1,200 prompts matching "Test of Orals drill III: bird /bɜːd/ and word /wɜːd/"
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Discuss: point, quotation and comment as an essay-writing method
Act as my SS1 English tutor and discuss turning a paragraph away from retelling and toward
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
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
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
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
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: finding the main idea of a paragraph
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how to read a paragraph and work out its main ide
Practise: scanning, skimming and intensive reading on the same text
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me one short text and ask me questions that make me p
Discuss: how a report and an expository piece target their audience
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a short newspaper report and a short expository pi
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
Discuss: characters, plot and quotes in a set text extract
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a short extract from a recommended text and discus
Practise: summarising a news report in my own words
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a short news report and help me practise summarisi
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
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
Writing task: a short story with a clear problem and setting
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a writing task to write a short story with a clear
Teach me: the language of descriptive writing
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me what descriptive writing aims to do, and show me
Teach me: words that link ideas in a speech or summary
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me expressions that help sequence and link ideas in
Teach me: relative pronouns who, whom, whose, which and that
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the relative pronouns 'who', 'whom', 'whose', 'wh