Daily Practice · GCSE
November 1996 - GCSE 5-a-day
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Every sheet in November 1996
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 1996Rewrite these two short sentences as one varied complex sentence: 'The rain fell. The streets flooded.'
- 2nd November 1996Underline (state) the main clause: 'Because it was raining, the match was postponed.'
- 3rd November 1996Rewrite 'It was raining. We stayed inside.' as one compound sentence.
- 4th November 1996How many sections does Paper 1 have?
- 5th November 1996True or false: Victor completes the female companion the Creature demands.
- 6th November 1996Who mistreats Jane at Gateshead Hall before she is sent away to school?
- 7th November 1996Explain what equivocation means in the play and why it matters to the theme of appearance and reality.
- 8th November 1996Define free indirect discourse and give one moment where Austen's use of it misleads the reader.
- 9th November 1996Identify the sentence opening technique used here: 'Slowly, the door creaked open.'
- 10th November 1996In 'The man who lives next door, although he is quiet, works nights,' how many subordinate clauses are there?
- 11th November 1996Identify the sentence type: 'Although the bell rang, nobody moved.'
- 12th November 1996What does the four-mark question at the start of Section A test?
- 13th November 1996Who is the recipient of the letters that frame the novel?
- 14th November 1996True or false: Jane marries St John Rivers.
- 15th November 1996Name three themes in Macbeth other than ambition, and give one moment in the play where each is most visible.
- 16th November 1996How does Austen use Mr Collins for satire?
- 17th November 1996Write a two-sentence pair, one long and one short, describing a sudden silence after a loud crash.
- 18th November 1996Combine into one complex sentence using a subordinating conjunction: 'The team trained hard. They wanted to win the final.'
- 19th November 1996Explain why a writer might follow three long sentences with one very short sentence.
- 20th November 1996In 'the lift doors had jammed half-open,' identify one language technique.
- 21st November 1996Identify the technique in Victor's description of the Alps: 'the immense mountains and precipices...the palaces of nature.'
- 22nd November 1996Identify the technique in the description of Bertha Mason as a figure locked in the attic at Thornfield.
- 23rd November 1996Explain why a thematic essay should not be organised character by character.
- 24th November 1996What changes Elizabeth's view of Darcy, and in what order?
- 25th November 1996True or false: using only long, complex sentences throughout a piece creates strong sentence variety.
- 26th November 1996Identify the subordinating conjunction in: 'She left early because she felt unwell.'
- 27th November 1996Rewrite 'The dog barked loudly.' starting with an -ing clause instead of the subject.
- 28th November 1996In Section B, name one way to vary your writing for effect.
- 29th November 1996Give one piece of evidence that Victor abandons responsibility for his creation.
- 30th November 1996Give one piece of evidence that Jane and Rochester marry as equals rather than as master and servant.