1,200 prompts matching "Weak and strong forms of common function words"
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Essay practice: writing a comparative answer across two prescribed texts
Act as my SS1 English tutor and set me timed essay practice on structuring one argument th
Teach me: recognising a speaker's style when listening
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Quiz me: features that reveal a speaker's style
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Teach me: capital letters for proper nouns
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Teach me: what a noun phrase is
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me what a noun phrase is, using examples such as 'Th
Practise: finding noun phrases in sentences
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Practise: filling gaps with the right linker
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a short gap-fill exercise using linkers such as 'h
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
Discuss: interpreting a short story or passage
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Teach me: telling apart a newspaper report from expository writing
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Discuss: interpreting a prose passage together
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Writing task: a short narrative about my home or family
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Writing task: summarising a short passage in a few sentences
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Teach me: describing directions from a map
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Writing task: writing instructions to get from school to my house
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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: vocabulary connected to fishing
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me vocabulary connected to fishing, such as 'fishing
Practise: using sequencing expressions in a short piece
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Practise: a dictation exercise with punctuation check
Act as my SS1 English tutor and read me a short passage for dictation, have me write it do