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Creative Writing – 139 Essay Essay for high school students Tourism – Boon or Bane for India Every year, millions of people travel to other countries for vacations, recreation and pleasure spending billions of dollars. India, unfortunately, gets a miniscule fraction of this burgeoning global … Read more
Creative Writing – 138 Precis Writing Text taken from ‘The Adivasi will not dance’ Question Passages Our aunt Panmuni-jhi began to eat regularly in restaurants after moving to Vadodara in 2000. In Bhubaneshwar where she had lived before Vadodara with her husband Biram and sons … Read more
Creative Writing – 137 Precis Writing Precis concised to one third word count Question Passages 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 … Read more
Creative Writing – 136 Comprehension Exercise Comprehension exercise for senior students Question Passage Source – The 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 … Read more
Creative Writing – 135 Comprehension Exercise Comprehension questions for senior school Question Passage 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. … Read more
Creative Writing – 134 Comprehension Exercise Comprehension exercise for senior school Question Passage 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 … Read more
English Skill Building – 104 Rewriting Sentences Sentence breaking exercise with answer [Source – NYT] Question Sentences a. 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 … Read more
Creative Writing – 133 Comprehension Exercise Comprehension exercise for senior students Question Passage 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 … Read more
English Skill Building – 103 Error Correction 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. … Read more
English Skill Building – 102 Vocabulary 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 … Read more