306 prompts matching "Picture time: Learning a poem by heart"
Simile or metaphor? tell them apart
Act as my Primary 6 English tutor. Teach me the difference between a simile and a metaphor
Onomatopoeia hunt: sound words in stories
Act as my Primary 6 English tutor. Teach me what onomatopoeia is, give me a list of sound
Proverb power: Nigerian proverbs and their meanings
Act as my Primary 6 English tutor. Teach me the meaning behind well-known Nigerian proverb
Understatement: saying less to mean more
Act as my Primary 6 English tutor. Teach me what understatement means with examples, and c
Five senses vocabulary bank builder
Act as my Primary 6 English tutor. Help me build a bank of descriptive words for each of t
Expanding a sentence with powerful adjectives
Act as my Primary 6 English tutor. Help me practise expanding a plain sentence by adding p
Command words: what 'explain' really wants
Act as my Primary 6 English tutor. Teach me what the command word 'explain' expects in a c
Skimming skill: getting the gist fast
Act as my Primary 6 English tutor. Teach me how to skim a short passage quickly to get the
Scanning skill: finding an answer fast
Act as my Primary 6 English tutor. Teach me how to scan a passage quickly to find a specif
Using quotation marks to prove my answer
Act as my Primary 6 English tutor. Teach me how to lift a short quotation from a text as e
Inference questions: reading between the lines
Act as my Primary 6 English tutor. Teach me how to answer inference questions by reading b
Common Entrance exam: pacing myself across sections
Act as my Primary 6 English tutor. Teach me how to pace myself sensibly across the differe
Fronted adverbials to open a sentence
Act as my Primary 6 English tutor. Teach me how to open a sentence with a fronted adverbia
Linking paragraphs with adverbials of place
Act as my Primary 6 English tutor. Teach me how to link paragraphs together using adverbia
Using pronouns to avoid repeating a noun
Act as my Primary 6 English tutor. Teach me how to use pronouns correctly to avoid repeati
Repetition as a deliberate cohesive device
Act as my Primary 6 English tutor. Teach me how writers sometimes repeat words on purpose
Presentation checklist for neat exam writing
Act as my Primary 6 English tutor. Teach me a simple checklist for presenting my exam writ
Asking a good follow-up question after a talk
Act as my Primary 6 English tutor. Teach me how to ask a thoughtful follow-up question aft
Using evidence to back up a spoken opinion
Act as my Primary 6 English tutor. Teach me how to support a spoken opinion with clear evi
Modal verbs: must, might, could, should
Act as my Primary 6 English tutor. Teach me how modal verbs like must, might, could and sh