by whom the article is written
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A recent survey showed that there are still many communities in India which do not welcome the birth of a girl child. Can a country which does not give equal rights to its citizens ever dream of becoming great? Complete the following article by using the hints given. You are Simran/Yusuf, a citizen of Hyderabad.
The girl child often (a) ………………………………….. . Her perceived low status is reflected in the denial of fundamental needs and rights and in such harmful attitudes and practices as (b) ………………………………….. . The girl child is not only deprived of access to basic facilities (c) ………………………………….. . The sex ratio has always been a matter of concern but this concern sounded a red alert when even in the twenty-first century, in many states, there was an obvious preference for the male child. (d) ………………………………….. if handled with a strong socio-political will. It must be realised that there would be no girls for marriages, no inheritors, no one to continue the family name’ and no one to perform the last rites if (e) ………………………………….. . The fight is not against men (f) ………………………………….. which govern attitudes and values. It is these shackles that have to be broken. (g) ………………………………….. . These rights need to be recognised in the case of women. Women also have to learn not to plead for rights, (h) …………………………………… |
Answer: (a) faces discrimination from the earliest stages of life, through childhood and into adulthood (b) a preference for sons, early marriage, domestic abuse, sexual exploitation, discrimination, less food, and less access to education (c) but also of the basic right to be born (d) However, these problems are not insurmountable (e) the practice of killing girl child continues (f) but against the social system, traditions, social norms, and values, customs and rituals (g) Constitution confers equal rights on all citizens (h) but to assert themselves and take their due
Article writing topics practice example for class 11 cbse.
1. You have often come across headlines such as:
Man murders grandfather for property | Terrorists gun down 10 of a family |
Young man stabbed by eve-teaser | Gang kidnap boy for ransom |
Students disqualified for cheating | Rioters bum buses |
The growing tendency towards violence among young people is especially a cause for concern. Write an article in about 150 words on âTeen Aggression and the Media”. You are Abhijit/Anita Sarkar.
2. Animals in the wild are caught, tamed, caged, trained, and conditioned to perform in set patterns and ultimately left to die. Sirish/Sumita of the âEnvironment Clubâ of Nav Chetna School took down these notes.
As Sirish/Sumita, write an article on âTheir Life is not a Circusâ.
3. The floods in Chennai not only highlighted the inefficiency and indifference of the local administration but also brought out the indomitable spirit of the common man. It was a grand story of how people came to the rescue of people. Write an article in 150 â 200 words on how common man can realise his own powers and help rebuild a âNew and Clean India’ of which we can all be proud. Sign yourself as Victor/Helen.
4. You are Maneka/Manik. You strongly feel that the Indian Government is not taking steps to promote tourism in India which could turn out to be one of the major revenue earning industries. Write an article in 150 â 200 words for a magazine giving your ideas on the steps the Indian Government could take to promote tourism aggressively.
6. Jeena/Jatin came across the following news item:
In India, according to the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR), tobacco kills 800,000 people every year. Yet the number of smokers is on the rise. The reasons for this are not difficult to find â the adverse health effects of tobacco consumption take a long time to surface, so even though smokers know about the hazards, there are no immediate visible factors forcing them to give up smoking. |
As Jeena/Jatin, write an article for the local magazine in about 150 words on the hazards of smoking.
7. You are Diwakar/Dina. You have heard your teacher talk to your class about the importance of inculcating the reading habit. You have taken down some notes. With the help of the given information and your own ideas, write an article on the topic: âBooks are Our Friends Forever” in 150 words.
8. You are Manoj/Meena. Write an article in 150 â 200 words on the following: Value education should be made a part of the curriculum in schools. Highlight the steps taken by your school in this direction.
9. You are Dinesh Sinha of 87, Curzon Road, Delhi. You have observed that the subways in Delhi are seldom used by pedestrians. You have decided to write an article for a national magazine, highlighting the dire need of creating awareness about this problem. Based on the points given below, write the article in not more than 150 words.
10. Given below is an advertisement for students aspiring to study in the USA.
Financing your education Beyond the basics Our counselors help you choose the right program for your goals. |
Write an article in 150 words on the increasing trend among the working population today to go abroad for higher studies. Sign yourself as Namita/Subodh Pandey. (150 words)
11. The clearing of tropical forests across the Earth has been occurring on a largeâscale basis for many centuries. This process, known as deforestation, involves the cutting down, burning, and damaging of forests. The loss of tropical rainforest is more profound than merely the destruction of beautiful areas. If the current rate of deforestation continues, the world’s rainforests will vanish within 100 years â causing unknown effects on global climate and eliminating the majority of plant and animal species on the planet. You are Maneka/Manik. You strongly feel that the Indian Government is not taking adequate steps to check deforestation in India. Write an article for a national daily in 150 â 200 words giving your ideas on the steps the Indian government could take to aggressively control deforestation.
12. Kunal/Karishma read the following news in a newspaper. He/she decided to write an article about it for the newspaper. Using ideas from the news clip, together with your ideas, write the article on her behalf in 150 words.
Ahmedabad, 5 September: Premchand Patel, a resident of Vastrapur, was fatally injured when a stray bull on the road knocked him down. Premchand, a 16 â year â old, was on his way to school when the incident took place. This is the third incident in this week of its kind. |
13. At least one â third of India’s billion inhabitants regularly watch Indian soap operas, which have displaced popular cinema as the prime entertainment genre. These popular shows depict the ideal woman only as a long-suffering, exploited person, an epitome of virtue and self â righteousness. The other face of women is that of unalloyed evil. They wreck homes, plot murders without an ounce of guilt, torture sisters â in â law, so the audience is given no choice but to hate them. The viewer is hoodwinked. As a concerned viewer, write an article for a national daily on the portrayal of women in popular TV soap operas.
14. Economists feel that India has only one problem â a burgeoning population. At more than one billion and growing, India will soon outgrow China. Most of the other troubles in our country have emerged mainly because of this problem. Write an article for the newspaper on: âNeed for population control.â
15. The following editorial appeared in a national daily:
With parents hankering after English medium education for their children, privately owned public schools are springing up in big cities, small towns and even villages. Most of these teaching shops’ resort to crass commercialism, fleecing poor parents, desperate to provide English medium education to their children. |
You are Sucheta/Shikhar Thareja of Class XI of Dehra Public School. Express your views on the topic in an article for a newspaper.
16. The Indian politicians routinely hire ‘muscle power to improve their electoral prospects, and criminals themselves successfully run for public office. Indeed, many observers bemoan the fact that corruption and the background of the candidates have become non â issues to voters. You are Neeta/Nishit Roy. Write an article for The Times of India on the increasing corruption and criminalisation of politics in India.
17. Each day the newspaper carries various advertisements on losing weight in order to become healthy and look good. Various unrecognized health clubs have mushroomed all over the city to cater to this fad. Exorbitant sums are charged with a promise to help weight loss. Write an article for a newspaper expressing your views on the topic. You are Tarini/Tanmay Sharma.
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18. Madhuri/Mayank had an argument with her/his friend on the topic of women taking up careers. After hearing the negative views of her/his friend, Madhuri/Mayank decide to write an article on the topic âWomen and Career’. As Madhuri/Mayank, write the article for The Daily Times.
19. Begging is the outcome of abject poverty and not choice. An Action Aid International study on this issue in India shows that 99 percent of men and 97 percent of women get into begging due to poverty.
Attempts by police officials to drive away from the destitute and impose fines are clearly not a solution as it does not address the overall problem. Beggars must be viewed as full citizens with all the entitlements and rights of a citizen.
Write an article for a national daily expressing your views on anti-begging laws and efforts to check the problem.
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The 11+ exam is a school entrance exam taken in the academic year that a child in the UK turns eleven.
These exams are highly competitive, with multiple students battling for each school place awarded.
The 11 plus exam isnât âone thingâ, it varies in its structure and composition across the country. A creative writing task is included in nearly all of the 11 plus exams, and parents are often confused about whatâs being tested.
Donât be fooled into thinking that the plot of your childâs writing task is important. It is not.
The real aim of the 11+ creative writing task is to showcase your childâs writing skills and techniques.
And thatâs why preparation is so important.
This guide begins by answering all the FAQs that parents have about the 11+ creative writing task.
At the end of the article I give my best tips & strategies for preparing your child for the 11+ creative writing task , along with 50 fiction and non-fiction creative writing prompts from past papers you can use to help your child prepare. You’ll also want to check out my 11+ reading list , because great readers turn into great writers.
Not every 11+ exam includes a short story component, but many do. Usually 3 to 5 different prompts are given for the child to choose between and they are not always âcreativeâ (fiction) pieces. One or more non-fiction options might be given for children who prefer writing non-fiction to fiction.
Timings and marking vary from test to test. For example, the Kent 11+ Test gives students 10 minutes for planning followed by 30 minutes for writing. The Medway 11+ Test gives 60 minutes for writing with âspace allowedâ on the answer booklet for planning.
Tasks vary too. In the Kent Test a handful of stimuli are given, whereas 11+ students in Essex are asked to produce two individually set paragraphs. The Consortium of Selective Schools in Essex (CCSE) includes 2 creative writing paragraphs inside a 60-minute English exam.
Throughout the UK each 11+ exam has a different set of timings and papers based around the same themes. Before launching into any exam preparation it is essential to know the content and timing of your childâs particular writing task.
However varied and different these writing tasks might seem, there is one key element that binds them.
The mark scheme.
Although we can lean on previous examples to assess how likely a short story or a non-fiction tasks will be set, it would be naĂŻve to rely completely on the content of past papers. Contemporary 11+ exams are designed to be âtutor-proofâ – meaning that the exam boards like to be unpredictable.
In my online writing club for kids , we teach a different task each week (following a spiral learning structure based on 10 set tasks). One task per week is perfected as the student moves through the programme of content, and one-to-one expert feedback ensures progression. This equips our writing club members to âwrite effectively for a range of purposesâ as stated in the English schoolsâ teacher assessment framework.
This approach ensures that students approaching a highly competitive entrance exam will be confident of the mark scheme (and able to meet its demands) for any task set.
This varies. In the Kent Test there are usually 5 options given. The purpose is to gather a writing sample from each child in case of a headteacher appeal. A range of options should allow every child to showcase what they can do.
In Essex, two prescriptive paragraphs are set as part of an hour-long English paper that includes comprehension and vocabulary work. In Essex, there is no option to choose the subject matter.
The Medway Test just offers a single prompt for a whole hour of writing. Sometimes it is a creative piece. Recently it was a marketing leaflet.
The framework for teaching writing in English schools demands that in order to âexceed expectationsâ or better, achieve âgreater depthâ, students need to be confident writing for a multitude of different purposes.
In Essex (east of the UK) the two prescriptive writing tasks are found inside the English exam paper. They are integral to the exam and are assessed as part of this.
In Medway (east Kent in the South East) the writing task is marked and given a raw score. This is then adjusted for age and double counted. Thus, the paper is crucial to a pass.
In the west of the county of Kent there is a different system. The Kent Test has a writing task that is only marked in appeal cases. If a child dips below the passmark their school is allowed to put together a âheadteacherâs appealâ. At this point – before the score is communicated to the parent (and probably under cover of darkness) the writing sample is pulled out of a drawer and assessed.
Iâve been running 11+ tutor clubs for years. Usually about 1% of my students passed at headteacherâs appeal.
Since starting the writing club, however, the number of students passing at appeal has gone up considerably. In recent years itâs been more like 5% of students passing on the strength of their writing sample.
In England, the government has set out a framework for marking creative writing. There are specific âpupil canâ statements to assess whether a student is âworking towards the expected standard,â âworking at the expected standardâ or âworking at greater depthâ.
Members of the headteacher panel assessing the writing task are given a considerable number of samples to assess at one time. These expert teachers have a clear understanding of the framework for marking, but will not be considering or discussing every detail of the writing sample as you might expect.
Schools are provided with a report after the samples have been assessed. This is very brief indeed. Often it will simply say âlack of precise vocabularyâ or âconfused paragraphing.â
So there is no mark scheme as such. They wonât be totting up your childâs score to see if they have reached a given target. They are on the panel because of their experience, and they have a short time to make an instant judgement.
Handwriting is assessed in primary schools. Thus it is an element of the assessment framework the panel uses as a basis for their decision.
If the exam is very soon, then donât worry if your child is not producing immaculate, cursive handwriting. The focus should simply be on making it well-formed and legible. Every element of the assessment framework does not need to be met and legible writing will allow the panel to read the content with ease.
Improve presentation quickly by offering a smooth rollerball pen instead of a pencil. Focus on fixing individual letters and praising your child for any hint of effort. The two samples below are from the same boy a few months apart. Small changes have transformed the look and feel:
How long should the short story be.
First, it is not a short story as suchâit is a writing sample. Your child needs to showcase their skills but there are no extra marks for finishing (or marks deducted for a half-finished piece).
For a half hour task, you should prepare your child to produce up to 4 paragraphs of beautifully crafted work. Correct spelling and proper English grammar is just the beginning. Each paragraph should have a different purpose to showcase the breadth and depth of their ability. A longer – 60 minute – task might have 5 paragraphs but rushing is to be discouraged. Considered and interesting paragraphs are so valuable, a shorter piece would be scored more highly than a rushed and dull longer piece.
I speak from experience. A while ago now I was a marker for Key Stage 2 English SATs Papers (taken in Year 6 at 11 years old). Hundreds of scripts were deposited on my doorstep each morning by DHL. There was so much work for me to get through that I came to dread long, rambling creative pieces. Some children can write pages and pages of repetitive nothingness. Ever since then, I have looked for crafted quality and am wary of children judging their own success by the number of lines competed.
Take a look at the piece of writing below. Itâs an excellent example of a well-crafted piece.
Each paragraph is short, but the writer is skilful.
He used rich and precisely chosen vocabulary, heâs broken the text into natural paragraphs, and in the second paragraph he is beginning to vary his sentence openings. There is a sense of control to the sentences â the sentence structure varies with shorter and longer examples to manage tension. It is exciting to read, with a clear awareness of his audience. Punctuation is accurate and appropriate.
How important is it to revise for a creative writing task.
It is important.
Every student should go into their 11+ writing task with a clear paragraph plan secured. As each paragraph has a separate purpose â to showcase a specific skill â the plan should reflect this. Built into the plan is a means of flexing it, to alter the order of the paragraphs if the task demands it. Thereâs no point having a Beginning â Middle â End approach, as thereâs nothing useful there to guide the student to the mark scheme.
Beyond this, my own students have created 3 â 5 stories that fit the same tight plan. However, the setting, mood and action are all completely different. This way a bank of rich vocabulary has already been explored and a technique or two of their own that fits the piece beautifully. These can be drawn upon on the day to boost confidence and give a greater sense of depth and consideration to their timed sample.
Preparation, rather than revision in its classic form, is the best approach. Over time, even weeks or months before the exam itself, contrasting stories are written, improved upon, typed up and then tweaked further as better ideas come to mind. Each of these meets the demands of the mark scheme (paragraphing, varied sentence openings, rich vocabulary choices, considered imagery, punctuation to enhance meaning, development of mood etc).
To ensure your child can write confidently at and above the level expected of them, drop them into my weekly weekly online writing club for the 11+ age group . The club marking will transform their writing, and quickly.
Writing is usually marked separately from any comprehension or grammar exercises in your childâs particular 11+ exam. Each exam board (by area/school) adapts the arrangement to suit their needs. Some have a separate writing test, others build it in as an element of their English paper (usually alongside a comprehension, punctuation and spelling exercise).
Although there is no creative writing task in the ISEB Common Pre-test, those who are not offered an immediate place at their chosen English public school are often invited back to complete a writing task at a later date. Our ISEB Common Pre-test students join the writing club in the months before the exam, first to tidy up the detail and second to extend the content.
Most exam boards pride themselves on their inclusivity. They will expect you to have a formal report from a qualified professional at the point of registration for the test. This needs to be in place and the recommendations will be considered by a panel. If your child needs extra arrangements on the day they may be offered (it isnât always the case). More importantly, if they drop below a pass on one or more papers you will have a strong case for appeal.
Children with a specific learning difficulty often struggle with low confidence in their work and low self-esteem. The preparations set out above, and a kids writing club membership will allow them to go into the exam feeling positive and empowered. If they donât achieve a pass at first, the writing sample will add weight to their appeal.
At Griffin Teaching we have an online writing club for students preparing for the 11 plus creative writing task . Weâve seen first-hand what a difference just one or two months of weekly practice can make.
That said, we know that a lot of people reading this page are up against a hard deadline with an 11+ exam date fast approaching.
If thatâs you (or your child), what you need is a paragraph plan.
Hereâs one tried-and-true paragraph plan that we teach in our clubs. Use this as you work your way through some of the example prompts below.
Paragraph 1âdescription.
Imagine standing in the location and describe what is above the main character, what is below their feet, what is to their left and right, and what is in the distance. Try to integrate frontend adverbials into this paragraph (frontend adverbials are words or phrases used at the beginning of a sentence to describe what followsâe.g. When the fog lifted, he saw⊠)
Create two characters who have different roles (e.g. site manager and student, dog walker and lost man) and write a short dialogue between them. Use what we call the âsandwich layout,â where the first person says something and you describe what they are doing while they are saying it. Add in further descriptions (perhaps of the personâs clothing or expression) before starting a new line where the second character gives a simple answer and you provide details about what the second character is doing as they speak.
Write three to four sentences that change the mood of the writing sample from light to gloomy or foreboding. You could write about a change in the weather or a change in the lighting of the scene. Another approach is to mention how a character reacts to the change in mood, for example by pulling their coat collar up to their ears.
A classic approach is to have your character die unexpectedly in the final sentence. Or maybe the ceiling falls?
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