Creative Writing

Creative Writing – 132 Comprehension Exercise Comprehension and the art of articulation It would take a long time, Asfaw Yemiru reckoned, to walk the 75 miles from his village in Bulga to Addis Ababa. The family had last gone by donkey, so that he and … Read more

Creative Writing – 131 Comprehension Exercise Comprehension questions with answers Question Passages taken from NYT “Something wrong” was a euphemism for working with the Americans. Billions of dollars in foreign-aid money were pouring into Afghanistan to promote “democracy-building” and other U.S. projects. Young women in … Read more

Creative Writing – 130 Comprehension Exercise Answer the questions at the end of the write-up The following passages were sourced from ‘The Economist’. Before his best race, at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff in 1958, Milkha Singh was under far too much … Read more

Creative Writing – 129 Comprehension Exercise Comprehension exercise of moderate difficulty Question Passages On the day of the BBC’s open auditions, she took a bus across town. Eight women and girls sat waiting to try out, all of them poised and evidently experienced. Faqeer read … Read more

Creative Writing – 127 Comprehension Exercise Comprehension exercise of moderate difficulty Question Passage taken from NYT In July, 2001, Zarmina Faqeer, a sixteen-year-old Afghan refugee living in the Pakistani border town of Peshawar, learned that the BBC radio soap opera “New House, New Life” was … Read more

Creative Writing – 126 Comprehension Exercise Study the passages carefully and answer the questions Question Passages taken from The Washington Post Flowing from the capital, the highway begins without promise, a long, curving scar stretching across the navel of Afghanistan. Potholes. Ruts. A bridge destroyed … Read more

Creative Writing – 125 Comprehension Exercise Read the BBC article and answer the questions that follow What’s behind suicides by thousands of Indian housewives? Why do thousands of Indian housewives kill themselves every year? According to the recently released data by the government’s National Crime … Read more

Creative Writing – 124 Comprehension Exercise Read the following passages from the BBC and answer the questions underneath Passage 1 India’s capital Delhi recorded its worst November air in at least six years, according to official data. The city recorded 11 days of “severe” pollution, … Read more