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1,170 prompts matching "Working out why a character acts as they do"

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Discuss: answering a Shakespeare context question

Act as my SS1 English tutor and discuss Antony and Cleopatra, Act 1 Scenes 1-2 -- locating

Quiz me: appreciating an unseen prose or poetry extract

Act as my SS1 English tutor and quiz me on the unseen appreciation component of the litera

Essay practice: quoting accurately from memory under exam pressure

Act as my SS1 English tutor and set me timed essay practice on building a bank of short, e

Check my understanding: planning a literature essay in the time allowed

Act as my SS1 English tutor and check my understanding of structuring an introduction, bod

Discuss: comparing how two set texts handle the same theme

Act as my SS1 English tutor and discuss structuring a comparison by feature rather than re

Quiz me: what a novel's title means by the end of the book

Act as my SS1 English tutor and quiz me on testing a theme statement against evidence from

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

Act as my SS1 English tutor and set me timed essay practice on structuring one argument th

Teach me: consonant sounds j, z and zh

Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the consonant sounds /j/ as in 'view' and 'yam',

Help me practise: sentences with j, z, zh, th sounds

Act as my SS1 English tutor and help me practise saying sentences that mix the sounds [j]

Quiz me: pronouncing words with a consonant-plus-w sound

Act as my SS1 English tutor and quiz me on pronouncing and using words such as 'twist', 's

Teach me: the /j/ sound after consonants and the syllabic /l/

Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me words like 'curious', 'cure', 'endure', 'human',

Practise: transcribing words with consonant-plus-j and syllabic l

Act as my SS1 English tutor and help me practise transcribing words such as 'curious', 'hu

Quiz me: identifying the syllabic n sound in different word positions

Act as my SS1 English tutor and quiz me on finding the syllabic [n] sound in words like 's

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

Help me practise: pronouncing two-syllable words stressed on the second syllable

Act as my SS1 English tutor and help me practise pronouncing words like 'enjoy', 'impound'

Quiz me: word stress on words like enjoy, invite and incite

Act as my SS1 English tutor and quiz me on saying and using words such as 'enjoy', 'invite

Teach me: words with the k-w consonant cluster

Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me words that contain a consonant sound followed by

Quiz me: features that reveal a speaker's style

Act as my SS1 English tutor and quiz me on spotting whether a short spoken extract is narr

Check my understanding: structuring a short talk for an audience

Act as my SS1 English tutor and check my understanding of how to organise a short talk, id

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