Daily Practice · GCSE
May 1984 5-a-day
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Every sheet in May 1984
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 1984Is 'When the bell rang' a main clause or a subordinate clause?
- 2nd May 1984Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang, and the students filed out.'
- 3rd May 1984What should the structure question track across the whole extract?
- 4th May 1984Who is wrongly executed for the murder of Victor's brother William?
- 5th May 1984Why does Jane leave Thornfield Hall on what should have been her wedding day?
- 6th May 1984How does the natural world reflect the disorder Macbeth causes?
- 7th May 1984Why does Elizabeth refuse Mr Collins, and what does the refusal show?
- 8th May 1984Rewrite these two short sentences as one varied complex sentence: 'The rain fell. The streets flooded.'
- 9th May 1984Underline (state) the main clause: 'Because it was raining, the match was postponed.'
- 10th May 1984Rewrite 'It was raining. We stayed inside.' as one compound sentence.
- 11th May 1984How many sections does Paper 1 have?
- 12th May 1984True or false: Victor completes the female companion the Creature demands.
- 13th May 1984Who mistreats Jane at Gateshead Hall before she is sent away to school?
- 14th May 1984Why is the sleepwalking scene written in prose when Lady Macbeth speaks in verse elsewhere?
- 15th May 1984Explain what the entail is and why it drives the plot.
- 16th May 1984Identify the sentence opening technique used here: 'Slowly, the door creaked open.'
- 17th May 1984In 'The man who lives next door, although he is quiet, works nights,' how many subordinate clauses are there?
- 18th May 1984Identify the sentence type: 'Although the bell rang, nobody moved.'
- 19th May 1984What does the four-mark question at the start of Section A test?
- 20th May 1984Who is the recipient of the letters that frame the novel?
- 21st May 1984True or false: Jane marries St John Rivers.
- 22nd May 1984What is the effect of ending the play with Macbeth's severed head displayed on a pole?
- 23rd May 1984Why is the opening sentence ironic?
- 24th May 1984Write a two-sentence pair, one long and one short, describing a sudden silence after a loud crash.
- 25th May 1984Combine into one complex sentence using a subordinating conjunction: 'The team trained hard. They wanted to win the final.'
- 26th May 1984Explain why a writer might follow three long sentences with one very short sentence.
- 27th May 1984In 'the lift doors had jammed half-open,' identify one language technique.
- 28th May 1984Identify the technique in Victor's description of the Alps: 'the immense mountains and precipices...the palaces of nature.'
- 29th May 1984Identify the technique in the description of Bertha Mason as a figure locked in the attic at Thornfield.
- 30th May 1984Give one way to bring in context on witchcraft without simply reciting a fact.
- 31st May 1984Give one way the novel presents the limits placed on women.