Daily Practice · GCSE
July 1960 5-a-day
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- 1st July 1960True or false: using only long, complex sentences throughout a piece creates strong sentence variety.
- 2nd July 1960Identify the subordinating conjunction in: 'She left early because she felt unwell.'
- 3rd July 1960Rewrite 'The dog barked loudly.' starting with an -ing clause instead of the subject.
- 4th July 1960In Section B, name one way to vary your writing for effect.
- 5th July 1960Give one piece of evidence that Victor abandons responsibility for his creation.
- 6th July 1960Give one piece of evidence that Jane and Rochester marry as equals rather than as master and servant.
- 7th July 1960Explain what equivocation means in the play and why it matters to the theme of appearance and reality.
- 8th July 1960Define free indirect discourse and give one moment where Austen's use of it misleads the reader.
- 9th July 1960Which is more likely to create impact at the end of a tense paragraph: a long complex sentence or a short simple sentence?
- 10th July 1960Identify the relative pronoun in: 'The book, which was on the table, belonged to my sister.'
- 11th July 1960Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang.'
- 12th July 1960How many marks in Section B are for technical accuracy in spelling, punctuation and grammar?
- 13th July 1960Where does Victor first create and reject the Creature?
- 14th July 1960Name Jane's close friend at Lowood school, who dies of consumption/typhus.
- 15th July 1960Name three themes in Macbeth other than ambition, and give one moment in the play where each is most visible.
- 16th July 1960How does Austen use Mr Collins for satire?
- 17th July 1960Explain in one sentence why a single-word sentence such as 'Gone.' can be effective.
- 18th July 1960Is 'When the bell rang' a main clause or a subordinate clause?
- 19th July 1960Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang, and the students filed out.'
- 20th July 1960What should the structure question track across the whole extract?
- 21st July 1960Who is wrongly executed for the murder of Victor's brother William?
- 22nd July 1960Why does Jane leave Thornfield Hall on what should have been her wedding day?
- 23rd July 1960Explain why a thematic essay should not be organised character by character.
- 24th July 1960What changes Elizabeth's view of Darcy, and in what order?
- 25th July 1960Rewrite these two short sentences as one varied complex sentence: 'The rain fell. The streets flooded.'
- 26th July 1960Underline (state) the main clause: 'Because it was raining, the match was postponed.'
- 27th July 1960Rewrite 'It was raining. We stayed inside.' as one compound sentence.
- 28th July 1960How many sections does Paper 1 have?
- 29th July 1960True or false: Victor completes the female companion the Creature demands.
- 30th July 1960Who mistreats Jane at Gateshead Hall before she is sent away to school?
- 31st July 1960How does the natural world reflect the disorder Macbeth causes?