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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 …
Vocabulary Exercise – 22 English Skill Building – 22 Knowing the use of these words will help you to top the class in English Calamitous It means something very destructive. 1. The calamitous earthquake that struck the Swat region in of Pakistan in 2015 caused …
Vocabulary Exercise – 21 English Skill Building – 21 Knowing the use of these words will help you to top the class in English Inveterate It means an ingrained habit, or practice that won’t change. 1. Viewers of Indian TV channels get disgusted to see …
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 …
Attitude by Margaret Atwood The University Of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Central message of the article .. In so many ways, even after nearly four decades of this speech by Margaret Atwood, the deficiencies of the curriculum, the uncertainties that new graduates face, and the possible …
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 …
The Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare Explanation – Act II Prince of Morocco prepares to have a go at the puzzle of caskets that he must win to get Portia. He is a rather dark-complexioned man, but is well-built, and handsome. He enters in a …