Daily Practice · GCSE
October 1996 - GCSE 5-a-day
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Every sheet in October 1996
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1996Combine into one complex sentence using a subordinating conjunction: 'The team trained hard. They wanted to win the final.'
- 2nd October 1996Explain why a writer might follow three long sentences with one very short sentence.
- 3rd October 1996In 'the lift doors had jammed half-open,' identify one language technique.
- 4th October 1996Identify the technique in Victor's description of the Alps: 'the immense mountains and precipices...the palaces of nature.'
- 5th October 1996Identify the technique in the description of Bertha Mason as a figure locked in the attic at Thornfield.
- 6th October 1996How does the natural world reflect the disorder Macbeth causes?
- 7th October 1996Why does Elizabeth refuse Mr Collins, and what does the refusal show?
- 8th October 1996True or false: using only long, complex sentences throughout a piece creates strong sentence variety.
- 9th October 1996Identify the subordinating conjunction in: 'She left early because she felt unwell.'
- 10th October 1996Rewrite 'The dog barked loudly.' starting with an -ing clause instead of the subject.
- 11th October 1996In Section B, name one way to vary your writing for effect.
- 12th October 1996Give one piece of evidence that Victor abandons responsibility for his creation.
- 13th October 1996Give one piece of evidence that Jane and Rochester marry as equals rather than as master and servant.
- 14th October 1996Why is the sleepwalking scene written in prose when Lady Macbeth speaks in verse elsewhere?
- 15th October 1996Explain what the entail is and why it drives the plot.
- 16th October 1996Which is more likely to create impact at the end of a tense paragraph: a long complex sentence or a short simple sentence?
- 17th October 1996Identify the relative pronoun in: 'The book, which was on the table, belonged to my sister.'
- 18th October 1996Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang.'
- 19th October 1996How many marks in Section B are for technical accuracy in spelling, punctuation and grammar?
- 20th October 1996Where does Victor first create and reject the Creature?
- 21st October 1996Name Jane's close friend at Lowood school, who dies of consumption/typhus.
- 22nd October 1996What is the effect of ending the play with Macbeth's severed head displayed on a pole?
- 23rd October 1996Why is the opening sentence ironic?
- 24th October 1996Explain in one sentence why a single-word sentence such as 'Gone.' can be effective.
- 25th October 1996Is 'When the bell rang' a main clause or a subordinate clause?
- 26th October 1996Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang, and the students filed out.'
- 27th October 1996What should the structure question track across the whole extract?
- 28th October 1996Who is wrongly executed for the murder of Victor's brother William?
- 29th October 1996Why does Jane leave Thornfield Hall on what should have been her wedding day?
- 30th October 1996Give one way to bring in context on witchcraft without simply reciting a fact.
- 31st October 1996Give one way the novel presents the limits placed on women.