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July 1977 5-a-day

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July 1977

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 5-6

Every sheet in July 1977

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

  1. 1st July 1977Find the misspelled word and explain the rule that fixes it: 'The two teams begining their match were evenly matched.'
  2. 2nd July 1977In your own words, explain how a polytunnel keeps crops warm, according to the extract.
  3. 3rd July 1977An 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.
  4. 4th July 1977Write one sentence using personification to describe a storm approaching.
  5. 5th July 1977Which happens first, according to the extract: pressing the sheet, or pouring the pulp onto the screen?
  6. 6th July 1977What is a rhetorical question, and identify one example from Extract B.
  7. 7th July 1977Write 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.
  8. 8th July 1977'The forge breathes its orange heat into the cold morning.' Explain what is being compared to what in this personification.
  9. 9th July 1977In the sentence 'No sensible person could deny that recycling saves the planet', which genre is most likely being used?
  10. 10th July 1977Round 0.0472 to 1 significant figure.
  11. 11th July 1977True or False: the pack with the lowest total price is always the best value for money.
  12. 12th July 1977Add together 1.2 kg and 350 g, giving your answer in kilograms.
  13. 13th July 1977AB + 15 = 62, where AB is a two-digit number with tens digit A and units digit B. Find the two-digit number AB.
  14. 14th July 1977Name a quadrilateral that has exactly one pair of parallel sides.
  15. 15th July 1977A thermometer is marked from -10 to 0 degrees C, with 5 equal divisions. What temperature is shown 2 divisions above -10?
  16. 16th July 1977A car's fuel gauge line graph shows the tank was full (50 litres) at the start of a journey and empty after travelling 400 km. Assuming fuel is used at a constant rate, how much fuel is left after 240 km?
  17. 17th July 1977A sequence begins 80, 72, 64, 56, ... Write down the next two terms.
  18. 18th July 1977A car journey of 240 km is completed in two stages. The first stage takes 2 hours at 60 km/h. The second stage covers the remaining distance in 1.5 hours. Work out the average speed for the second stage.
  19. 19th July 1977Bus A leaves at 14:05 and arrives at 15:40. Bus B leaves at 14:20 and takes the same journey time as Bus A. What time does Bus B arrive?
  20. 20th July 1977Double 6.5, then subtract 5.
  21. 21st July 1977A rectangle has length 9cm and width 4cm. Find its perimeter.
  22. 22nd July 1977Solve: 2n + 9 = 21.
  23. 23rd July 1977Find the area of a triangle with base 10cm and height 6cm.
  24. 24th July 1977Divide 96 by 8.
  25. 25th July 19775 pens cost 2 pounds 50. What is the cost of one pen?
  26. 26th July 1977What is the largest four-digit number that can be made using the digits 9, 1, 6 and 4 exactly once?
  27. 27th July 1977A grocer has 175 apples to pack into bags of 6. How many full bags can he make, and how many apples are left over?
  28. 28th July 1977Find 20% of 90.
  29. 29th July 1977Find the median of this data set: 6, 2, 9, 4, 7.
  30. 30th July 1977Divide 91 by 7.
  31. 31st July 1977A farmer has 245 eggs and packs them into boxes of 12. How many full boxes can be made, and how many eggs are left over?