1,133 prompts matching "Summarise a passage under the constraint of a specific number of sentences"
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Quiz me: identifying topic sentences in paragraphs
Act as my SS1 English tutor and quiz me on picking out the topic sentence in each paragrap
Teach me: telling main points from supporting points in a text
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how to separate the main points of a passage from
Teach me: working out word meaning from context
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how to work out the meaning of an unfamiliar word
Practise: guessing word meaning from context in a short text
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a short passage with a few difficult words underli
Teach me: identifying a writer's mood, tone and purpose
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how to tell apart a writer's mood, tone and purpo
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: what a phrasal verb is
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me what a phrasal verb is, using examples from a pas
Discuss: characters and dialogue in Romeo and Juliet
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me another short passage from Romeo and Juliet, and d
Teach me: what to scan for in a text
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the difference between scanning and other reading
Teach me: vocabulary used in newspaper reporting
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me vocabulary connected with newspaper reporting, an
Teach me: reading prose to deduce a writer's meaning
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a short prose passage and teach me how to deduce b
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
Testing A Noun Clause With 'It'
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Show me the trick of replacing a noun clause with 'it' or 'so
Dependent Versus Independent Clauses
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Teach me to tell a dependent clause from an independent one,
Concord With Quantifiers And Collective Nouns
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Explain the difference in number between 'each', 'none', 'a n
Matching A Pronoun To Its Antecedent
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Teach me the WAEC comprehension trick of finding exactly what
Naming A Word Class And Its Function
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Teach me how to answer a WAEC-style item that asks me to name
Editing Against My Own Five Errors
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Ask me to list the five grammar or spelling mistakes I make m
Tone, Mood And Attitude: Three Separate Ideas
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Explain clearly that tone is the writer's manner, mood is the
Finding Precise Tone Words
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Push me to use precise tone words like wry, indignant or resi