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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 …
Comprehension Exercise – 14. Study the article below and answer the questions underneath. Write-up sourced from BBC “I was told I didn’t look like a gymnast. I was told I looked like I’d swallowed an elephant, or looked like a pig.” After a video of …
Comprehension Exercise – 13. Study the article and answer the questions that follow. This is the part of an article that appeared in BusinessLine dated 22.5.2019 With eight million tonnes of plastic dumped annually into the sea, the world is faced with the grim prospect …
Comprehension Exercise – 12. Study the article and answer the questions that follow. Article sourced from BBC Minutes before Mena Mangal, a prominent Afghan journalist and parliamentary adviser, was shot dead by two men in Kabul, she had left her parent’s home after reminding them …
Comprehension Exercise – 11. Study the article and answer the questions that follow. Excerpt sourced from BBC The marriage between a local Christian woman and a Chinese Christian man six months ago in the eastern Pakistani city of Faisalabad had all the signs of a …
Precis (Summary) Writing – 13 Creative Writing – 52 Tips on writing good precis Step by step guide 1. Read the whole passage mindfully to acquaint yourself with the subject matter. 2. Read any one random line and count the number of words in it. …
Comprehension Exercise – 10. Study the article and answer the questions that follow. Excerpt from a BBC article For many Sri Lankans, it was a horrific shock to learn that local Muslims could have been behind the suicide attacks that killed more than 250 people …