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1,170 prompts matching "Working out why a character acts as they do"

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Teach me: reading a prepared passage aloud with accurate phrasing, pausing and emphasis

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Quiz me: holding an allocated role in a structured discussion without taking over the group

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Quiz me: persuading an audience known to disagree, without hostility

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Check my understanding: preparing and delivering a talk from note cards without reading

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Check my understanding: comparing Digging and Not My Business as statements of a writer's position

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Teach me: Act 1 of Antony and Cleopatra as Rome versus Egypt

Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me about Scenes 3-5: the parting, Caesar's complaint

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Discuss: comparing a poem's opening and closing stanzas

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Practise: finding noun phrases in sentences

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Teach me: possessive pronouns and how they work

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Discuss: interpreting a short story or passage

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Teach me: reading prose for characters, setting and plot

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Discuss: characters, plot and quotes in a set text extract

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Teach me: why and how to summarise a text

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Teach me: building a short story around key characters

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Writing task: a short story with a clear problem and setting

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Writing task: a formal letter to a school authority

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Teach me: the four types of phrases

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Teach me: what collocation means and why it matters

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Practise: using a range of phrasal verbs correctly

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Discuss: characters and dialogue in Romeo and Juliet

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