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Precis /Summary writing (Concised to one third word count) During a busy A-shift—the shift from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.—at the Sadar Hospital, when I was simultaneously in charge of four departments: the outpatient, the emergency, the male ward, and the malnutrition treatment centre, I … Read more
Comprehension exercise for senior students ..(with answers) Source: Washington Post As Sikka Khan tells it, he was struck by tragedy, but also fortune, in 1947. He was a 6-month-old orphan, the son of Muslim laborers caught in the chaos of India’s partition. Sadiq, his 10-year … Read more
COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS FOR SENIOR SCHOOL.. (with answers) (Source: TIME) The results of fossil-fuel-based, centralized, power-plant strategies of the past 50 years speak for themselves: high levels of pollution and slow rollouts due to high construction and fuel costs. Instead, we need to focus on minigrid-based … Read more
Comprehension exercise for senior school (with answers) [Sourced from TIME] You bring your feverish baby to the hospital in the middle of the night. The nurse asks you to go home to get a flashlight. When the flashlight batteries give out, she resorts to a … Read more
Sentence breaking exercise with answer … (Source: NYT) Original sentence 1. Plans to expand lithium mining in Chile, the world’s second largest producer, hit political roadblocks this week, raising new questions about supplies of a metal that is in high demand as the world transitions … Read more
Comprehension exercise with answers .. (Source : BBC) In a pocket of north Indian wilderness, the rhino is helping to bring peace and pride back to a community healing from ethnic conflict. The call came at midnight on 1 September 2008. One of the first … Read more
Error correction for school students… Correct the grammar mistakes in the following passage … The ship was loaded with a big consignment of tea for export to Russia. The ship had been docked in Kolkata Port for two days. The laborers had worked round the … Read more
Words / phrases with multiple uses.. Disuse … a. The singer was incarcerated for a long ten years because she had sung a song critical of the dictator in power. After her release she was horrified to find that she could no longer sing. Along … Read more
1. Comprehend … In the initial stages, Ranu couldn’t comprehend why so much importance is given to Karl Marx by people around the world. (Convert to Passive.) Later, on seeing some videos on Marx, she could comprehend his complex ideas. 2. Contemplate .. India is … Read more
Break the following sentences to smaller ones…… (Sourced from NYT) 1. Plans to expand lithium mining in Chile, the world’s second largest producer, hit political roadblocks this week, raising new questions about supplies of a metal that is in high demand as the world transitions … Read more