1,188 prompts matching "Mechanics check: mechanical accuracy in formal register writing"
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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
Practise: using a, an and some with countable and uncountable nouns
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Teach me: how linkers and connectives join ideas
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Teach me: turning adjectives and verbs into nouns (nominalisation)
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how to turn adjectives and verbs into nouns, for
Practise: building a table of nominalised words
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Practise: sorting verbs into regular and irregular groups
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Teach me: present simple, present continuous and perfect continuous tenses
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Quiz me: identifying complex tense forms in a text
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Teach me: finding the main idea of a paragraph
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Discuss: main ideas and themes in a short passage
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Teach me: the three reading sub-skills
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the three reading sub-skills — scanning, skimming
Practise: scanning, skimming and intensive reading on the same text
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Teach me: telling main points from supporting points in a text
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Discuss: interpreting a short story or passage
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Teach me: reading prose for characters, setting and plot
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Discuss: interpreting a prose passage together
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Teach me: working out word meaning from context
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Discuss: characters, plot and quotes in a set text extract
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Teach me: identifying a writer's mood, tone and purpose
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Quiz me: mood, tone and audience in a short passage
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