1,204 prompts matching "Expressions that pass in speech but not in an examination"
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Exam drill: prepositional phrases and the preposition that idiom fixes
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Check my understanding: consolidating punctuation rules
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Practise: active and passive voice for deliberate emphasis
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Teach me: converting direct speech to reported speech
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Teach me: idiomatic and figurative structures whose grammar cannot be altered
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Teach me: drawing supported inferences and telling inference apart from guessing
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Practise: identifying a writer's purpose and intended audience
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Teach me: skimming for gist and scanning for detail against the clock
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Exam-style practice: tracking how a writer's tone modulates across a whole passage
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Teach me: choosing between a technical, legal and everyday sense of a word in context
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Practise: skimming and scanning dense official prose under strict time limits
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Teach me: revising registers, idioms and sense relations
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Practise: answering comprehension questions on a literary extract
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Quiz me: identifying the organisational pattern of a whole text
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Exam-style practice: distinguishing a word's denotation from its connotation in context
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Practise: evaluating the reliability of a source by authorship, evidence and interest
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Teach me: meeting all seven WAEC comprehension question types together on one passage
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Practise: British and American spelling and usage differences
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Writing task: planning and writing a narrative of at least 450 words with a controlled
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Exam-style practice: distinguishing a writer's main points from the examples that illustrate them
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