717 prompts matching "Skimming a text for gist before answering questions"
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Practise: transcribing whole sentences phonemically, marking stress and weak forms
Act as my SS1 English tutor and help me practise transcribing whole sentences phonemically
Teach me: producing weak and strong forms of function words in connected speech
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me producing weak and strong forms of function words
Teach me: capital letters for proper nouns
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the rule for using capital letters with proper no
Teach me: regular and irregular verbs and their four forms
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the difference between regular and irregular verb
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
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
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: naming home and family words for narrative writing
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how to list words for people and activities in th
Teach me: the format and tone of an informal letter
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the format of an informal letter — address, salut
Writing task: an informal letter to a friend
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a writing task to write an informal letter to a fr
Teach me: the format and tone of a formal letter
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the format of a formal letter — address and date,
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 format and tone of a semi-formal letter
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me who a semi-formal letter is written to, its typic
Writing task: a short semi-formal letter
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a writing task to write a short semi-formal letter
Teach me: spelling and related word forms
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me a set of words along with their related forms, fo
Teach me: common English collocations to avoid word-for-word mistakes
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me common collocations such as 'a burning desire', '
Teach me: what an adverbial clause is and how it is formed
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me what an adverbial clause is, how it is formed, an
Practise: correcting concord mistakes in a text
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a short text with some subject-verb agreement mist
Discuss: interpreting a recommended text passage by passage
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me paragraphs from a recommended text one at a time,
Writing task: a short scene for a play
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a writing task to write a short scene for a play w