1,183 prompts matching "Timed essay: an article from a released past-paper title"
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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: writing simple and compound sentences
Act as my SS1 English tutor and help me practise writing my own simple and compound senten
Teach me: dependent and independent clauses
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Practise: identifying dependent and independent clauses in a passage
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Teach me: noun clauses and their functions
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Teach me: adjectival clauses and how they describe nouns
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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: telling synonyms and antonyms apart
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Teach me: shifting tense and pronouns for indirect speech
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Practise: converting a passage from direct to indirect speech
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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
Discuss: the language and meaning of a short poem
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Teach me: reading prose to deduce a writer's meaning
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Practise: a timed reading with comprehension questions afterwards
Act as my SS1 English tutor and time me reading a short passage, then ask me comprehension
Teach me: skimming a text and using topic sentences to find the gist
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Discuss: reading a play script for meaning
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a short play extract and discuss with me its main
Teach me: interpreting a poem's meaning and purpose
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Quiz me: answering questions on a poem I have read
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Teach me: reading a play script and identifying its themes
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