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Write two contrasting composition types on the same subject
Act as my English tutor. I am in SS 2. Give me one subject and guide me to write two very
Summarise a passage answering only the aspects the question asks
Act as my WAEC English tutor. I am in SS 2. Give me a passage and a summary question that
Distinguish paraphrase from summary on the same passage
Act as my SS2 English tutor. Give me a paragraph and ask me to paraphrase it at roughly it
Summarise a scientific passage keeping only method and finding
Act as my English tutor. I am in SS 2. Give me a scientific or technical passage and ask m
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 the main points of a multi-party discussion
Act as my WAEC English tutor. I am in SS 2. Give me a transcript of a short discussion inv
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
Practise the own-words rule in summary writing
Act as my WAEC English tutor. I am in SS 2. Give me a passage with several distinctive phr
Emphatic stress and its shifting implications
Act as my WAEC English tutor. I am in SS 2. Give me the sentence 'I did not tell the nurse
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
Final consonant clusters of three and four elements
Act as my SS2 English tutor. Teach me to produce final consonant clusters accurately in wo
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
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 three syllables stressed on the second syllable
Act as my English tutor. I am in SS 2. Teach me a set of three-syllable words that are str
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
Stress in polysyllabic words: predicting stress from the ending
Act as my SS2 English tutor. Teach me how word endings like -ion, -ity, -ic and -ial predi
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