1,170 prompts matching "Working out why a character acts as they do"
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Teach me: reading a prepared passage aloud with accurate phrasing, pausing and emphasis
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me about reading a prepared passage aloud with accur
Quiz me: holding an allocated role in a structured discussion without taking over the group
Act as my SS1 English tutor and quiz me on holding an allocated role in a structured discu
Quiz me: persuading an audience known to disagree, without hostility
Act as my SS1 English tutor and quiz me on persuading an audience known to disagree, witho
Check my understanding: preparing and delivering a talk from note cards without reading
Act as my SS1 English tutor and check whether I understand preparing and delivering a talk
Check my understanding: comparing Digging and Not My Business as statements of a writer's position
Act as my SS1 English tutor and check my understanding of what each of the two poems says
Teach me: Act 1 of Antony and Cleopatra as Rome versus Egypt
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me about Scenes 3-5: the parting, Caesar's complaint
Discuss: comparing a poem's opening and closing stanzas
Act as my SS1 English tutor and discuss what changes in tone, image or argument between th
Practise: finding noun phrases in sentences
Act as my SS1 English tutor and help me practise identifying noun phrases within full sent
Teach me: possessive pronouns and how they work
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the possessive pronouns 'his', 'mine', 'hers', 't
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
Discuss: characters, plot and quotes in a set text extract
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a short extract from a recommended text and discus
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: 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 short story with a clear problem and setting
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a writing task to write a short story with a clear
Writing task: a formal letter to a school authority
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a writing task to write a formal letter to a schoo
Teach me: the four types of phrases
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the four types of phrases — noun, adverbial, adje
Teach me: what collocation means and why it matters
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me what collocation means, give me common examples,
Practise: using a range of phrasal verbs correctly
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a short activity where I have to choose the correc
Discuss: characters and dialogue in Romeo and Juliet
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me another short passage from Romeo and Juliet, and d