Daily Practice · GCSE
November 2009 - GCSE 5-a-day
Every GCSE sheet published in November 2009, with answers. GCSE - language techniques, structure, comparison and exam-style writing.
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Every sheet in November 2009
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 2009Who is wrongly executed for the murder of Victor's brother William?
- 2nd November 2009Why does Jane leave Thornfield Hall on what should have been her wedding day?
- 3rd November 2009What is the effect of ending the play with Macbeth's severed head displayed on a pole?
- 4th November 2009Why is the opening sentence ironic?
- 5th November 2009Rewrite these two short sentences as one varied complex sentence: 'The rain fell. The streets flooded.'
- 6th November 2009Underline (state) the main clause: 'Because it was raining, the match was postponed.'
- 7th November 2009Rewrite 'It was raining. We stayed inside.' as one compound sentence.
- 8th November 2009How many sections does Paper 1 have?
- 9th November 2009True or false: Victor completes the female companion the Creature demands.
- 10th November 2009Who mistreats Jane at Gateshead Hall before she is sent away to school?
- 11th November 2009Give one way to bring in context on witchcraft without simply reciting a fact.
- 12th November 2009Give one way the novel presents the limits placed on women.
- 13th November 2009Identify the sentence opening technique used here: 'Slowly, the door creaked open.'
- 14th November 2009In 'The man who lives next door, although he is quiet, works nights,' how many subordinate clauses are there?
- 15th November 2009Identify the sentence type: 'Although the bell rang, nobody moved.'
- 16th November 2009What does the four-mark question at the start of Section A test?
- 17th November 2009Who is the recipient of the letters that frame the novel?
- 18th November 2009True or false: Jane marries St John Rivers.
- 19th November 2009Explain what equivocation means in the play and why it matters to the theme of appearance and reality.
- 20th November 2009Define free indirect discourse and give one moment where Austen's use of it misleads the reader.
- 21st November 2009Write a two-sentence pair, one long and one short, describing a sudden silence after a loud crash.
- 22nd November 2009Combine into one complex sentence using a subordinating conjunction: 'The team trained hard. They wanted to win the final.'
- 23rd November 2009Explain why a writer might follow three long sentences with one very short sentence.
- 24th November 2009In 'the lift doors had jammed half-open,' identify one language technique.
- 25th November 2009Identify the technique in Victor's description of the Alps: 'the immense mountains and precipices...the palaces of nature.'
- 26th November 2009Identify the technique in the description of Bertha Mason as a figure locked in the attic at Thornfield.
- 27th November 2009Name three themes in Macbeth other than ambition, and give one moment in the play where each is most visible.
- 28th November 2009How does Austen use Mr Collins for satire?
- 29th November 2009True or false: using only long, complex sentences throughout a piece creates strong sentence variety.
- 30th November 2009Identify the subordinating conjunction in: 'She left early because she felt unwell.'