Daily Practice · GCSE
November 1979 5-a-day
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- 1st November 1979Explain what equivocation means in the play and why it matters to the theme of appearance and reality.
- 2nd November 1979Define free indirect discourse and give one moment where Austen's use of it misleads the reader.
- 3rd November 1979Which is more likely to create impact at the end of a tense paragraph: a long complex sentence or a short simple sentence?
- 4th November 1979Identify the relative pronoun in: 'The book, which was on the table, belonged to my sister.'
- 5th November 1979Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang.'
- 6th November 1979How many marks in Section B are for technical accuracy in spelling, punctuation and grammar?
- 7th November 1979Where does Victor first create and reject the Creature?
- 8th November 1979Name Jane's close friend at Lowood school, who dies of consumption/typhus.
- 9th November 1979Name three themes in Macbeth other than ambition, and give one moment in the play where each is most visible.
- 10th November 1979How does Austen use Mr Collins for satire?
- 11th November 1979Explain in one sentence why a single-word sentence such as 'Gone.' can be effective.
- 12th November 1979Is 'When the bell rang' a main clause or a subordinate clause?
- 13th November 1979Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang, and the students filed out.'
- 14th November 1979What should the structure question track across the whole extract?
- 15th November 1979Who is wrongly executed for the murder of Victor's brother William?
- 16th November 1979Why does Jane leave Thornfield Hall on what should have been her wedding day?
- 17th November 1979Explain why a thematic essay should not be organised character by character.
- 18th November 1979What changes Elizabeth's view of Darcy, and in what order?
- 19th November 1979Rewrite these two short sentences as one varied complex sentence: 'The rain fell. The streets flooded.'
- 20th November 1979Underline (state) the main clause: 'Because it was raining, the match was postponed.'
- 21st November 1979Rewrite 'It was raining. We stayed inside.' as one compound sentence.
- 22nd November 1979How many sections does Paper 1 have?
- 23rd November 1979True or false: Victor completes the female companion the Creature demands.
- 24th November 1979Who mistreats Jane at Gateshead Hall before she is sent away to school?
- 25th November 1979How does the natural world reflect the disorder Macbeth causes?
- 26th November 1979Why does Elizabeth refuse Mr Collins, and what does the refusal show?
- 27th November 1979Identify the sentence opening technique used here: 'Slowly, the door creaked open.'
- 28th November 1979In 'The man who lives next door, although he is quiet, works nights,' how many subordinate clauses are there?
- 29th November 1979Identify the sentence type: 'Although the bell rang, nobody moved.'
- 30th November 1979What does the four-mark question at the start of Section A test?