Daily Practice · GCSE
March 1978 5-a-day
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Every sheet in March 1978
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- 1st March 1978Who is wrongly executed for the murder of Victor's brother William?
- 2nd March 1978Why does Jane leave Thornfield Hall on what should have been her wedding day?
- 3rd March 1978Name three themes in Macbeth other than ambition, and give one moment in the play where each is most visible.
- 4th March 1978How does Austen use Mr Collins for satire?
- 5th March 1978Rewrite these two short sentences as one varied complex sentence: 'The rain fell. The streets flooded.'
- 6th March 1978Underline (state) the main clause: 'Because it was raining, the match was postponed.'
- 7th March 1978Rewrite 'It was raining. We stayed inside.' as one compound sentence.
- 8th March 1978How many sections does Paper 1 have?
- 9th March 1978True or false: Victor completes the female companion the Creature demands.
- 10th March 1978Who mistreats Jane at Gateshead Hall before she is sent away to school?
- 11th March 1978Explain why a thematic essay should not be organised character by character.
- 12th March 1978What changes Elizabeth's view of Darcy, and in what order?
- 13th March 1978Identify the sentence opening technique used here: 'Slowly, the door creaked open.'
- 14th March 1978In 'The man who lives next door, although he is quiet, works nights,' how many subordinate clauses are there?
- 15th March 1978Identify the sentence type: 'Although the bell rang, nobody moved.'
- 16th March 1978What does the four-mark question at the start of Section A test?
- 17th March 1978Who is the recipient of the letters that frame the novel?
- 18th March 1978True or false: Jane marries St John Rivers.
- 19th March 1978How does the natural world reflect the disorder Macbeth causes?
- 20th March 1978Why does Elizabeth refuse Mr Collins, and what does the refusal show?
- 21st March 1978Write a two-sentence pair, one long and one short, describing a sudden silence after a loud crash.
- 22nd March 1978Combine into one complex sentence using a subordinating conjunction: 'The team trained hard. They wanted to win the final.'
- 23rd March 1978Explain why a writer might follow three long sentences with one very short sentence.
- 24th March 1978In 'the lift doors had jammed half-open,' identify one language technique.
- 25th March 1978Identify the technique in Victor's description of the Alps: 'the immense mountains and precipices...the palaces of nature.'
- 26th March 1978Identify the technique in the description of Bertha Mason as a figure locked in the attic at Thornfield.
- 27th March 1978Why is the sleepwalking scene written in prose when Lady Macbeth speaks in verse elsewhere?
- 28th March 1978Explain what the entail is and why it drives the plot.
- 29th March 1978True or false: using only long, complex sentences throughout a piece creates strong sentence variety.
- 30th March 1978Identify the subordinating conjunction in: 'She left early because she felt unwell.'
- 31st March 1978Rewrite 'The dog barked loudly.' starting with an -ing clause instead of the subject.