1,179 prompts matching "Idiom clinic IV: idioms about change and progress"
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Discuss: comparing how two set texts handle the same theme
Act as my SS1 English tutor and discuss structuring a comparison by feature rather than re
Check my understanding: the difference between what a character says and what a character does
Act as my SS1 English tutor and check whether I understand using contradiction between spe
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
Check my understanding: dramatic irony and what an audience knows that characters do not
Act as my SS1 English tutor and check whether I understand how a playwright lets the audie
Quiz me: identifying j, z and zh sounds in words
Act as my SS1 English tutor and quiz me on picking out the sounds /j/, /z/ and /ʒ/ in word
Practise: transcribing words with consonant-plus-j and syllabic l
Act as my SS1 English tutor and help me practise transcribing words such as 'curious', 'hu
Quiz me: word stress on words like enjoy, invite and incite
Act as my SS1 English tutor and quiz me on saying and using words such as 'enjoy', 'invite
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
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: countable and uncountable nouns
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the difference between countable and uncountable
Practise: using a, an and some with countable and uncountable nouns
Act as my SS1 English tutor and help me practise choosing correctly between 'a', 'an' and
Teach me: present simple, present continuous and perfect continuous tenses
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how to build the present simple, present continuo
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
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
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
Check my understanding: what happens at the start, middle and end of a text
Act as my SS1 English tutor and check my understanding of a short text by asking me to exp
Teach me: paragraphing, topic sentences and punctuation together
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how paragraphing styles, logical sequencing of id
Teach me: why and how to summarise a text
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me why summarising is a useful skill, and show me th
Teach me: the format and tone of an informal letter
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the format of an informal letter — address, salut