Daily Practice · GCSE
June 1972 5-a-day
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Every sheet in June 1972
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st June 1972In 'The man who lives next door, although he is quiet, works nights,' how many subordinate clauses are there?
- 2nd June 1972Identify the sentence type: 'Although the bell rang, nobody moved.'
- 3rd June 1972What does the four-mark question at the start of Section A test?
- 4th June 1972Who is the recipient of the letters that frame the novel?
- 5th June 1972True or false: Jane marries St John Rivers.
- 6th June 1972What is the effect of ending the play with Macbeth's severed head displayed on a pole?
- 7th June 1972Why is the opening sentence ironic?
- 8th June 1972Write a two-sentence pair, one long and one short, describing a sudden silence after a loud crash.
- 9th June 1972Combine into one complex sentence using a subordinating conjunction: 'The team trained hard. They wanted to win the final.'
- 10th June 1972Explain why a writer might follow three long sentences with one very short sentence.
- 11th June 1972In 'the lift doors had jammed half-open,' identify one language technique.
- 12th June 1972Identify the technique in Victor's description of the Alps: 'the immense mountains and precipices...the palaces of nature.'
- 13th June 1972Identify the technique in the description of Bertha Mason as a figure locked in the attic at Thornfield.
- 14th June 1972Give one way to bring in context on witchcraft without simply reciting a fact.
- 15th June 1972Give one way the novel presents the limits placed on women.
- 16th June 1972True or false: using only long, complex sentences throughout a piece creates strong sentence variety.
- 17th June 1972Identify the subordinating conjunction in: 'She left early because she felt unwell.'
- 18th June 1972Rewrite 'The dog barked loudly.' starting with an -ing clause instead of the subject.
- 19th June 1972In Section B, name one way to vary your writing for effect.
- 20th June 1972Give one piece of evidence that Victor abandons responsibility for his creation.
- 21st June 1972Give one piece of evidence that Jane and Rochester marry as equals rather than as master and servant.
- 22nd June 1972Explain what equivocation means in the play and why it matters to the theme of appearance and reality.
- 23rd June 1972Define free indirect discourse and give one moment where Austen's use of it misleads the reader.
- 24th June 1972Which is more likely to create impact at the end of a tense paragraph: a long complex sentence or a short simple sentence?
- 25th June 1972Identify the relative pronoun in: 'The book, which was on the table, belonged to my sister.'
- 26th June 1972Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang.'
- 27th June 1972How many marks in Section B are for technical accuracy in spelling, punctuation and grammar?
- 28th June 1972Where does Victor first create and reject the Creature?
- 29th June 1972Name Jane's close friend at Lowood school, who dies of consumption/typhus.
- 30th June 1972Name three themes in Macbeth other than ambition, and give one moment in the play where each is most visible.