1,138 prompts matching "skimming a text for gist and finding topic sentences"
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Answering questions on a recommended prose text extract
Act as my SS2 English tutor. Give me a short extract from a recommended novel and ask me t
Reading a passage focused on fluency and accuracy
Act as my English tutor. I am in SS 2. Time me reading a passage aloud, then ask me compre
Reading for the writer's presence: active versus passive voice
Act as my English tutor. I am in SS 2. Give me short extracts from different genres and as
Redraft a piece of my own writing to a higher standard
Act as my WAEC English tutor. I am in SS 2. Take a short piece I have already written and
Practise writing openings and endings side by side
Act as my English tutor. I am in SS 2. Give me a weak opening and a weak ending from a sam
Write a composition and check it against a word limit
Act as my English tutor. I am in SS 2. Give me a composition title with a required minimum
Summarise a passage carrying an argument and its counter-argument
Act as my SS2 English tutor. Give me a passage that contains both an argument and a counte
Build a points scheme from a passage before marking
Act as my English tutor. I am in SS 2. Give me a passage and guide me to build my own poin
Summarise a passage while keeping the third person and present tense
Act as my WAEC English tutor. I am in SS 2. Give me a first-person passage written in the
Summarise a passage focused on cause and effect
Act as my SS2 English tutor. Give me a passage explaining a cause-and-effect process and a
Summarise a passage identifying and excluding irrelevant detail
Act as my English tutor. I am in SS 2. Give me a passage with some interesting but irrelev
Elision, assimilation and linking in connected speech
Act as my WAEC English tutor. I am in SS 2. Teach me how sounds change when words meet in
Short and long vowel pairs: /ɪ/ and /iː/
Act as my SS2 English tutor. Teach me the difference between short /ɪ/ and long /iː/ using
Nasal consonant sounds /n/, /m/ and /ŋ/
Act as my SS2 English tutor. Teach me the nasal consonants /n/, /m/ and /ŋ/, explain where
Consonants /s/ and /z/, and the clusters /ts/ and /dz/
Act as my English tutor. I am in SS 2. Teach me to distinguish voiced and voiceless conson
Vowels /u/ and /uː/ distinguished in speech
Act as my SS2 English tutor. Teach me the difference between the short vowel in 'full' and
Words of five syllables and multiple stress patterns
Act as my WAEC English tutor. I am in SS 2. Teach me how to count syllables in long words
Syllabic consonant /l/ and giving spoken directions
Act as my SS2 English tutor. Teach me the syllabic consonant /l/ in words like 'little' an
Selected consonants /j/, /z/ and /ʒ/
Act as my English tutor. I am in SS 2. Teach me to pronounce and differentiate the consona
Word stress in monosyllabic and polysyllabic words
Act as my WAEC English tutor. I am in SS 2. Explain the difference between monosyllabic an