1,183 prompts matching "Scanning a text for the one sentence that answers a question"
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Quiz me: summarising the arguments from a debate I listened to
Act as my SS1 English tutor and describe a short debate to me and quiz me on summarising t
Teach me: exploring the peculiar language of a Shakespearean extract
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how to notice the unusual or old-fashioned langua
Quiz me: mood and tone across short paragraphs
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a few short paragraphs with different moods and to
Writing task: a short scene for a play
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Teach me: writing a newspaper article for a target audience
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Help me practise: making requests at different levels of formality
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Teach me: sentence stress in spoken sentences
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Practise: joining simple sentences into compound sentences
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Teach me: what makes a sentence complex
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Practise: identifying complex sentences in a paragraph
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Teach me: noun clauses and their functions
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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
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the difference between active and passive voice,
Practise: changing sentences from active to passive voice
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Practise: comparing my notes with the key points of a talk
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Discuss: reading a play script for meaning
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Teach me: planning a short story with characters and a theme
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how to plan a short story by choosing characters,
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
Complex Sentences Versus Simple And Compound
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Help me tell simple, compound and complex sentences apart by
When The Passive Voice Hides The Doer
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Explain how the passive voice can be used deliberately to hid