1,197 prompts matching "Drill: Identifying a figure of speech in a passage"
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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: reading prose for characters, setting and plot
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how to read a short prose passage and identify it
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: 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
Practise: editing a text for paragraphing and punctuation
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a short piece of writing with weak paragraphing an
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 descriptive piece about a place or event
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a writing task to write a descriptive piece about
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,
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
Teach me: the format and tone of a semi-formal letter
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me who a semi-formal letter is written to, its typic
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: spelling and related word forms
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me a set of words along with their related forms, fo
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: building new words with prefixes and suffixes
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a set of root words and help me practise adding pr
Check my understanding: reviewing my recent spelling mistakes
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Teach me: how to plan and deliver a short speech
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how to plan a short speech, including choosing a
Check my understanding: rating a debate using clear criteria
Act as my SS1 English tutor and check my understanding of what makes a strong debate perfo
Teach me: listening carefully to follow spoken directions
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how to listen carefully to a set of spoken instru
Practise: following directions given aloud
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a set of instructions aloud, one step at a time, h
Teach me: following the ideas in a debate as a listener
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how to listen to a debate, follow the arguments o