1,204 prompts matching "Reduce a 500-word passage to an exact word limit"
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Practise: distinguishing commonly confused word pairs in formal writing
Act as my SS1 English tutor and help me practise distinguishing commonly confused word pai
Check my understanding: stating the grammatical name and function of an underlined expression
Act as my SS1 English tutor and check my understanding of stating the grammatical name and
Check my understanding: shifting register and formality through grammar, not just vocabulary
Act as my SS1 English tutor and check my understanding of shifting register and formality
Check my understanding: British versus American spellings and usages
Act as my SS1 English tutor and check my understanding of British versus American spelling
Teach me: drawing supported inferences and telling inference apart from guessing
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Practise: identifying a writer's purpose and intended audience
Act as my SS1 English tutor and help me practise identifying a writer's purpose and intend
Teach me: skimming for gist and scanning for detail against the clock
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me skimming for gist and scanning for detail against
Check my understanding: reading non-fiction and media texts critically
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Check my understanding: making economical, structured notes that will still make sense a week later
Act as my SS1 English tutor and check my understanding of making economical, structured no
Teach me: revising registers, idioms and sense relations
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me revising registers, idioms and sense relations. E
Teach me: describing how a text is organised and why the writer chose that order
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Practise: answering comprehension questions on a literary extract
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Exam-style practice: distinguishing a word's denotation from its connotation in context
Act as my SS1 English tutor and set me exam-style practice on distinguishing a word's deno
Teach me: detecting bias in a text through selection, order, attribution and omission
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me detecting bias in a text through selection, order
Practise: evaluating the reliability of a source by authorship, evidence and interest
Act as my SS1 English tutor and help me practise evaluating the reliability of a source by
Practise: British and American spelling and usage differences
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Check my understanding: checking my own understanding of vocabulary in context under exam time
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Teach me: summarising a paragraph in my own words without lifting phrasing
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Practise: writing a description that selects detail for one dominant impression
Act as my SS1 English tutor and help me practise writing a description that selects detail
Practise: writing a semi-formal letter in the register between formal and informal
Act as my SS1 English tutor and help me practise writing a semi-formal letter in the regis