Daily Practice · GCSE
June 2016 - GCSE 5-a-day
Every GCSE sheet published in June 2016, with answers. GCSE - language techniques, structure, comparison and exam-style writing.
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Every sheet in June 2016
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st June 2016Rewrite these two short sentences as one varied complex sentence: 'The rain fell. The streets flooded.'
- 2nd June 2016Underline (state) the main clause: 'Because it was raining, the match was postponed.'
- 3rd June 2016Rewrite 'It was raining. We stayed inside.' as one compound sentence.
- 4th June 2016How many sections does Paper 1 have?
- 5th June 2016True or false: Victor completes the female companion the Creature demands.
- 6th June 2016Who mistreats Jane at Gateshead Hall before she is sent away to school?
- 7th June 2016What is the effect of ending the play with Macbeth's severed head displayed on a pole?
- 8th June 2016Why is the opening sentence ironic?
- 9th June 2016Identify the sentence opening technique used here: 'Slowly, the door creaked open.'
- 10th June 2016In 'The man who lives next door, although he is quiet, works nights,' how many subordinate clauses are there?
- 11th June 2016Identify the sentence type: 'Although the bell rang, nobody moved.'
- 12th June 2016What does the four-mark question at the start of Section A test?
- 13th June 2016Who is the recipient of the letters that frame the novel?
- 14th June 2016True or false: Jane marries St John Rivers.
- 15th June 2016Give one way to bring in context on witchcraft without simply reciting a fact.
- 16th June 2016Give one way the novel presents the limits placed on women.
- 17th June 2016Write a two-sentence pair, one long and one short, describing a sudden silence after a loud crash.
- 18th June 2016Combine into one complex sentence using a subordinating conjunction: 'The team trained hard. They wanted to win the final.'
- 19th June 2016Explain why a writer might follow three long sentences with one very short sentence.
- 20th June 2016In 'the lift doors had jammed half-open,' identify one language technique.
- 21st June 2016Identify the technique in Victor's description of the Alps: 'the immense mountains and precipices...the palaces of nature.'
- 22nd June 2016Identify the technique in the description of Bertha Mason as a figure locked in the attic at Thornfield.
- 23rd June 2016Explain what equivocation means in the play and why it matters to the theme of appearance and reality.
- 24th June 2016Define free indirect discourse and give one moment where Austen's use of it misleads the reader.
- 25th June 2016True or false: using only long, complex sentences throughout a piece creates strong sentence variety.
- 26th June 2016Identify the subordinating conjunction in: 'She left early because she felt unwell.'
- 27th June 2016Rewrite 'The dog barked loudly.' starting with an -ing clause instead of the subject.
- 28th June 2016In Section B, name one way to vary your writing for effect.
- 29th June 2016Give one piece of evidence that Victor abandons responsibility for his creation.
- 30th June 2016Give one piece of evidence that Jane and Rochester marry as equals rather than as master and servant.