1,189 prompts matching "Explaining a symbol in a passage"
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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
Act as my SS1 English tutor and help me practise completing a full mock summary at examina
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: 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: 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
Quiz me: identifying topic sentences in paragraphs
Act as my SS1 English tutor and quiz me on picking out the topic sentence in each paragrap
Teach me: telling main points from supporting points in a text
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how to separate the main points of a passage from
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
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how paragraphing styles, logical sequencing of id
Teach me: vocabulary connected to fishing
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me vocabulary connected to fishing, such as 'fishing
Quiz me: spelling and meaning of religious terms
Act as my SS1 English tutor and dictate a set of religious terms to me connected to Islam
Check my understanding: reviewing my recent spelling mistakes
Act as my SS1 English tutor and check my understanding of the spelling rules I have been l
Quiz me: summarising the arguments from a debate I listened to
Act as my SS1 English tutor and describe a short debate to me and quiz me on summarising t
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