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The Mayor portrait

The Mayor says

Before you write your own, let us sharpen your eye. A guide who can spot the missing stop can build a tour a reader can actually follow.

Three ways to sharpen your eye before you write your own. No grades here, just practice.

Follow or lost?

Send each one to where it belongs.

Match the part of the tour

Tap a part of the Tour on the left, then the sentence that does its job on the right.

The part

The sentence

Finish the tour

Here is the Mayor's tour for frying an egg, with one line missing. Which note belongs in the blank?

  • Where we are going Frying an egg, in five careful steps.
  • Stop 1 Pan on medium heat with a pat of butter.
  • What to notice at stop 1  
  • Leave them knowing Now you can make breakfast for someone.