Daily Practice · GCSE
May 1985 5-a-day
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- 1st May 1985Give one way to bring in context on witchcraft without simply reciting a fact.
- 2nd May 1985Give one way the novel presents the limits placed on women.
- 3rd May 1985True or false: using only long, complex sentences throughout a piece creates strong sentence variety.
- 4th May 1985Identify the subordinating conjunction in: 'She left early because she felt unwell.'
- 5th May 1985Rewrite 'The dog barked loudly.' starting with an -ing clause instead of the subject.
- 6th May 1985In Section B, name one way to vary your writing for effect.
- 7th May 1985Give one piece of evidence that Victor abandons responsibility for his creation.
- 8th May 1985Give one piece of evidence that Jane and Rochester marry as equals rather than as master and servant.
- 9th May 1985Explain what equivocation means in the play and why it matters to the theme of appearance and reality.
- 10th May 1985Define free indirect discourse and give one moment where Austen's use of it misleads the reader.
- 11th May 1985Which is more likely to create impact at the end of a tense paragraph: a long complex sentence or a short simple sentence?
- 12th May 1985Identify the relative pronoun in: 'The book, which was on the table, belonged to my sister.'
- 13th May 1985Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang.'
- 14th May 1985How many marks in Section B are for technical accuracy in spelling, punctuation and grammar?
- 15th May 1985Where does Victor first create and reject the Creature?
- 16th May 1985Name Jane's close friend at Lowood school, who dies of consumption/typhus.
- 17th May 1985Name three themes in Macbeth other than ambition, and give one moment in the play where each is most visible.
- 18th May 1985How does Austen use Mr Collins for satire?
- 19th May 1985Explain in one sentence why a single-word sentence such as 'Gone.' can be effective.
- 20th May 1985Is 'When the bell rang' a main clause or a subordinate clause?
- 21st May 1985Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang, and the students filed out.'
- 22nd May 1985What should the structure question track across the whole extract?
- 23rd May 1985Who is wrongly executed for the murder of Victor's brother William?
- 24th May 1985Why does Jane leave Thornfield Hall on what should have been her wedding day?
- 25th May 1985Explain why a thematic essay should not be organised character by character.
- 26th May 1985What changes Elizabeth's view of Darcy, and in what order?
- 27th May 1985Rewrite these two short sentences as one varied complex sentence: 'The rain fell. The streets flooded.'
- 28th May 1985Underline (state) the main clause: 'Because it was raining, the match was postponed.'
- 29th May 1985Rewrite 'It was raining. We stayed inside.' as one compound sentence.
- 30th May 1985How many sections does Paper 1 have?
- 31st May 1985True or false: Victor completes the female companion the Creature demands.