1,199 prompts matching "Vocabulary drill: the words that give each register away"
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Practise: recasting a sentence into a stated grammatical alternative without changing its meaning
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Practise: identifying a writer's purpose and intended audience
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Check my understanding: telling apart tone, mood and attitude in a passage
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Practise: making accurate, abbreviated notes from a text
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Check my understanding: reading non-fiction and media texts critically
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Practise: skimming and scanning dense official prose under strict time limits
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Practise: answering comprehension questions on a literary extract
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Check my understanding: comparing two short texts on one subject for purpose, structure and tone
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Practise: British and American spelling and usage differences
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Check my understanding: summarising a passage to an exact stated number of sentences
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Practise: writing an article for a school magazine with a headline and readable structure
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Check my understanding: self-marking a summary honestly against a points scheme
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Writing task: writing an argumentative essay with a stated position and an answered counter-argument
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Practise: revising written forms, planning and timing
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Check my understanding: writing an expository essay where every paragraph has a topic sentence
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Writing task: summarising an argument so its concession and conclusion both survive
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Practise: separating point from example across a long passage before summarising it
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Check my understanding: writing a formal report where every recommendation traces back
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Writing task: summarising a non-fiction text without reproducing its statistics as points
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Check my understanding: writing a narrative whose ending is prepared for by earlier material
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