1,136 prompts matching "Identifying the writer's purpose by probing the text with questions"
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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
Teach me: skimming a text for gist and finding topic sentences
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how to skim a text quickly for its general meanin
Teach me: why and how to summarise a text
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me why summarising is a useful skill, and show me th
Writing task: a short story with a clear problem and setting
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a writing task to write a short story with a clear
Teach me: the format and tone of a formal letter
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the format of a formal letter — address and date,
Practise: choosing the correct relative pronoun
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a set of sentences with gaps and help me practise
Practise: a full spelling test with self-correction
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a short spelling test using words I have been stru
Teach me: the four types of phrases
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the four types of phrases — noun, adverbial, adje
Quiz me: choosing the correct collocation over a wrong pairing
Act as my SS1 English tutor and quiz me by giving me pairs of options like 'a burning desi
Discuss: exploring themes in a recommended book
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a short summary of a recommended book, then discus
Practise: scanning a text for a name or a date
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Give me five practice questions on scanning a text for a name
Practise: comparing a news headline with its full report
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a headline and the full news report that goes with
Discuss: the setting and mood of a play script I read
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a short play extract and discuss with me its setti
Teach me: key vocabulary from a Shakespearean text
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me some key words from a Shakespearean text like Rome
Teach me: synonyms and why they matter for writing
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me what synonyms are, why they are useful, and help
Teach me: antonyms and how to use them
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me what antonyms are, help me identify antonyms for
Teach me: the rising tune and where it is used
You are my SS1 English tutor. Teach me the rising tune and where it is used, in clear step
Practise: writing sentences and marking the emphatic stress
Act as my SS1 English tutor and help me practise writing a few sentences with emphatic str
Practise: identifying dependent and independent clauses in a passage
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a short passage and help me practise identifying w
Teach me: how compound sentences are formed with conjunctions
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how compound sentences are formed by joining simp