1,204 prompts matching "Summary skill: Writing an expository summary in your own words"
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Teach me: listening to and discussing a talk on a current issue
Act as my SS1 English tutor and describe or summarise a short talk on a current issue for
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: language for speaking persuasively
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the kind of language used to speak persuasively a
Help me practise: persuading an audience on a short spoken topic
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Teach me: what oratory is and how it differs from ordinary speech
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me what oratory means, how it differs from ordinary
Teach me: listening for narration, description and argument in a debate
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how to listen to a debate and notice where the sp
Practise: correcting my own sentence stress
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a few sentences to say aloud, listen for where I p
Teach me: dependent and independent clauses
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me what a clause is, and explain the difference betw
Practise: changing sentences from active to passive voice
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Teach me: telling synonyms and antonyms apart
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the difference between synonyms and antonyms, and
Teach me: shifting tense and pronouns for indirect speech
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how to change direct speech into indirect (report
Discuss: theme and language in another Romeo and Juliet extract
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me another short extract from Romeo and Juliet and di
Teach me: exploring setting and plot in a recommended book
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Discuss: comparing this extract of Romeo and Juliet with an earlier one
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Discuss: the language and meaning of a short poem
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a short poem to read, then discuss with me its lan
Teach me: reading prose to deduce a writer's meaning
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Practise: answering intensive reading questions on a prose extract
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a short prose extract and a set of intensive readi
Teach me: reading for both speed and accuracy
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how to balance reading speed with accuracy, and g
Teach me: skimming a text and using topic sentences to find the gist
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how to skim a text for its general meaning by ide
Discuss: main ideas and themes in a recommended text
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a short chapter or extract from a recommended text