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April 1970 5-a-day

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April 1970

30 sheets · 150 questions · Years 5-6

Every sheet in April 1970

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st April 1970Convert to reported speech: 'We will finish the project tomorrow,' said the team.
  2. 2nd April 1970Add the correct suffix, applying the doubling rule: 'run' + '-ing' = ?
  3. 3rd April 1970Find the misspelled word and explain the rule that fixes it: 'The two teams begining their match were evenly matched.'
  4. 4th April 1970In your own words, explain how a polytunnel keeps crops warm, according to the extract.
  5. 5th April 1970An idiom you have not seen before, "jump on the bandwagon", appears in this sentence: "Once one shop started selling the toy, every other shop jumped on the bandwagon." Using context alone, suggest a sensible meaning.
  6. 6th April 1970Write one sentence using personification to describe a storm approaching.
  7. 7th April 1970Which happens first, according to the extract: pressing the sheet, or pouring the pulp onto the screen?
  8. 8th April 1970What is a rhetorical question, and identify one example from Extract B.
  9. 9th April 1970Write one opening line for a story about a boy who finds a locked door in his new house, using a piece of dialogue mid-conversation as your hook.
  10. 10th April 1970'The forge breathes its orange heat into the cold morning.' Explain what is being compared to what in this personification.
  11. 11th April 1970In the sentence 'No sensible person could deny that recycling saves the planet', which genre is most likely being used?
  12. 12th April 1970A shop's till shows a bill of 179.40 pounds for 6 identical items. Estimate the price of one item by rounding the total to the nearest 10 pounds first.
  13. 13th April 1970A 2-litre bottle of squash costs 3.00 pounds and a 3-litre bottle costs 4.20 pounds. Which is better value per litre?
  14. 14th April 1970Add together 1.2 kg and 350 g, giving your answer in kilograms.
  15. 15th April 19709 x 6 = 5_, where the underscore is the missing units digit of the answer. Find the missing digit.
  16. 16th April 1970Name a quadrilateral with two pairs of parallel sides and equal opposite angles, but sides that are not all equal and no right angles.
  17. 17th April 1970A ruler is marked in centimetres, with 10 small divisions between each centimetre mark. What does each small division represent?
  18. 18th April 1970A conversion graph shows that 10 miles is equal to 16 km. How many km is 5 miles?
  19. 19th April 1970A sequence begins 80, 72, 64, 56, ... Write down the next two terms.
  20. 20th April 1970Three friends share a bill in the ratio 2:3:5. If the total bill is 60 pounds, how much does the friend with the largest share pay?
  21. 21st April 1970A journey of 245km is covered at an average speed of 70km/h. How long does the journey take?
  22. 22nd April 1970Find 5% of 220.
  23. 23rd April 1970A rectangle has length 9cm and width 4cm. Find its perimeter.
  24. 24th April 1970Solve: 2n + 9 = 21.
  25. 25th April 1970Find the area of a triangle with base 10cm and height 6cm.
  26. 26th April 1970Divide 96 by 8.
  27. 27th April 19705 pens cost 2 pounds 50. What is the cost of one pen?
  28. 28th April 1970What is the largest four-digit number that can be made using the digits 9, 1, 6 and 4 exactly once?
  29. 29th April 1970A grocer has 175 apples to pack into bags of 6. How many full bags can he make, and how many apples are left over?
  30. 30th April 1970Find 20% of 90.