First Flight, a textbook in English for Class X, is based

on the new syllabus in English which was prepared as

a follow-up to the National Curriculum Framework,

2005. The English curriculum lays emphasis on

providing a variety of rich, comprehensible inputs to

learners to enable their engagement in learning; and

on recognising the multilinguality of everyday

experience in India. This textbook aims at helping the

learner to read for meaning in context, thus providing

a bank of language to serve as a base for

communication in English.