1,143 prompts matching "Reading for the writer's presence: active versus passive voice"
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Essay practice: evaluating how a play resolves, or fails to resolve, its central conflict
Act as my SS1 English tutor and set me timed essay practice on judging an ending using two
Essay practice: writing a comparative answer across two prescribed texts
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Teach me: stress on two-syllable words like enjoy and invite
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me what a syllable is and how stress works in two-sy
Teach me: countable and uncountable nouns
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the difference between countable and uncountable
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: turning adjectives and verbs into nouns (nominalisation)
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Practise: building a table of nominalised words
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Teach me: present simple, present continuous and perfect continuous tenses
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Practise: using demonstrative pronouns in my own sentences
Act as my SS1 English tutor and help me practise writing my own sentences using 'this', 't
Discuss: interpreting a short story or passage
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Teach me: telling apart a newspaper report from expository writing
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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
Quiz me: mood, tone and audience in a short passage
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Writing task: a short narrative about my home or family
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Teach me: describing directions from a map
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Writing task: writing instructions to get from school to my house
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Teach me: building a short story around key characters
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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
Practise: a dictation exercise with punctuation check
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