1,170 prompts matching "Working out why a character acts as they do"
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Teach me: what a noun is and its main types
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the definition of a noun and its main types, and
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
Teach me: countable and uncountable nouns
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the difference between countable and uncountable
Practise: building a table of nominalised words
Act as my SS1 English tutor and help me build a table of adjectives and verbs alongside th
Quiz me: replacing nouns with the right possessive pronoun
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Teach me: present simple, present continuous and perfect continuous tenses
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how to build the present simple, present continuo
Quiz me: identifying complex tense forms in a text
Act as my SS1 English tutor and quiz me on reading a short text and identifying which comp
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
Teach me: the three reading sub-skills
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the three reading sub-skills — scanning, skimming
Practise: scanning, skimming and intensive reading on the same text
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me one short text and ask me questions that make me p
Teach me: telling main points from supporting points in a text
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how to separate the main points of a passage from
Discuss: how a report and an expository piece target their audience
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a short newspaper report and a short expository pi
Practise: guessing word meaning from context in a short text
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a short passage with a few difficult words underli
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
Teach me: skimming a text for gist and finding topic sentences
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how to skim a text quickly for its general meanin
Check my understanding: what happens at the start, middle and end of a text
Act as my SS1 English tutor and check my understanding of a short text by asking me to exp
Teach me: features of narrative writing
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the features of narrative writing, such as biogra
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: paragraphing, topic sentences and punctuation together
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Practise: editing a text for paragraphing and punctuation
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a short piece of writing with weak paragraphing an