Let’s write good English
Comprehension exercise for faster learning of English- No 1… Lord Byron’s grandfather was having a bad day. Scurvy had taken down his crew on the HMS Dolphin, forcing them into their hammocks where they swayed in the sticky heat of the tropics as their ship … Read more
La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad by John Keats About John Keats … John Keats (1795-1821) died young leaving behind a blazing trail of rich romantic poetry. Although his poems didn’t receive the acclaim and appreciation during his short life span of just 25 … Read more
Read the following write-up ad answer the questions that follow. …. Write-up Across the world, climate change is sparking conflict as people struggle over dwindling resources. The fight over water could quickly escalate between India and Pakistan — and both have nuclear arms. Yemen, Somalia … Read more
Read the text below and answer the questions that follow. How Britain’s opium trade impoverished Indians At the time when the novel, “The Sea of P0ppies’ written by Amitav Ghose is set, poppy was harvested by some 1.3 million peasant households in northern India. The … Read more
Current Affairs and good English are key to success… Read the following write-up and answer the question appearing between the paragraphs. This week, he accused left-wing nongovernmental organizations of deliberately starting the fires, but later admitted that he had no evidence to back up the claim. “Everything … Read more
Current Affairs and good English are key to success… Read the following write-up and answer the question appearing between the paragraphs. President Trump and leaders of the other Group of Seven nations will meet at the seaside French town of Biarritz this weekend for a … Read more
Comprehension 25… Read he passage and write the answers. Justice is 7 years old. She’s besotted with Frozen’s Princess Elsa and knows all the words to the film’s hit song “Let It Go.” Every morning, she collects the frangipani flowers that have fallen into her guardian’s … Read more
Contrast between Goa and Hampi through a tourist’s eyes … A visit to Hampi Ancient Vijayanagara, a crumbling 16th-century metropolis, is a stark contrast to the decadence of Goa’s beach life. Once the hippie paradise of the sixties, Goa’s beautiful beaches are now overrun with … Read more
Comprehension exercise 23 Read the article below about the hurdles in the path of girls’ education. The article has been taken from TIME. It is written by Nilanjana Bhowmick. Answer the questions that appear after each paragraph. ————————————.———————– Why India’s young girls’ enrolment in schools … Read more
On the Decay of the Art of Lying by Mark Twain About the author .. In our childhoods, almost all of us read ‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ with great delight. In fact, for most of us reading these books … Read more