Daily Practice · GCSE
October 1987 5-a-day
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Every sheet in October 1987
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1987Is 'When the bell rang' a main clause or a subordinate clause?
- 2nd October 1987Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang, and the students filed out.'
- 3rd October 1987What should the structure question track across the whole extract?
- 4th October 1987Who is wrongly executed for the murder of Victor's brother William?
- 5th October 1987Why does Jane leave Thornfield Hall on what should have been her wedding day?
- 6th October 1987What is the effect of ending the play with Macbeth's severed head displayed on a pole?
- 7th October 1987Why is the opening sentence ironic?
- 8th October 1987Rewrite these two short sentences as one varied complex sentence: 'The rain fell. The streets flooded.'
- 9th October 1987Underline (state) the main clause: 'Because it was raining, the match was postponed.'
- 10th October 1987Rewrite 'It was raining. We stayed inside.' as one compound sentence.
- 11th October 1987How many sections does Paper 1 have?
- 12th October 1987True or false: Victor completes the female companion the Creature demands.
- 13th October 1987Who mistreats Jane at Gateshead Hall before she is sent away to school?
- 14th October 1987Give one way to bring in context on witchcraft without simply reciting a fact.
- 15th October 1987Give one way the novel presents the limits placed on women.
- 16th October 1987Identify the sentence opening technique used here: 'Slowly, the door creaked open.'
- 17th October 1987In 'The man who lives next door, although he is quiet, works nights,' how many subordinate clauses are there?
- 18th October 1987Identify the sentence type: 'Although the bell rang, nobody moved.'
- 19th October 1987What does the four-mark question at the start of Section A test?
- 20th October 1987Who is the recipient of the letters that frame the novel?
- 21st October 1987True or false: Jane marries St John Rivers.
- 22nd October 1987Explain what equivocation means in the play and why it matters to the theme of appearance and reality.
- 23rd October 1987Define free indirect discourse and give one moment where Austen's use of it misleads the reader.
- 24th October 1987Write a two-sentence pair, one long and one short, describing a sudden silence after a loud crash.
- 25th October 1987Combine into one complex sentence using a subordinating conjunction: 'The team trained hard. They wanted to win the final.'
- 26th October 1987Explain why a writer might follow three long sentences with one very short sentence.
- 27th October 1987In 'the lift doors had jammed half-open,' identify one language technique.
- 28th October 1987Identify the technique in Victor's description of the Alps: 'the immense mountains and precipices...the palaces of nature.'
- 29th October 1987Identify the technique in the description of Bertha Mason as a figure locked in the attic at Thornfield.
- 30th October 1987Name three themes in Macbeth other than ambition, and give one moment in the play where each is most visible.
- 31st October 1987How does Austen use Mr Collins for satire?