1,135 prompts matching "Subordinate the lesser idea for emphasis"
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Check my understanding: structuring a short talk for an audience
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Teach me: capital letters for proper nouns
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Teach me: how linkers and connectives join ideas
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Quiz me: replacing nouns with the right possessive pronoun
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Teach me: demonstrative pronouns this, that, these and those
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the demonstrative pronouns 'this', 'that', 'these
Practise: scanning, skimming and intensive reading on the same text
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Teach me: skimming a text for gist and finding topic sentences
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Teach me: naming home and family words for narrative writing
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Teach me: paragraphing, topic sentences and punctuation together
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Writing task: an informal letter to a friend
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Writing task: a formal letter to a school authority
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Writing task: a short semi-formal letter
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Teach me: spelling and related word forms
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Teach me: why befitting and beginning double their consonant
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Teach me: words that link ideas in a speech or summary
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Practise: choosing the correct relative pronoun
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Teach me: listening for main points and taking notes as I go
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how to listen to a talk, note down key words, and
Teach me: common English collocations to avoid word-for-word mistakes
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Practise: writing a summary from an outline of main ideas
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Teach me: what to scan for in a text
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