooter

Gone with the Scooter is a current Class 5 CBSE English Santoor story. These notes give summary, theme, vocabulary, reading comprehension, grammar practice, writing tasks, common mistakes, and answers.

CBSE⏱ 22 minRead chapter
3

The Rainbow

The Rainbow is a current Class 5 CBSE English Santoor poem. These notes give summary, theme, vocabulary, reading comprehension, grammar practice, writing tasks, common mistakes, and answers.

CBSE⏱ 22 minRead chapter
4

The Wise Parrot

The Wise Parrot is a current Class 5 CBSE English Santoor story. These notes give summary, theme, vocabulary, reading comprehension, grammar practice, writing tasks, common mistakes, and answers.

CBSE⏱ 22 minRead chapter
5

The Frog

The Frog is a current Class 5 CBSE English Santoor poem. These notes give summary, theme, vocabulary, reading comprehension, grammar practice, writing tasks, common mistakes, and answers.

CBSE⏱ 22 minRead chapter
6

What a Tank!

What a Tank! is a current Class 5 CBSE English Santoor story. These notes give summary, theme, vocabulary, reading comprehension, grammar practice, writing tasks, common mistakes, and answers.

CBSE⏱ 22 minRead chapter
7

Gilli Danda

Gilli Danda is a current Class 5 CBSE English Santoor story. These notes give summary, theme, vocabulary, reading comprehension, grammar practice, writing tasks, common mistakes, and answers.

CBSE⏱ 22 minRead chapter
8

The Decision of the Panchayat

The Decision of the Panchayat is a current Class 5 CBSE English Santoor story. These notes give summary, theme, vocabulary, reading comprehension, grammar practice, writing tasks, common mistakes, and answers.

CBSE⏱ 22 minRead chapter
9

Vocation

Vocation is a current Class 5 CBSE English Santoor poem. These notes give summary, theme, vocabulary, reading comprehension, grammar practice, writing tasks, common mistakes, and answers.

CBSE⏱ 22 minRead chapter
10

Glass Bangles

Glass Bangles is a current Class 5 CBSE English Santoor story. These notes give summary, theme, vocabulary, reading comprehension, grammar practice, writing tasks, common mistakes, and answers.

CBSE⏱ 22 minRead chapter
15

Ice Cream Man

Ice Cream Man by Rachel Field is a current Class 5 CBSE English poem from NCERT Marigold. These notes provide summary, theme, vocabulary, poetic devices, reading comprehension, writing practice, and answers.

CBSE⏱ 10 minRead chapter
16

Teamwork

Teamwork by Jan Nigro is a current Class 5 CBSE English poem from NCERT Marigold. These notes provide summary, theme, vocabulary, poetic devices, comprehension, writing practice, and answers.

CBSE⏱ 10 minRead chapter
17

My Shadow

My Shadow by R.L. Stevenson is a current Class 5 CBSE English poem from NCERT Marigold. These notes cover a child's fascination with their shadow, observation, rhyme, and wonder with vocabulary and practice.

CBSE⏱ 10 minRead chapter
18

Crying

Crying by Galway Kinnell is a current Class 5 CBSE English poem from NCERT Marigold. These notes cover emotional expression, humour, vocabulary, poetic devices, comprehension, and writing practice.

CBSE⏱ 10 minRead chapter
19

The Lazy Frog

The Lazy Frog is a current Class 5 CBSE English poem from NCERT Marigold. These notes cover the story of a lazy frog, its behaviour, humour, vocabulary, poetic devices, comprehension, and writing practice.

CBSE⏱ 10 minRead chapter
20

Class Discussion

Class Discussion is a current Class 5 CBSE English poem from NCERT Marigold. These notes cover a teacher-led discussion, different opinions, speaking up, vocabulary, and practice questions.

CBSE⏱ 10 minRead chapter
21

Topsy Turvy Land

Topsy Turvy Land by H.E. Wilkinson is a current Class 5 CBSE English poem from NCERT Marigold. These notes cover an upside-down world, imagination, humour, vocabulary, and practice questions.

CBSE⏱ 10 minRead chapter
22

Nobody's Friend

Nobody's Friend by Enid Blyton is a current Class 5 CBSE English poem from NCERT Marigold. These notes cover sharing, friendship, vocabulary, poetic devices, comprehension, and writing practice.

CBSE⏱ 10 minRead chapter
23

Sing a Song of People

Sing a Song of People by Lois Lenski is a current Class 5 CBSE English poem from NCERT Marigold. These notes cover city life, people rushing, buses and trains, urban observation, vocabulary, and practice.

CBSE⏱ 10 minRead chapter
24

Malu Bhalu

Malu Bhalu is a current Class 5 CBSE English poem from NCERT Marigold. These notes cover a polar bear learning to swim, growing up, courage, vocabulary, poetic devices, and practice questions.

CBSE⏱ 10 minRead chapter
25

Wonderful Waste

Wonderful Waste is a current Class 5 CBSE English story from NCERT Marigold. These notes cover a Kerala story about a cook who turns vegetable peels into avial, creativity, and no-waste with vocabulary and practice.

CBSE⏱ 10 minRead chapter
26

Flying Together

Flying Together is a current Class 5 CBSE English story from NCERT Marigold. This Panchatantra tale about geese and a hunter teaches unity, wisdom, and teamwork with vocabulary and practice questions.

CBSE⏱ 10 minRead chapter
27

Robinson Crusoe Discovers a Footprint

Robinson Crusoe Discovers a Footprint is a current Class 5 CBSE English story from NCERT Marigold. Adapted from Defoe's novel, it covers Crusoe's shock, fear, survival, and vocabulary with practice questions.

CBSE⏱ 10 minRead chapter
28

My Elder Brother

My Elder Brother by Munshi Premchand is a current Class 5 CBSE English story from NCERT Marigold. These notes cover two brothers who learn from each other, values, vocabulary, and practice.

CBSE⏱ 10 minRead chapter
29

Rip Van Winkle

Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving is a current Class 5 CBSE English story from NCERT Marigold. This adapted tale covers Rip's 20-year sleep, a changing world, time, vocabulary, and practice.

CBSE⏱ 10 minRead chapter
30

The Talkative Barber

The Talkative Barber is a current Class 5 CBSE English story from NCERT Marigold. From Arabian Nights, this humorous tale about a barber who talks too much covers vocabulary, comprehension, and practice.

CBSE⏱ 10 minRead chapter
31

Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver's Travels is a current Class 5 CBSE English story from NCERT Marigold. Adapted from Jonathan Swift's classic, it covers Gulliver in Lilliput, perspective, vocabulary, and practice.

CBSE⏱ 10 minRead chapter
32

The Little Bully

The Little Bully is a current Class 5 CBSE English story from NCERT Marigold. These notes cover a boy who bullies others, the consequences, learning to be kind, vocabulary, and practice.

CBSE⏱ 10 minRead chapter
33

Around the World

Around the World is a current Class 5 CBSE English story from NCERT Marigold. Adapted from Jules Verne's classic, it covers Phileas Fogg's 80-day journey, adventure, geography, vocabulary, and practice.

CBSE⏱ 10 minRead chapter
34

Who Will Be Ningthou

Who Will Be Ningthou is a current Class 5 CBSE English story from NCERT Marigold. This Manipuri folk tale about choosing a worthy leader covers leadership qualities, vocabulary, and practice.

CBSE⏱ 10 minRead chapter

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