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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 business. However, India has a … Read more
Precis / summary writing .. (With answer) Passage … [Taken from ‘The Adivasi will not dance.’] 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
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