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Letter Writing – 6 Creative Writing – 66 Complaint to Forest Officer about illegal felling As the Sarpanch of your village, write a letter to the District Forest Officer drawing his attention to illegal felling of trees from the forest under your jurisdiction. Request him …
Comprehension Exercise – 18. Study the passage and answer the questions that follow. Passage sourced from Washington Post Worldview China’s democratic dream was snuffed out as night fell on June 3, 1989. In mid-April, thousands of idealistic university students had gathered in the heart of …
Precis (Summary) Writing – 17 Creative Writing – 64 They write-up has a total of 401 words. Write the summary of the same in not more than 140 words. Passage sourced from Betrand Russel’s book ‘Values of Scepticism I wish to propose for the reader’s …
Comprehension Exercise – 17. Model ISC unseen comprehension question set. Read the following write-up and answer the questions. Write-up sourced from BBC On 1 June 1999, a piece of computer software was released that changed the way we listen to music forever. [Line 1 to 2] …
Comprehension Exercise – 16. Model ISC unseen comprehension question set. Read the following write-up and answer the questions. Article taken from Washington Post After weeks of heightened tensions between Iran and the United States, national security adviser John Bolton’s visit to Abu Dhabi this week …
Precis (Summary) Writing – 16 Creative Writing – 61 The following write up has 381 words. Write its precis in not more than 135 words. Passage sourced from BBC On 27 March, the 19-year-old accused the headmaster of the madrassa she attended of calling her …
Precis (Summary) Writing – 15 Creative Writing – 60 The following passage has 378 words. Your precis should ideally be within 135 words. Passage from the story ‘Home’ by Somerset Maugham The farm lay in a hollow among the Somersetshire hills, an old-fashioned stone house …
Precis (Summary) Writing – 14 Creative Writing – 59 The following passage has close to 310 words. Write its summary in no more than 110 words. Passage from stories by Ruskin Bond I started out by saying that nature and the railways had little or …
Composition – 4 Creative Writing – 58 When you were 10 years old, you had to accompany your father for a journey to a village a few kilometers away. You had to cross a wide river by a ferry boat. Describe how you felt as …
Comprehension Exercise – 15. Study the story below and answer the questions underneath. Excerpt from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys’ house. The wife had …