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Practise: sustaining pure vowel contrasts such as /I/-/i:/ and /o/-/o:/ in connected speech

Act as my SS1 English tutor and help me practise sustaining pure vowel contrasts such as /

Check my understanding: producing the eight diphthongs as glides in connected speech

Act as my SS1 English tutor and check my understanding of producing the eight diphthongs a

Help me practise: persuading a stated audience in a three-minute spoken case

Act as my SS1 English tutor and help me practise persuading a stated audience in a three-m

Exam drill: delivering an accurate spoken summary of a passage heard once

Act as my SS1 English tutor and drill me exam-style on delivering an accurate spoken summa

Teach me: naming which of the six Test of Orals areas I am weakest in

Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me naming which of the six Test of Orals areas I am

Practise: listening to a spoken argument once and evaluating its reasoning aloud

Act as my SS1 English tutor and help me practise listening to a spoken argument once and e

Practise: distinguishing compound stress from phrase stress

Act as my SS1 English tutor and help me practise distinguishing compound stress from phras

Check my understanding: placing stress correctly on noun-verb pairs such as 'conduct' and 'record'

Act as my SS1 English tutor and check my understanding of placing stress correctly on noun

Help me practise: using punctuation as a guide to phrasing when reading aloud

Act as my SS1 English tutor and help me practise using punctuation as a guide to phrasing

Teach me: identifying rhyming words by sound and rejecting spelling-based false rhymes

Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me identifying rhyming words by sound and rejecting

Practise: consonant contrasts in final voicing

Act as my SS1 English tutor and help me practise consonant contrasts in final voicing, suc

Check my understanding: placing emphatic stress on the word that carries an intended contrast

Act as my SS1 English tutor and check my understanding of placing emphatic stress on the w

Discuss: point, quotation and comment as an essay-writing method

Act as my SS1 English tutor and discuss turning a paragraph away from retelling and toward

Quiz me: revising plot, character and theme across a whole prescribed novel

Act as my SS1 English tutor and quiz me on recalling the movement of a set novel from its

Quiz me: spotting nouns and their types in a passage

Act as my SS1 English tutor and quiz me on reading a short passage and identifying the nou

Practise: naming family and household words as nouns

Act as my SS1 English tutor and help me practise identifying nouns connected to home and f

Teach me: what a noun phrase is

Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me what a noun phrase is, using examples such as 'Th

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

Discuss: main ideas and themes in a short passage

Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a short passage to read, then discuss with me its

Quiz me: mood, tone and audience in a short passage

Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a short passage and quiz me on identifying the moo

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