1,204 prompts matching "Choosing the meaning a word carries in the context it is given"
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Check my understanding: dramatic irony and what an audience knows that characters do not
Act as my SS1 English tutor and check whether I understand how a playwright lets the audie
Teach me: the sounds represented by j, z, zh, th (voiced) and th (voiceless)
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me to tell apart the consonant sounds shown by the s
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]
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',
Teach me: recognising a speaker's style when listening
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how to listen to a speech and work out whether th
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
Teach me: capital letters for proper nouns
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the rule for using capital letters with proper no
Practise: finding noun phrases in sentences
Act as my SS1 English tutor and help me practise identifying noun phrases within full sent
Teach me: how linkers and connectives join ideas
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the role of linkers or connectives such as 'howev
Teach me: possessive pronouns and how they work
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the possessive pronouns 'his', 'mine', 'hers', 't
Practise: using demonstrative pronouns in my own sentences
Act as my SS1 English tutor and help me practise writing my own sentences using 'this', 't
Quiz me: identifying topic sentences in paragraphs
Act as my SS1 English tutor and quiz me on picking out the topic sentence in each paragrap
Discuss: interpreting a short story or passage
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a short story or passage and discuss with me what
Teach me: reading prose for characters, setting and plot
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how to read a short prose passage and identify it
Discuss: characters, plot and quotes in a set text extract
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a short extract from a recommended text and discus
Teach me: reading a news report for key information
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how to read a news report to find out what happen
Give me feedback on: a short narrative I write
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a short narrative writing topic, let me write a sh
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: the format and tone of a formal letter
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the format of a formal letter — address and date,
Teach me: the format and tone of a semi-formal letter
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me who a semi-formal letter is written to, its typic