Daily Practice · GCSE
October 1975 5-a-day
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Every sheet in October 1975
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1975Rewrite 'The dog barked loudly.' starting with an -ing clause instead of the subject.
- 2nd October 1975In Section B, name one way to vary your writing for effect.
- 3rd October 1975Give one piece of evidence that Victor abandons responsibility for his creation.
- 4th October 1975Give one piece of evidence that Jane and Rochester marry as equals rather than as master and servant.
- 5th October 1975How does the natural world reflect the disorder Macbeth causes?
- 6th October 1975Why does Elizabeth refuse Mr Collins, and what does the refusal show?
- 7th October 1975Which is more likely to create impact at the end of a tense paragraph: a long complex sentence or a short simple sentence?
- 8th October 1975Identify the relative pronoun in: 'The book, which was on the table, belonged to my sister.'
- 9th October 1975Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang.'
- 10th October 1975How many marks in Section B are for technical accuracy in spelling, punctuation and grammar?
- 11th October 1975Where does Victor first create and reject the Creature?
- 12th October 1975Name Jane's close friend at Lowood school, who dies of consumption/typhus.
- 13th October 1975Why is the sleepwalking scene written in prose when Lady Macbeth speaks in verse elsewhere?
- 14th October 1975Explain what the entail is and why it drives the plot.
- 15th October 1975Explain in one sentence why a single-word sentence such as 'Gone.' can be effective.
- 16th October 1975Is 'When the bell rang' a main clause or a subordinate clause?
- 17th October 1975Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang, and the students filed out.'
- 18th October 1975What should the structure question track across the whole extract?
- 19th October 1975Who is wrongly executed for the murder of Victor's brother William?
- 20th October 1975Why does Jane leave Thornfield Hall on what should have been her wedding day?
- 21st October 1975What is the effect of ending the play with Macbeth's severed head displayed on a pole?
- 22nd October 1975Why is the opening sentence ironic?
- 23rd October 1975Rewrite these two short sentences as one varied complex sentence: 'The rain fell. The streets flooded.'
- 24th October 1975Underline (state) the main clause: 'Because it was raining, the match was postponed.'
- 25th October 1975Rewrite 'It was raining. We stayed inside.' as one compound sentence.
- 26th October 1975How many sections does Paper 1 have?
- 27th October 1975True or false: Victor completes the female companion the Creature demands.
- 28th October 1975Who mistreats Jane at Gateshead Hall before she is sent away to school?
- 29th October 1975Give one way to bring in context on witchcraft without simply reciting a fact.
- 30th October 1975Give one way the novel presents the limits placed on women.
- 31st October 1975Identify the sentence opening technique used here: 'Slowly, the door creaked open.'