Daily Practice · GCSE
December 1982 5-a-day
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Every sheet in December 1982
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1982True or false: Victor completes the female companion the Creature demands.
- 2nd December 1982Who mistreats Jane at Gateshead Hall before she is sent away to school?
- 3rd December 1982Name three themes in Macbeth other than ambition, and give one moment in the play where each is most visible.
- 4th December 1982How does Austen use Mr Collins for satire?
- 5th December 1982Identify the sentence opening technique used here: 'Slowly, the door creaked open.'
- 6th December 1982In 'The man who lives next door, although he is quiet, works nights,' how many subordinate clauses are there?
- 7th December 1982Identify the sentence type: 'Although the bell rang, nobody moved.'
- 8th December 1982What does the four-mark question at the start of Section A test?
- 9th December 1982Who is the recipient of the letters that frame the novel?
- 10th December 1982True or false: Jane marries St John Rivers.
- 11th December 1982Explain why a thematic essay should not be organised character by character.
- 12th December 1982What changes Elizabeth's view of Darcy, and in what order?
- 13th December 1982Write a two-sentence pair, one long and one short, describing a sudden silence after a loud crash.
- 14th December 1982Combine into one complex sentence using a subordinating conjunction: 'The team trained hard. They wanted to win the final.'
- 15th December 1982Explain why a writer might follow three long sentences with one very short sentence.
- 16th December 1982In 'the lift doors had jammed half-open,' identify one language technique.
- 17th December 1982Identify the technique in Victor's description of the Alps: 'the immense mountains and precipices...the palaces of nature.'
- 18th December 1982Identify the technique in the description of Bertha Mason as a figure locked in the attic at Thornfield.
- 19th December 1982How does the natural world reflect the disorder Macbeth causes?
- 20th December 1982Why does Elizabeth refuse Mr Collins, and what does the refusal show?
- 21st December 1982True or false: using only long, complex sentences throughout a piece creates strong sentence variety.
- 22nd December 1982Identify the subordinating conjunction in: 'She left early because she felt unwell.'
- 23rd December 1982Rewrite 'The dog barked loudly.' starting with an -ing clause instead of the subject.
- 24th December 1982In Section B, name one way to vary your writing for effect.
- 25th December 1982Give one piece of evidence that Victor abandons responsibility for his creation.
- 26th December 1982Give one piece of evidence that Jane and Rochester marry as equals rather than as master and servant.
- 27th December 1982Why is the sleepwalking scene written in prose when Lady Macbeth speaks in verse elsewhere?
- 28th December 1982Explain what the entail is and why it drives the plot.
- 29th December 1982Which is more likely to create impact at the end of a tense paragraph: a long complex sentence or a short simple sentence?
- 30th December 1982Identify the relative pronoun in: 'The book, which was on the table, belonged to my sister.'
- 31st December 1982Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang.'