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Let ’s Begin 1. You have read about Lencho in ‘A Letter to God’, First Flight, 
textbook in English for Class X. How has the story of Lencho 
moved you? What do you think about Lencho’s faith in God 
and his attitude towards the of??cials in the post of??ce? Do 
you think he is right in asking God for support and then 
blaming the people at the post of??ce? Discuss his actions 
with your friends. Why does he do so?  
 2. The summary of the story of Lencho is given below. The 
sequence of the story is jumbled up. 
   Read the story again and rearrange the jumbled sentences 
to make a coherent story.
?
;
UNIT 
1
A Letter to God Write the correct 
order in numbers in 
the column below 
Jumbled sentences
But it rained heavily and hailstorm thrashed his 
corn ??eld and all the corn was destroyed. 
He wrote ‘To God’ on the envelope and posted it. 
Lencho predicted it will rain and it did. He and his 
wife were happy.
Lencho felt desperate but believed that God would 
help him.
Their corn ??eld was longing for water. 
The postman and the postmaster laughed at Lencho's 
letter but were surprised by the faith of the man. 
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Let ’s Begin 1. You have read about Lencho in ‘A Letter to God’, First Flight, 
textbook in English for Class X. How has the story of Lencho 
moved you? What do you think about Lencho’s faith in God 
and his attitude towards the of??cials in the post of??ce? Do 
you think he is right in asking God for support and then 
blaming the people at the post of??ce? Discuss his actions 
with your friends. Why does he do so?  
 2. The summary of the story of Lencho is given below. The 
sequence of the story is jumbled up. 
   Read the story again and rearrange the jumbled sentences 
to make a coherent story.
?
;
UNIT 
1
A Letter to God Write the correct 
order in numbers in 
the column below 
Jumbled sentences
But it rained heavily and hailstorm thrashed his 
corn ??eld and all the corn was destroyed. 
He wrote ‘To God’ on the envelope and posted it. 
Lencho predicted it will rain and it did. He and his 
wife were happy.
Lencho felt desperate but believed that God would 
help him.
Their corn ??eld was longing for water. 
The postman and the postmaster laughed at Lencho's 
letter but were surprised by the faith of the man. 
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Words and Expr Essions 2 – Class x 2
Create a graphic description based on the given summary of  
‘A Letter to God’.
A. Lencho in his corn ??eld.
He wrote a letter to God asking for a hundred pesos 
to sow his ??eld again and to survive until the next 
crop came up.
After some days, Lencho went to the post of??ce to 
receive the money as the postmaster watched him.
He immediately went to the counter and asked for 
a pen and paper, wrote a few lines and posted the 
letter. 
Lencho, his wife, and their children lived in a lonely 
house in a valley.
When the postmaster opened the letter, it said “Oh! 
Thanks for sending the money. But I have received 
only seventy pesos. Next time you please send the 
money directly to me. The people at the post of??ce 
are a bunch of crooks. They have taken the thirty 
pesos.”
He opened the letter and was happy to ??nd the 
money. He counted and found it was only seventy 
pesos. 
The postmaster collected about 70 pesos from his 
colleagues and sent it to Lencho.
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Let ’s Begin 1. You have read about Lencho in ‘A Letter to God’, First Flight, 
textbook in English for Class X. How has the story of Lencho 
moved you? What do you think about Lencho’s faith in God 
and his attitude towards the of??cials in the post of??ce? Do 
you think he is right in asking God for support and then 
blaming the people at the post of??ce? Discuss his actions 
with your friends. Why does he do so?  
 2. The summary of the story of Lencho is given below. The 
sequence of the story is jumbled up. 
   Read the story again and rearrange the jumbled sentences 
to make a coherent story.
?
;
UNIT 
1
A Letter to God Write the correct 
order in numbers in 
the column below 
Jumbled sentences
But it rained heavily and hailstorm thrashed his 
corn ??eld and all the corn was destroyed. 
He wrote ‘To God’ on the envelope and posted it. 
Lencho predicted it will rain and it did. He and his 
wife were happy.
Lencho felt desperate but believed that God would 
help him.
Their corn ??eld was longing for water. 
The postman and the postmaster laughed at Lencho's 
letter but were surprised by the faith of the man. 
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Words and Expr Essions 2 – Class x 2
Create a graphic description based on the given summary of  
‘A Letter to God’.
A. Lencho in his corn ??eld.
He wrote a letter to God asking for a hundred pesos 
to sow his ??eld again and to survive until the next 
crop came up.
After some days, Lencho went to the post of??ce to 
receive the money as the postmaster watched him.
He immediately went to the counter and asked for 
a pen and paper, wrote a few lines and posted the 
letter. 
Lencho, his wife, and their children lived in a lonely 
house in a valley.
When the postmaster opened the letter, it said “Oh! 
Thanks for sending the money. But I have received 
only seventy pesos. Next time you please send the 
money directly to me. The people at the post of??ce 
are a bunch of crooks. They have taken the thirty 
pesos.”
He opened the letter and was happy to ??nd the 
money. He counted and found it was only seventy 
pesos. 
The postmaster collected about 70 pesos from his 
colleagues and sent it to Lencho.
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Unit 1 – A LEttEr to God 3
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B.
C.
D.
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Let ’s Begin 1. You have read about Lencho in ‘A Letter to God’, First Flight, 
textbook in English for Class X. How has the story of Lencho 
moved you? What do you think about Lencho’s faith in God 
and his attitude towards the of??cials in the post of??ce? Do 
you think he is right in asking God for support and then 
blaming the people at the post of??ce? Discuss his actions 
with your friends. Why does he do so?  
 2. The summary of the story of Lencho is given below. The 
sequence of the story is jumbled up. 
   Read the story again and rearrange the jumbled sentences 
to make a coherent story.
?
;
UNIT 
1
A Letter to God Write the correct 
order in numbers in 
the column below 
Jumbled sentences
But it rained heavily and hailstorm thrashed his 
corn ??eld and all the corn was destroyed. 
He wrote ‘To God’ on the envelope and posted it. 
Lencho predicted it will rain and it did. He and his 
wife were happy.
Lencho felt desperate but believed that God would 
help him.
Their corn ??eld was longing for water. 
The postman and the postmaster laughed at Lencho's 
letter but were surprised by the faith of the man. 
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Words and Expr Essions 2 – Class x 2
Create a graphic description based on the given summary of  
‘A Letter to God’.
A. Lencho in his corn ??eld.
He wrote a letter to God asking for a hundred pesos 
to sow his ??eld again and to survive until the next 
crop came up.
After some days, Lencho went to the post of??ce to 
receive the money as the postmaster watched him.
He immediately went to the counter and asked for 
a pen and paper, wrote a few lines and posted the 
letter. 
Lencho, his wife, and their children lived in a lonely 
house in a valley.
When the postmaster opened the letter, it said “Oh! 
Thanks for sending the money. But I have received 
only seventy pesos. Next time you please send the 
money directly to me. The people at the post of??ce 
are a bunch of crooks. They have taken the thirty 
pesos.”
He opened the letter and was happy to ??nd the 
money. He counted and found it was only seventy 
pesos. 
The postmaster collected about 70 pesos from his 
colleagues and sent it to Lencho.
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B.
C.
D.
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Words and Expr Essions 2 – Class x 4
Reading Comp Rehension 
t ext i Given below is a story of the tailor who has been known for his 
skills in cheating and stealing. Read in groups of four or in pairs. 
You may discuss the events and incidences of the story with 
your friends and write them in a sequential manner. 
The Trader and the Tailor
There was a tailor who was known for beating others in the art of 
being light-??ngered and thievery. A trader swore that even with 
a hundred attempts, the tailor would not be able to take a coil of 
thread from him without his knowledge.
The trader was told that many others, more intelligent than 
him, had been beaten by the tailor. They said he should not 
imagine himself so great, for his ego would only give him worse 
troubles in competition with the tailor. Still, the trader became 
more competitive and made a wager that the tailor would not be 
able to rob him of anything.
He wagered an Arab horse with those who taunted him. If 
the tailor failed to steal, then they would have to give him a 
horse instead. That night, the trader lay awake troubled by the 
situation and could not sleep a wink.
In the morning, he put a piece of satin cloth under his arm 
and went to the bazaar and entered the shop and saluted the 
cunning rogue warmly. The tailor sprang up from his seat and 
welcomed the trader, inquiring about his health with cordiality 
exceeding even that of the trader, planting in his heart great  
feelings of affection for him. When the trader heard these songs 
of sweetness from the tailor, he ??ung down the piece of silk 
saying, “Cut this into a coat for me and make it wide below my 
navel so as not to hamper my legs and tight about it to show off 
my ??gure.”
The tailor answered, “O! kindly man, I will do you a hundred 
services,” and accepted the order. He measured the satin and  
inspected  the working surface and all the time chatted away 
to the trader in idle gossip, about other amirs and of bounties 
and gifts he had received from them, and about misers and their 
mean ways, and made the trader laugh with hysterics. During 
this beguiling talk, he was snipping away with his scissors 
rapidly, cutting as fast as his lips moved.
beguiling
cordiality
hamper
snipping
wagered
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Let ’s Begin 1. You have read about Lencho in ‘A Letter to God’, First Flight, 
textbook in English for Class X. How has the story of Lencho 
moved you? What do you think about Lencho’s faith in God 
and his attitude towards the of??cials in the post of??ce? Do 
you think he is right in asking God for support and then 
blaming the people at the post of??ce? Discuss his actions 
with your friends. Why does he do so?  
 2. The summary of the story of Lencho is given below. The 
sequence of the story is jumbled up. 
   Read the story again and rearrange the jumbled sentences 
to make a coherent story.
?
;
UNIT 
1
A Letter to God Write the correct 
order in numbers in 
the column below 
Jumbled sentences
But it rained heavily and hailstorm thrashed his 
corn ??eld and all the corn was destroyed. 
He wrote ‘To God’ on the envelope and posted it. 
Lencho predicted it will rain and it did. He and his 
wife were happy.
Lencho felt desperate but believed that God would 
help him.
Their corn ??eld was longing for water. 
The postman and the postmaster laughed at Lencho's 
letter but were surprised by the faith of the man. 
Unit-1.indd   1 27-Jun-2019   04:21:14 PM
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Words and Expr Essions 2 – Class x 2
Create a graphic description based on the given summary of  
‘A Letter to God’.
A. Lencho in his corn ??eld.
He wrote a letter to God asking for a hundred pesos 
to sow his ??eld again and to survive until the next 
crop came up.
After some days, Lencho went to the post of??ce to 
receive the money as the postmaster watched him.
He immediately went to the counter and asked for 
a pen and paper, wrote a few lines and posted the 
letter. 
Lencho, his wife, and their children lived in a lonely 
house in a valley.
When the postmaster opened the letter, it said “Oh! 
Thanks for sending the money. But I have received 
only seventy pesos. Next time you please send the 
money directly to me. The people at the post of??ce 
are a bunch of crooks. They have taken the thirty 
pesos.”
He opened the letter and was happy to ??nd the 
money. He counted and found it was only seventy 
pesos. 
The postmaster collected about 70 pesos from his 
colleagues and sent it to Lencho.
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B.
C.
D.
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Words and Expr Essions 2 – Class x 4
Reading Comp Rehension 
t ext i Given below is a story of the tailor who has been known for his 
skills in cheating and stealing. Read in groups of four or in pairs. 
You may discuss the events and incidences of the story with 
your friends and write them in a sequential manner. 
The Trader and the Tailor
There was a tailor who was known for beating others in the art of 
being light-??ngered and thievery. A trader swore that even with 
a hundred attempts, the tailor would not be able to take a coil of 
thread from him without his knowledge.
The trader was told that many others, more intelligent than 
him, had been beaten by the tailor. They said he should not 
imagine himself so great, for his ego would only give him worse 
troubles in competition with the tailor. Still, the trader became 
more competitive and made a wager that the tailor would not be 
able to rob him of anything.
He wagered an Arab horse with those who taunted him. If 
the tailor failed to steal, then they would have to give him a 
horse instead. That night, the trader lay awake troubled by the 
situation and could not sleep a wink.
In the morning, he put a piece of satin cloth under his arm 
and went to the bazaar and entered the shop and saluted the 
cunning rogue warmly. The tailor sprang up from his seat and 
welcomed the trader, inquiring about his health with cordiality 
exceeding even that of the trader, planting in his heart great  
feelings of affection for him. When the trader heard these songs 
of sweetness from the tailor, he ??ung down the piece of silk 
saying, “Cut this into a coat for me and make it wide below my 
navel so as not to hamper my legs and tight about it to show off 
my ??gure.”
The tailor answered, “O! kindly man, I will do you a hundred 
services,” and accepted the order. He measured the satin and  
inspected  the working surface and all the time chatted away 
to the trader in idle gossip, about other amirs and of bounties 
and gifts he had received from them, and about misers and their 
mean ways, and made the trader laugh with hysterics. During 
this beguiling talk, he was snipping away with his scissors 
rapidly, cutting as fast as his lips moved.
beguiling
cordiality
hamper
snipping
wagered
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The trader was laughing, the tailor was cutting, the trader 
closed his eyes in joy, the tailor cut extra pieces, tucking them 
under his thighs, hidden away from all but God. From his delight 
at the tailor’s tales, the trader’s former boast went out of his 
mind. What satin? What boast? What wager? The trader was 
drunk on the jokes told by the tailor.
Then the tailor told such an incredible story that the trader 
fell over on his back with laughter. The tailor swiftly stitched a 
swatch of the satin to the hem of his underpants while the trader 
was paying no attention at all, greedily sucking with every guffaw 
at the jests the tailor told. The tailor continued to tell funnier and 
funnier tales and jokes until the trader was completely within 
his power.
With his eyes shut and his reason vanished, the bewildered 
and boastful trader was drunk with joy. And the tailor continued 
to cut, ??lching yet more of the beautiful cloth, with nothing to 
stop him now. And yet the trader begged for more. 
You who becomes the slave of the jest, no story is more 
laughable than you yourself, think on this at the edge of 
your grave. How long will you listen to the lies of this world 
that leave your mind and spirit unhinged? The Universal 
Tailor will cut and stitch the hems of a hundred travellers, 
silly as children.
Eventually the tailor became bored with the whole story and 
told the trader that he better leave before another tale was told, 
“For if I tell another one, the coat will be too tight for you, and 
you will stop laughing and weep tears of blood.”
 Rumi (Abridged)
??lching 
incredible
swatch
unhinged
Look Up 
and Understand Did you enjoy the story of ‘The Trader and the Tailor’? 
The story is summarised below. Read the story again 
with your friend and complete the paragraph using short 
sentences with the given hints.
Once there was a tailor who was known for _______________ 
____________________________ (cheat and thievery). He could 
cheat anyone with his cunning way of deceiving people. A 
trader challenged that the tailor would not be able to cheat 
him. He ____________ (go) to the tailor with ____________________ 
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