1,183 prompts matching "Scanning a text for the one sentence that answers a question"
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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
Help me practise: sentences with j, z, zh, th sounds
Act as my SS1 English tutor and help me practise saying sentences that mix the sounds [j]
Teach me: listening for main points and useful expressions
Act as my SS1 English tutor and play or describe a short audio talk for me, then teach me
Teach me: words with the k-w consonant cluster
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me words that contain a consonant sound followed by
Teach me: capital letters for proper nouns
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the rule for using capital letters with proper no
Teach me: possessive pronouns and how they work
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the possessive pronouns 'his', 'mine', 'hers', 't
Quiz me: identifying topic sentences in paragraphs
Act as my SS1 English tutor and quiz me on picking out the topic sentence in each paragrap
Teach me: the three reading sub-skills
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the three reading sub-skills — scanning, skimming
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
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a short passage with a few difficult words underli
Teach me: identifying a writer's mood, tone and purpose
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how to tell apart a writer's mood, tone and purpo
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
Writing task: an informal letter to a friend
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a writing task to write an informal letter to a fr
Writing task: a formal letter to a school authority
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a writing task to write a formal letter to a schoo
Writing task: a short semi-formal letter
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a writing task to write a short semi-formal letter
Teach me: words that link ideas in a speech or summary
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me expressions that help sequence and link ideas in
Teach me: the four types of phrases
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the four types of phrases — noun, adverbial, adje
Practise: filling gaps with the correct collocation
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a gap-fill exercise built around common collocatio
Practise: underlining adjuncts of manner in sentences
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a set of sentences and help me practise underlinin
Teach me: common English collocations to avoid word-for-word mistakes
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me common collocations such as 'a burning desire', '