Daily Practice - 11+ Entrance
English, maths and verbal and non-verbal reasoning at entrance-exam pitch.
22nd September 2020
- 1Comprehension: Poetry Set 6
How many lines are quoted in 'Every night I feed the light its steady diet of flame, / so that far-off ships need never fear the rocks below'?
- 2Comprehension: Classic Fiction Set 5
'The years slipped by quickly after that: the children grew, the shop changed hands twice, and the town spread further along the river.' Is this sentence an example of summarised time or a closely detailed scene? Explain your answer.
- 3Comprehension: Playscript Extract Set 1
Why might a playscript use short, clipped lines of dialogue between two characters rather than longer speeches?
- 4SPaG Depth Set 6
Explain why a scientist writing up an experiment might write 'The solution was heated' rather than 'I heated the solution.'
- 5Vocabulary and Word Skills Set 7
Explain what is meant by the idiom "a piece of cake" in the sentence: "After weeks of practice, the spelling test felt like a piece of cake."
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