Daily Practice · GCSE
August 1988 5-a-day
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Every sheet in August 1988
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1988Identify the sentence type: 'Although the bell rang, nobody moved.'
- 2nd August 1988What does the four-mark question at the start of Section A test?
- 3rd August 1988Who is the recipient of the letters that frame the novel?
- 4th August 1988True or false: Jane marries St John Rivers.
- 5th August 1988Name three themes in Macbeth other than ambition, and give one moment in the play where each is most visible.
- 6th August 1988How does Austen use Mr Collins for satire?
- 7th August 1988Write a two-sentence pair, one long and one short, describing a sudden silence after a loud crash.
- 8th August 1988Combine into one complex sentence using a subordinating conjunction: 'The team trained hard. They wanted to win the final.'
- 9th August 1988Explain why a writer might follow three long sentences with one very short sentence.
- 10th August 1988In 'the lift doors had jammed half-open,' identify one language technique.
- 11th August 1988Identify the technique in Victor's description of the Alps: 'the immense mountains and precipices...the palaces of nature.'
- 12th August 1988Identify the technique in the description of Bertha Mason as a figure locked in the attic at Thornfield.
- 13th August 1988Explain why a thematic essay should not be organised character by character.
- 14th August 1988What changes Elizabeth's view of Darcy, and in what order?
- 15th August 1988True or false: using only long, complex sentences throughout a piece creates strong sentence variety.
- 16th August 1988Identify the subordinating conjunction in: 'She left early because she felt unwell.'
- 17th August 1988Rewrite 'The dog barked loudly.' starting with an -ing clause instead of the subject.
- 18th August 1988In Section B, name one way to vary your writing for effect.
- 19th August 1988Give one piece of evidence that Victor abandons responsibility for his creation.
- 20th August 1988Give one piece of evidence that Jane and Rochester marry as equals rather than as master and servant.
- 21st August 1988How does the natural world reflect the disorder Macbeth causes?
- 22nd August 1988Why does Elizabeth refuse Mr Collins, and what does the refusal show?
- 23rd August 1988Which is more likely to create impact at the end of a tense paragraph: a long complex sentence or a short simple sentence?
- 24th August 1988Identify the relative pronoun in: 'The book, which was on the table, belonged to my sister.'
- 25th August 1988Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang.'
- 26th August 1988How many marks in Section B are for technical accuracy in spelling, punctuation and grammar?
- 27th August 1988Where does Victor first create and reject the Creature?
- 28th August 1988Name Jane's close friend at Lowood school, who dies of consumption/typhus.
- 29th August 1988Why is the sleepwalking scene written in prose when Lady Macbeth speaks in verse elsewhere?
- 30th August 1988Explain what the entail is and why it drives the plot.
- 31st August 1988Explain in one sentence why a single-word sentence such as 'Gone.' can be effective.