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Prose is spoken or written language that follows regular speech patterns. It is made up of sentences and paragraphs, as opposed to poetry which is made up of lines and stanzas. The term “prose” is often used to describe writings such as novels, short stories, and narratives.
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- National Service Scheme. The Indian youth is accused of being impatient, undisciplined, disrespectful to the elders, and irresponsible towards society and authority.
- Women’s Rights. Even 60 years after independence the woman of India are still exploited and abused inspite of constitutional guarantees and new laws.
- Sachin Tendulkar. Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar is India’s and probably world’s most admired and celebrated cricketer. He has an enabled fan following as large as that of rock stars or great movie stars.
In these reading comprehension worksheets, students are asked questions about the meaning, significance, intention, structure, inference, and vocabulary used in each passage. Each passage reads like an encyclopedic or technical journal article.
This chapter introduces comprehension (prose and poetry) to students of class 8. Students learn about the characteristics and needs of comprehension (prose and poetry).
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- Two of a kind
- January the fifth
- Cambridge IGCSE First Language English
- Answers to Worksheet for Text 1B: January the fifth
- night-light had guttered into a pool of water
- Answers – Unit 1
- Topic outline
- Homework task
- Framed
- Answers – Unit 2
Write a continuation and ending to the story to explain what happens at the party.
Ask students to plan, draft and write their own story with twins as the main characters, to include dialogue and descriptive and figurative language to create setting and atmosphere.
Everyone is fascinated by identical twins: they look the same – even advanced digital imaging systems sometimes fail to tell them apart – and yet they have diferent personalities and abilities. Literature and detective stories depend upon them for providing a plot twist or a mystery. In reality, too, there have been numerous cases of one twin imper...
Peter Morton woke with a start to face the first light. Rain tapped against the glass. It was January the fifth. He looked across a table on which a night-light had guttered into a pool of water, at the other bed. Francis Morton was still asleep, and Peter lay down again with his eyes on his brother. It amused him to imagine it was himself whom he ...
superciliously to a masculine stride. Their sex humiliated him, as they watched him fumble with his egg, from under lowered scornful lids. And last year ... he turned his face away from Peter, his cheeks scarlet. ‘What’s the matter?’ Peter asked. ‘Oh, nothing. I don’t think I’m well. I’ve got a cold. I oughtn’t to go to the party.’ Peter was puzzle...
palled – became uninteresting; superciliously – disdainfully; fumble – behave clumsily; malingering – feigning illness, pretending to be ill; breach – gap, break, rupture New and indented line for change of speaker; inverted commas around words spoken; final punctuation within the closing inverted commas; small letter to follow unless new sentence ...
This is one of the images of light being drowned; ‘guttered’ is an unpleasant-sounding word with connotations of being brought low. Although it is dawn, and it is party day, the imagery is dark and forebodes extinction.
3 Text 1A key points: have close physical similarities show diferent behaviour traits have same genetic code have diferent fingerprints enjoy each other’s company often communicate in their own language believed by some to be telepathic sometimes claim to share emotions and physical sensations tend to like the same things have been known to make th...
■ Main skills: comprehension; developing a response to reading ■ Secondary skills: identifying writers’ efects; complex sentences; genre transformation; interviewing ■ Outcome: news report; *descriptive writing ■ Materials: short story; news report structure handout ■ Text: Text 2: Framed
Write the news report of the fire and collapse of the wall. Give the report a headline and a sub-heading within the report.
The writer and his fire-fighting colleagues are putting out a fire in a warehouse in London, caused by an air-raid bomb, when there is an accident. I remember it was our third job that night, and it was 3 a.m. And there we were – Len, Lofty, Verno and myself, playing a fifty-foot jet up the face of a tall city warehouse and thinking nothing at all...
2a Power of the water: fifty-foot jet – height of water and the pressure implied by jet pole of water – height of water and its rigidity careless gallons – amount of water, as if it was inexhaustible water throbbed – describes pulsing efect of the bursts of water and the action of the pump ceaseless stream spewed – emphasises unending quantity and ...
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Comprehension: Prose. Read the passage thoroughly. Identify the main idea and the supporting details of the passage. Understand the first (introduction) and the last (conclusion) paragraph of the passage. Identify the theme of each paragraph. Identify the tone used in the passage. Understand the author’s purpose and viewpoint.
Prose Comprehension - Comprehension for English Olympiads. In this video, we will discuss comprehension. We will be learning how to answer English olympiad's comprehension based...
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