520 prompts matching "Command words: what 'explain' really wants"
Idiom Explorer: 'hit the books'
Act as my Primary 5 English tutor and teach me the idiom 'hit the books', which means 'to
Idiom Explorer: 'under the weather'
Act as my Primary 5 English tutor and teach me the idiom 'under the weather', which means
Idiom Explorer: 'once in a blue moon'
Act as my Primary 5 English tutor and teach me the idiom 'once in a blue moon', which mean
Idiom Explorer: 'the ball is in your court'
Act as my Primary 5 English tutor and teach me the idiom 'the ball is in your court', whic
Idiom Explorer: 'piece of cake'
Act as my Primary 5 English tutor and teach me the idiom 'piece of cake', which means 'som
Idiom Explorer: 'keep an eye on'
Act as my Primary 5 English tutor and teach me the idiom 'keep an eye on', which means 'to
Idiom Explorer: 'a blessing in disguise'
Act as my Primary 5 English tutor and teach me the idiom 'a blessing in disguise', which m
Idiom Explorer: 'bite the bullet'
Act as my Primary 5 English tutor and teach me the idiom 'bite the bullet', which means 't
Handwriting Focus: consistent letter size
Act as my Primary 5 English tutor and teach me how to keep my letters a consistent size an
Presentation Skills: title pages and titles
Act as my Primary 5 English tutor and teach me how to choose and present a clear, neat tit
Spoken Language: giving a short talk with visual aids
Act as my Primary 5 English tutor and teach me how to plan and deliver a short spoken talk
Spoken Language: giving constructive feedback to a partner
Act as my Primary 5 English tutor and teach me how to give kind, useful spoken feedback to
Modal Verbs: quiz on possibility, ability and obligation
Act as my Primary 5 English tutor and teach me give me a mixed quiz of ten sentences testing modal verbs of possibility, ability and obligation, correcting me and explaining any mistakes.
Relative Clauses: spotting the relative pronoun
Act as my Primary 5 English tutor and teach me give me a short passage and ask me to find
Parenthesis: using brackets for a quick explanation
Act as my Primary 5 English tutor and teach me how to use brackets to give a quick explana
Parenthesis: editing my own sentence
Act as my Primary 5 English tutor and teach me help me take a sentence I have written and
Punctuation Focus: hyphens in compound adjectives
Act as my Primary 5 English tutor and teach me how to use a hyphen to join words into a co
Grammar Focus: Standard English versus informal speech
Act as my Primary 5 English tutor and teach me the difference between Standard English and
Grammar Focus: expanded noun phrases for detail
Act as my Primary 5 English tutor and teach me how to expand a simple noun phrase by addin
Grammar Focus: using synonyms to avoid repetition
Act as my Primary 5 English tutor and teach me how to use synonyms and pronouns to avoid r