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August 2012 - GCSE 5-a-day
Every GCSE sheet published in August 2012, with answers. GCSE - language techniques, structure, comparison and exam-style writing.
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Every sheet in August 2012
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- 1st August 2012Explain in one sentence why a single-word sentence such as 'Gone.' can be effective.
- 2nd August 2012Is 'When the bell rang' a main clause or a subordinate clause?
- 3rd August 2012Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang, and the students filed out.'
- 4th August 2012What should the structure question track across the whole extract?
- 5th August 2012Who is wrongly executed for the murder of Victor's brother William?
- 6th August 2012Why does Jane leave Thornfield Hall on what should have been her wedding day?
- 7th August 2012What is the effect of ending the play with Macbeth's severed head displayed on a pole?
- 8th August 2012Why is the opening sentence ironic?
- 9th August 2012Rewrite these two short sentences as one varied complex sentence: 'The rain fell. The streets flooded.'
- 10th August 2012Underline (state) the main clause: 'Because it was raining, the match was postponed.'
- 11th August 2012Rewrite 'It was raining. We stayed inside.' as one compound sentence.
- 12th August 2012How many sections does Paper 1 have?
- 13th August 2012True or false: Victor completes the female companion the Creature demands.
- 14th August 2012Who mistreats Jane at Gateshead Hall before she is sent away to school?
- 15th August 2012Give one way to bring in context on witchcraft without simply reciting a fact.
- 16th August 2012Give one way the novel presents the limits placed on women.
- 17th August 2012Identify the sentence opening technique used here: 'Slowly, the door creaked open.'
- 18th August 2012In 'The man who lives next door, although he is quiet, works nights,' how many subordinate clauses are there?
- 19th August 2012Identify the sentence type: 'Although the bell rang, nobody moved.'
- 20th August 2012What does the four-mark question at the start of Section A test?
- 21st August 2012Who is the recipient of the letters that frame the novel?
- 22nd August 2012True or false: Jane marries St John Rivers.
- 23rd August 2012Explain what equivocation means in the play and why it matters to the theme of appearance and reality.
- 24th August 2012Define free indirect discourse and give one moment where Austen's use of it misleads the reader.
- 25th August 2012Write a two-sentence pair, one long and one short, describing a sudden silence after a loud crash.
- 26th August 2012Combine into one complex sentence using a subordinating conjunction: 'The team trained hard. They wanted to win the final.'
- 27th August 2012Explain why a writer might follow three long sentences with one very short sentence.
- 28th August 2012In 'the lift doors had jammed half-open,' identify one language technique.
- 29th August 2012Identify the technique in Victor's description of the Alps: 'the immense mountains and precipices...the palaces of nature.'
- 30th August 2012Identify the technique in the description of Bertha Mason as a figure locked in the attic at Thornfield.
- 31st August 2012Name three themes in Macbeth other than ambition, and give one moment in the play where each is most visible.