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Comprehension Exercise – 37 Creative Writing – 95 Read the text below and answer the questions that follow Write-up source: DW Across the world, climate change is sparking conflict as people struggle over dwindling resources. The fight over water could quickly escalate between India and … Read more
Comprehension Exercise – 36 Creative Writing – 94 Read the text below and answer the questions that follow How Britain’s opium trade impoverished Indians [BBC] At the time when the novel, “The Sea of P0ppies’ written by Amitav Ghose is set, poppy was harvested by … Read more
Comprehension Exercise – 35 Creative Writing – 93 Read the following write-up and answer the questions that follow Continuation from Comprehension Exercise – 34 This week, he accused left-wing nongovernmental organizations of deliberately starting the fires, but later admitted that he had no evidence to … Read more
Comprehension Exercise – 34 Creative Writing – 92 Read the following write-up and answer the questions that follow Article source: Washington Post President Trump and leaders of the other Group of Seven nations will meet at the seaside French town of Biarritz this weekend for … Read more
Comprehension Exercise – 33 Creative Writing – 91 Comprehension Exercises for school students (CBSE, ICSE, BSE) Article sourced from Washington Post If Britain finally leaves the European Union in a couple of months, it may get a commemorative coin to remember it by. Sajid Javid, … Read more
Comprehension Exercise – 32 Creative Writing – 90 Comprehension Exercises for school students (CBSE, ICSE, BSE) Text sourced from Washington Post The protesters of Hong Kong and Moscow aren’t backing down. In two world cities, a defiant brand of people power is standing tall against … Read more
Comprehension Exercise – 31 Creative Writing – 89 Comprehension Exercises for school students (CBSE, ICSE, BSE) Article – 1 : sourced from BBC Chinese authorities have declared a red alert as a powerful typhoon heads towards the eastern coast. Typhoon Lekima is currently battering Taiwan … Read more
Editorial Analysis – 6 Creative Writing – 88 How does Taliban get money to fight its wars? Taliban emerged as a fighting force in Afghanistan in 1994, when the country seemed to have been plunged in an interminable fratricidal conflict. Since then, it has fought … Read more
Precis (Summary) Writing – 22 Creative Writing – 87 Read the following write-up of 402 words and write its precis in 144 words Text sourced from the blog of Amitav Ghosh To read The Babarnama is constantly to ask oneself what could possibly have prompted … Read more
Precis (Summary) Writing – 21 Creative Writing – 86 Learn the ideal steps to write good precis and write them yourself Precis writing steps First step Read the passage very carefully, and capture its central thought. Second step Count the number of words. For this, … Read more