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February 1975 5-a-day

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February 1975

28 sheets · 140 questions · Years 5-6

Every sheet in February 1975

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

  1. 1st February 1975Give one word or phrase from the extract that describes how traditional greenhouses are heated.
  2. 2nd February 1975Explain what is meant by the idiom "bite the bullet" in the sentence: "Tom finally decided to bite the bullet and tell his coach he wanted to quit the team."
  3. 3rd February 1975Why should figurative language usually be used sparingly, one or two images per paragraph, rather than in every sentence?
  4. 4th February 1975Give one word from the extract that means 'spread out equally across a surface'.
  5. 5th February 1975In Extract A, what is Mia doing while the others have already jumped in?
  6. 6th February 1975What is a "circular ending", and why can it make a short story feel more complete?
  7. 7th February 1975'Sparks scattered like a handful of thrown stars.' Name the simile in this line.
  8. 8th February 1975True or False: on a mixed-genre paper, a question that asks pupils to compare tone across Extract A and Extract B could only be answered correctly using evidence from Extract A alone.
  9. 9th February 1975Round 17.68 to the nearest whole number.
  10. 10th February 1975Which is better value: 3 apples for 90p, or 5 apples for 1.40 pounds?
  11. 11th February 1975A bottle holds 1.5 litres. How many millilitres is this?
  12. 12th February 19754_ + 27 = 71, where the underscore is the missing units digit of the two-digit number. Find the missing digit.
  13. 13th February 1975Does a rhombus always have four right angles? Explain your answer.
  14. 14th February 1975A set of kitchen scales is labelled every 100 g, with 5 small divisions between each label. What does each small division represent?
  15. 15th February 1975True or False: on a conversion graph that passes through the origin, doubling the value on one axis always doubles the corresponding value on the other axis.
  16. 16th February 1975A sequence begins 9, 13, 17, 21, ... Find the nth term.
  17. 17th February 1975A tank holds 200 litres and is 3/8 full. How many more litres are needed to fill it completely?
  18. 18th February 1975Apples cost 45p each, or 40p each when bought in a bag of 6. What is the cost of a bag of 6 apples?
  19. 19th February 1975150 - 68
  20. 20th February 1975Two angles on a straight line are 65 degrees and x degrees. Find x.
  21. 21st February 1975A sequence begins 50, 44, 38, 32, ... Find the next term.
  22. 22nd February 1975Convert 2 hours 40 minutes into minutes.
  23. 23rd February 1975What is 8 more than 47?
  24. 24th February 1975Simplify the ratio 24:36.
  25. 25th February 1975Round 68,472 to the nearest thousand.
  26. 26th February 1975A tailor has 154 metres of fabric and uses 89 metres on one order. How many metres are left?
  27. 27th February 1975Find 75% of 160.
  28. 28th February 1975A bar chart shows 7 pupils scored a 'yellow' vote, 4 scored 'purple', and 9 scored 'orange'. How many pupils voted in total?