1,204 prompts matching "IGCSE English Y11: How the reading marks here are earned — Common Mistakes"
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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
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
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Teach me: features of narrative writing
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Teach me: naming home and family words for narrative writing
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Teach me: describing directions from a map
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Teach me: building a short story around key characters
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how to plan a short story by choosing key charact
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
Teach me: prefixes and suffixes (affixes)
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me what affixes are, the difference between prefixes
Practise: a full spelling test with self-correction
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a short spelling test using words I have been stru
Teach me: listening for main points and taking notes as I go
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how to listen to a talk, note down key words, and
Practise: shifting sentence stress to change meaning
Act as my SS1 English tutor and help me practise saying the same sentence with the stress
Teach me: listening carefully to follow spoken directions
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how to listen carefully to a set of spoken instru
Check my understanding: my progress in speaking
Act as my SS1 English tutor and check my understanding of my overall speaking progress so
Teach me: what a phrasal verb is
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Practise: using a range of phrasal verbs correctly
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Teach me: adjuncts of place and time
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me what an adjunct is and how adjuncts of place and
Teach me: adjuncts of manner
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Teach me: subject-verb agreement (concord)
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Teach me: interpreting a book's plot and characters from an extract
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