1,136 prompts matching "Identifying the writer's purpose by probing the text with questions"
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Practise: sorting phrases by type from a passage
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a short passage or set of sentences and help me pr
Practise: writing sentences with adjuncts of reason
Act as my SS1 English tutor and help me practise writing my own sentences that include an
Teach me: exploring the peculiar language of a Shakespearean extract
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Teach me: what to scan for in a text
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the difference between scanning and other reading
Teach me: the difference between biography and autobiography
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Teach me: writing a semi-formal letter with balanced tone
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Practise: a short spelling dictation with peer-style self-correction
Act as my SS1 English tutor and dictate a short list of words to me, have me write them do
Teach me: reading the phonetic chart and the 44 sounds of English
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how to read a phonetic chart, and walk me through
Practise: transcribing words using the phonetic chart
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a short list of words and help me practise transcr
Teach me: the different types of sentences
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Quiz me: telling adjectival clauses apart from other clause types
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Teach me: the difference between active and passive voice
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Teach me: the different types of pronouns
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the different types of pronouns in English and gi
Teach me: reading and appreciating a poem's purpose
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a short poem and teach me how to identify its purp
Teach me: interpreting a poem's meaning and purpose
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Teach me: reviewing the structure and features of poetry
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the structure and common features of poetry, incl
Teach me: homonyms and their different meanings
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me what homonyms are, give me examples of words that
Quiz me: choosing the correct meaning of a homonym
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Teach me: homophones and how to avoid mixing them up
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Practise: a dictation exercise with tricky homophones
Act as my SS1 English tutor and dictate a set of sentences containing homophones to me, ha