Daily Practice · GCSE
March 2011 - GCSE 5-a-day
Every GCSE sheet published in March 2011, with answers. GCSE - language techniques, structure, comparison and exam-style writing.
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Every sheet in March 2011
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 2011Underline (state) the main clause: 'Because it was raining, the match was postponed.'
- 2nd March 2011Rewrite 'It was raining. We stayed inside.' as one compound sentence.
- 3rd March 2011How many sections does Paper 1 have?
- 4th March 2011True or false: Victor completes the female companion the Creature demands.
- 5th March 2011Who mistreats Jane at Gateshead Hall before she is sent away to school?
- 6th March 2011How does the natural world reflect the disorder Macbeth causes?
- 7th March 2011Why does Elizabeth refuse Mr Collins, and what does the refusal show?
- 8th March 2011Identify the sentence opening technique used here: 'Slowly, the door creaked open.'
- 9th March 2011In 'The man who lives next door, although he is quiet, works nights,' how many subordinate clauses are there?
- 10th March 2011Identify the sentence type: 'Although the bell rang, nobody moved.'
- 11th March 2011What does the four-mark question at the start of Section A test?
- 12th March 2011Who is the recipient of the letters that frame the novel?
- 13th March 2011True or false: Jane marries St John Rivers.
- 14th March 2011Why is the sleepwalking scene written in prose when Lady Macbeth speaks in verse elsewhere?
- 15th March 2011Explain what the entail is and why it drives the plot.
- 16th March 2011Write a two-sentence pair, one long and one short, describing a sudden silence after a loud crash.
- 17th March 2011Combine into one complex sentence using a subordinating conjunction: 'The team trained hard. They wanted to win the final.'
- 18th March 2011Explain why a writer might follow three long sentences with one very short sentence.
- 19th March 2011In 'the lift doors had jammed half-open,' identify one language technique.
- 20th March 2011Identify the technique in Victor's description of the Alps: 'the immense mountains and precipices...the palaces of nature.'
- 21st March 2011Identify the technique in the description of Bertha Mason as a figure locked in the attic at Thornfield.
- 22nd March 2011What is the effect of ending the play with Macbeth's severed head displayed on a pole?
- 23rd March 2011Why is the opening sentence ironic?
- 24th March 2011True or false: using only long, complex sentences throughout a piece creates strong sentence variety.
- 25th March 2011Identify the subordinating conjunction in: 'She left early because she felt unwell.'
- 26th March 2011Rewrite 'The dog barked loudly.' starting with an -ing clause instead of the subject.
- 27th March 2011In Section B, name one way to vary your writing for effect.
- 28th March 2011Give one piece of evidence that Victor abandons responsibility for his creation.
- 29th March 2011Give one piece of evidence that Jane and Rochester marry as equals rather than as master and servant.
- 30th March 2011Give one way to bring in context on witchcraft without simply reciting a fact.
- 31st March 2011Give one way the novel presents the limits placed on women.