1,204 prompts matching "Expressions that pass in speech but not in an examination"
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Essay practice: writing a comparative answer across two prescribed texts
Act as my SS1 English tutor and set me timed essay practice on structuring one argument th
Practise: using a, an and some with countable and uncountable nouns
Act as my SS1 English tutor and help me practise choosing correctly between 'a', 'an' and
Teach me: how linkers and connectives join ideas
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the role of linkers or connectives such as 'howev
Practise: sorting verbs into regular and irregular groups
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a list of verbs drawn from a story about a birthda
Teach me: demonstrative pronouns this, that, these and those
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the demonstrative pronouns 'this', 'that', 'these
Practise: scanning, skimming and intensive reading on the same text
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Discuss: interpreting a short story or passage
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Teach me: reading prose for characters, setting and plot
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Teach me: working out word meaning from context
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how to work out the meaning of an unfamiliar word
Practise: guessing word meaning from context in a short text
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Teach me: identifying a writer's mood, tone and purpose
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Teach me: skimming a text for gist and finding topic sentences
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Check my understanding: what happens at the start, middle and end of a text
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Teach me: paragraphing, topic sentences and punctuation together
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Writing task: summarising a short passage in a few sentences
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Teach me: key vocabulary from a reading passage
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Practise: using sequencing expressions in a short piece
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Teach me: relative pronouns who, whom, whose, which and that
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the relative pronouns 'who', 'whom', 'whose', 'wh
Practise: spelling difficult words from a prose passage
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a list of difficult words from a prose passage and
Help me practise: presenting a short speech to the class
Act as my SS1 English tutor and help me practise presenting a short speech I have prepared