1,204 prompts matching "Expressions that pass in speech but not in an examination"
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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
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: 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
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
Teach me: possessive pronouns and how they work
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the possessive pronouns 'his', 'mine', 'hers', 't
Teach me: regular and irregular verbs and their four forms
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the difference between regular and irregular verb
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
Teach me: the three reading sub-skills
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the three reading sub-skills — scanning, skimming
Teach me: telling apart a newspaper report from expository writing
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how to tell a newspaper report apart from exposit
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
Practise: summarising a news report in my own words
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a short news report and help me practise summarisi
Teach me: features of narrative writing
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the features of narrative writing, such as biogra
Writing task: a short narrative about my home or family
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a writing task to write a short narrative about my
Teach me: why and how to summarise a text
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me why summarising is a useful skill, and show me th
Teach me: describing directions from a map
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the language used for describing directions from
Writing task: writing instructions to get from school to my house
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a writing task to write clear instructions for get
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
Writing task: a descriptive piece about a place or event
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a writing task to write a descriptive piece about
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,