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