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Communication Skills-I

Notes Exercises

1. Find a word (s) in the article that means the same as:

(a) Treasured
(b) Declaration
(c) Haziness
(d) Letdown

(e) Extreme anxiety
2. Restructure the article to make it concise and simpler.
3. Give another headline to the article.
4. Analyse the way of writing and comment on the use of an informal tone in the article.

2. India Records Their Best Ever Performance in Asian games

Guangzhou, November 26, 2010
India created history by recording their best-ever performance in Asian Games with 64 medals,
including 14 gold, with star boxer Vijender Singh providing the icing on the cake by bringing the
last yellow metal on the penultimate day on Friday.
The men’s and women’s kabaddi teams expectedly maintained their supremacy by clinching the
gold before the women’s 4x400m quartet and Vijender (75kg) bagged a yellow metal each on the
most productive day for India in the mega-event.
With the addition of 11 more medals on Friday, India’s tally climbed to 14 gold, 17 silver and 33
bronze (total 64), the biggest ever haul in the Asian Games so far, to jump to the sixth place.
India’s best medal haul till date was recorded in the 1982 Games in Delhi when they had won 13

gold, 19 silver and 25 bronze for an overall tally of 57. India had finished 10 in the last edition of
the Games in Doha with a tally of 10-17-26.
India have now completed their engagements in the Games and their final standing will depend

after the completion of the six events -- men’s and women’s marathon, men’s and women’s
doubles Sepak Takraw finals and women’s volleyball final -- on Saturday.

China leads the medal table with 197 gold, 117 silver and 98 bronze (total 412), followed by South
Korea (74-63-91) and Japan (47-73-94) at second and third respectively.
While the kabaddi teams did not sweat much to keep their reputation intact in rather lopsided

finals, Vijender made amends for his bronze-finish in Commonwealth Games with a gold here

while compatriots Santosh Kumar (64) and Manpreet Singh (91kg) settled for a silver each.
The women’s 4x400m relay team also lived up to the expectations as they defended the gold they
won in the 2006 Doha Asian Games.
Long distance runners Preeja Sreedharan, who had earlier won a gold in women’s 10,000m race,
and Kavita Raut had their moment of glory by winning the silver and bronze medals respectively
in the women’s 5000m event.
Rollersports fetched India a couple of unexpected bronze medals with Anup Kumar Yama

bagging one in men’s single free skating before combining with Avani Panchal to finish third in
the pairs skating event. The Indian men’s chess team also contributed a bronze.
Much was expected from the kabaddi teams to provide the boost to the gold haul and they did
not disappoint.

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