1,188 prompts matching "Mechanics check: mechanical accuracy in formal register writing"
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Boat Versus Bought: Diphthong Against Pure Vowel
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Teach me to keep the diphthong in boat /bəʊt/ apart from the
Fear Versus Fair: /ɪə/ Against /eə/
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Teach me the difference between fear /fɪə/ and fair /feə/, an
Thin Versus Tin: The /θ/–/t/ Contrast
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Teach me the consonant contrast between thin /θɪn/ and tin /t
Cap Versus Cab: Final Voicing Contrasts
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Teach me to keep cap /kæp/ distinct from cab /kæb/ at the end
Heat Versus Eat: The /h/ Or Nothing Contrast
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Teach me to say heat /hiːt/ and eat /iːt/ without wrongly add
Initial Clusters: Spring, Street, Scream, Splash
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Teach me to say spring /sprɪŋ/, street /striːt/, scream /skri
Final Clusters: Lamps, Thanks, Students
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Teach me to keep the full final consonant cluster in lamps /l
Final Clusters Of Four: Texts, Prompts, Sixths
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Teach me to articulate the demanding four-consonant final clu
Syllabic Consonant /l/ In Words Like Human
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Teach me the syllabic consonant sound in words like curious,
Syllabic /n/ In Words Like Sudden And Certain
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Teach me the syllabic /n/ sound in words like soften, sudden,
The /kw/ Sound In Quench, Quiet, Quarter
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Teach me the consonant cluster /kw/ in words like quench, qui
Emphatic Stress Changes The Meaning
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Teach me how moving the emphatic stress in a sentence like 'T
Tag Questions: Rising Or Falling
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Teach me how a tag question rises when it genuinely asks and
Elision And Assimilation In Connected Speech
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Teach me how elision drops sounds, as in 'next day' becoming
Linking /r/ Between Words
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Teach me how the linking /r/ sound joins words like 'far away
Reading The Full Phonemic Chart
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Show me the full 44-sound English phonemic chart and help me
Matching A Symbol To Its Sound Fast
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Give me four words at a time and ask me to say, within ten se
Reading Aloud With Accurate Phrasing
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Give me a short prepared passage and teach me to read it alou
Taking An Assigned Role In A Discussion
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Assign me a role — chair, recorder or challenger — in a struc
Listening Once For Main Points And Details
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