1,155 prompts matching "Summary skill: Locating the topic sentence of a paragraph"
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Practise: active and passive voice for deliberate emphasis
Act as my SS1 English tutor and help me practise active and passive voice for deliberate e
Practise: adjectival clauses
Act as my SS1 English tutor and help me practise adjectival clauses: restrictive vs non-re
Practise: distinguishing commonly confused word pairs in formal writing
Act as my SS1 English tutor and help me practise distinguishing commonly confused word pai
Check my understanding: telling apart tone, mood and attitude in a passage
Act as my SS1 English tutor and check my understanding of telling apart tone, mood and att
Check my understanding: reading non-fiction and media texts critically
Act as my SS1 English tutor and check my understanding of reading non-fiction and media te
Check my understanding: making economical, structured notes that will still make sense a week later
Act as my SS1 English tutor and check my understanding of making economical, structured no
Check my understanding: comparing two short texts on one subject for purpose, structure and tone
Act as my SS1 English tutor and check my understanding of comparing two short texts on one
Check my understanding: meeting an own-words rule, a points-only rule and a stated limit
Act as my SS1 English tutor and check my understanding of meeting an own-words rule, a poi
Quiz me: identifying j, z and zh sounds in words
Act as my SS1 English tutor and quiz me on picking out the sounds /j/, /z/ and /ʒ/ in word
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
Act as my SS1 English tutor and help me practise choosing correctly between 'a', 'an' and
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
Writing task: an informal letter to a friend
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a writing task to write an informal letter to a fr
Writing task: a formal letter to a school authority
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a writing task to write a formal letter to a schoo
Teach me: key vocabulary from a reading passage
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a short reading passage, teach me the meaning of i
Check my understanding: my progress in speaking
Act as my SS1 English tutor and check my understanding of my overall speaking progress so
Practise: sorting phrases by type from a passage
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a short passage or set of sentences and help me pr
Quiz me: spotting phrasal verbs in a passage
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a short passage and quiz me on finding the phrasal
Practise: correcting concord mistakes in a text
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a short text with some subject-verb agreement mist
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