Daily Practice · GCSE
October 1981 5-a-day
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Every sheet in October 1981
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1981Identify the sentence type: 'Although the bell rang, nobody moved.'
- 2nd October 1981What does the four-mark question at the start of Section A test?
- 3rd October 1981Who is the recipient of the letters that frame the novel?
- 4th October 1981True or false: Jane marries St John Rivers.
- 5th October 1981Why is the sleepwalking scene written in prose when Lady Macbeth speaks in verse elsewhere?
- 6th October 1981Explain what the entail is and why it drives the plot.
- 7th October 1981Write a two-sentence pair, one long and one short, describing a sudden silence after a loud crash.
- 8th October 1981Combine into one complex sentence using a subordinating conjunction: 'The team trained hard. They wanted to win the final.'
- 9th October 1981Explain why a writer might follow three long sentences with one very short sentence.
- 10th October 1981In 'the lift doors had jammed half-open,' identify one language technique.
- 11th October 1981Identify the technique in Victor's description of the Alps: 'the immense mountains and precipices...the palaces of nature.'
- 12th October 1981Identify the technique in the description of Bertha Mason as a figure locked in the attic at Thornfield.
- 13th October 1981What is the effect of ending the play with Macbeth's severed head displayed on a pole?
- 14th October 1981Why is the opening sentence ironic?
- 15th October 1981True or false: using only long, complex sentences throughout a piece creates strong sentence variety.
- 16th October 1981Identify the subordinating conjunction in: 'She left early because she felt unwell.'
- 17th October 1981Rewrite 'The dog barked loudly.' starting with an -ing clause instead of the subject.
- 18th October 1981In Section B, name one way to vary your writing for effect.
- 19th October 1981Give one piece of evidence that Victor abandons responsibility for his creation.
- 20th October 1981Give one piece of evidence that Jane and Rochester marry as equals rather than as master and servant.
- 21st October 1981Give one way to bring in context on witchcraft without simply reciting a fact.
- 22nd October 1981Give one way the novel presents the limits placed on women.
- 23rd October 1981Which is more likely to create impact at the end of a tense paragraph: a long complex sentence or a short simple sentence?
- 24th October 1981Identify the relative pronoun in: 'The book, which was on the table, belonged to my sister.'
- 25th October 1981Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang.'
- 26th October 1981How many marks in Section B are for technical accuracy in spelling, punctuation and grammar?
- 27th October 1981Where does Victor first create and reject the Creature?
- 28th October 1981Name Jane's close friend at Lowood school, who dies of consumption/typhus.
- 29th October 1981Explain what equivocation means in the play and why it matters to the theme of appearance and reality.
- 30th October 1981Define free indirect discourse and give one moment where Austen's use of it misleads the reader.
- 31st October 1981Explain in one sentence why a single-word sentence such as 'Gone.' can be effective.