Daily Practice · GCSE
September 1981 5-a-day
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Every sheet in September 1981
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- 1st September 1981Give one piece of evidence that Victor abandons responsibility for his creation.
- 2nd September 1981Give one piece of evidence that Jane and Rochester marry as equals rather than as master and servant.
- 3rd September 1981Explain what equivocation means in the play and why it matters to the theme of appearance and reality.
- 4th September 1981Define free indirect discourse and give one moment where Austen's use of it misleads the reader.
- 5th September 1981Which is more likely to create impact at the end of a tense paragraph: a long complex sentence or a short simple sentence?
- 6th September 1981Identify the relative pronoun in: 'The book, which was on the table, belonged to my sister.'
- 7th September 1981Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang.'
- 8th September 1981How many marks in Section B are for technical accuracy in spelling, punctuation and grammar?
- 9th September 1981Where does Victor first create and reject the Creature?
- 10th September 1981Name Jane's close friend at Lowood school, who dies of consumption/typhus.
- 11th September 1981Name three themes in Macbeth other than ambition, and give one moment in the play where each is most visible.
- 12th September 1981How does Austen use Mr Collins for satire?
- 13th September 1981Explain in one sentence why a single-word sentence such as 'Gone.' can be effective.
- 14th September 1981Is 'When the bell rang' a main clause or a subordinate clause?
- 15th September 1981Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang, and the students filed out.'
- 16th September 1981What should the structure question track across the whole extract?
- 17th September 1981Who is wrongly executed for the murder of Victor's brother William?
- 18th September 1981Why does Jane leave Thornfield Hall on what should have been her wedding day?
- 19th September 1981Explain why a thematic essay should not be organised character by character.
- 20th September 1981What changes Elizabeth's view of Darcy, and in what order?
- 21st September 1981Rewrite these two short sentences as one varied complex sentence: 'The rain fell. The streets flooded.'
- 22nd September 1981Underline (state) the main clause: 'Because it was raining, the match was postponed.'
- 23rd September 1981Rewrite 'It was raining. We stayed inside.' as one compound sentence.
- 24th September 1981How many sections does Paper 1 have?
- 25th September 1981True or false: Victor completes the female companion the Creature demands.
- 26th September 1981Who mistreats Jane at Gateshead Hall before she is sent away to school?
- 27th September 1981How does the natural world reflect the disorder Macbeth causes?
- 28th September 1981Why does Elizabeth refuse Mr Collins, and what does the refusal show?
- 29th September 1981Identify the sentence opening technique used here: 'Slowly, the door creaked open.'
- 30th September 1981In 'The man who lives next door, although he is quiet, works nights,' how many subordinate clauses are there?