1,204 prompts matching "Explaining an idiom used in a passage"
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Teach me: summarising a narrative passage into ordered points
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the technique for summarising a narrative passage
Practise: writing an article for a school magazine with a headline and readable structure
Act as my SS1 English tutor and help me practise writing an article for a school magazine
Practise: revising written forms, planning and timing
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Practise: separating point from example across a long passage before summarising it
Act as my SS1 English tutor and help me practise separating point from example across a lo
Writing task: summarising a full-length passage without losing points from its later sections
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a writing task on summarising a full-length passag
Writing task: summarising a passage in exactly the number of sentences specified
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a writing task on summarising a passage in exactly
Practise: summarising from two sources, merging points that agree and marking those that conflict
Act as my SS1 English tutor and help me practise summarising from two sources, merging poi
Practise: completing a full mock summary at examination standard
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Practise: using a, an and some with countable and uncountable nouns
Act as my SS1 English tutor and help me practise choosing correctly between 'a', 'an' and
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
Practise: sorting verbs into regular and irregular groups
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a list of verbs drawn from a story about a birthda
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
Teach me: working out word meaning from context
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how to work out the meaning of an unfamiliar word
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: paragraphing, topic sentences and punctuation together
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Writing task: summarising a short passage in a few sentences
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a short passage to read and a writing task to summ