Daily Practice · GCSE
January 1961 5-a-day
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Every sheet in January 1961
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1961Write a two-sentence pair, one long and one short, describing a sudden silence after a loud crash.
- 2nd January 1961Combine into one complex sentence using a subordinating conjunction: 'The team trained hard. They wanted to win the final.'
- 3rd January 1961Explain why a writer might follow three long sentences with one very short sentence.
- 4th January 1961In 'the lift doors had jammed half-open,' identify one language technique.
- 5th January 1961Identify the technique in Victor's description of the Alps: 'the immense mountains and precipices...the palaces of nature.'
- 6th January 1961Identify the technique in the description of Bertha Mason as a figure locked in the attic at Thornfield.
- 7th January 1961Explain why a thematic essay should not be organised character by character.
- 8th January 1961What changes Elizabeth's view of Darcy, and in what order?
- 9th January 1961True or false: using only long, complex sentences throughout a piece creates strong sentence variety.
- 10th January 1961Identify the subordinating conjunction in: 'She left early because she felt unwell.'
- 11th January 1961Rewrite 'The dog barked loudly.' starting with an -ing clause instead of the subject.
- 12th January 1961In Section B, name one way to vary your writing for effect.
- 13th January 1961Give one piece of evidence that Victor abandons responsibility for his creation.
- 14th January 1961Give one piece of evidence that Jane and Rochester marry as equals rather than as master and servant.
- 15th January 1961How does the natural world reflect the disorder Macbeth causes?
- 16th January 1961Why does Elizabeth refuse Mr Collins, and what does the refusal show?
- 17th January 1961Which is more likely to create impact at the end of a tense paragraph: a long complex sentence or a short simple sentence?
- 18th January 1961Identify the relative pronoun in: 'The book, which was on the table, belonged to my sister.'
- 19th January 1961Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang.'
- 20th January 1961How many marks in Section B are for technical accuracy in spelling, punctuation and grammar?
- 21st January 1961Where does Victor first create and reject the Creature?
- 22nd January 1961Name Jane's close friend at Lowood school, who dies of consumption/typhus.
- 23rd January 1961Why is the sleepwalking scene written in prose when Lady Macbeth speaks in verse elsewhere?
- 24th January 1961Explain what the entail is and why it drives the plot.
- 25th January 1961Explain in one sentence why a single-word sentence such as 'Gone.' can be effective.
- 26th January 1961Is 'When the bell rang' a main clause or a subordinate clause?
- 27th January 1961Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang, and the students filed out.'
- 28th January 1961What should the structure question track across the whole extract?
- 29th January 1961Who is wrongly executed for the murder of Victor's brother William?
- 30th January 1961Why does Jane leave Thornfield Hall on what should have been her wedding day?
- 31st January 1961What is the effect of ending the play with Macbeth's severed head displayed on a pole?