Daily Practice · GCSE
December 2016 - GCSE 5-a-day
Every GCSE sheet published in December 2016, with answers. GCSE - language techniques, structure, comparison and exam-style writing.
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Every sheet in December 2016
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2016Give one way the novel presents the limits placed on women.
- 2nd December 2016Explain in one sentence why a single-word sentence such as 'Gone.' can be effective.
- 3rd December 2016Is 'When the bell rang' a main clause or a subordinate clause?
- 4th December 2016Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang, and the students filed out.'
- 5th December 2016What should the structure question track across the whole extract?
- 6th December 2016Who is wrongly executed for the murder of Victor's brother William?
- 7th December 2016Why does Jane leave Thornfield Hall on what should have been her wedding day?
- 8th December 2016Explain what equivocation means in the play and why it matters to the theme of appearance and reality.
- 9th December 2016Define free indirect discourse and give one moment where Austen's use of it misleads the reader.
- 10th December 2016Rewrite these two short sentences as one varied complex sentence: 'The rain fell. The streets flooded.'
- 11th December 2016Underline (state) the main clause: 'Because it was raining, the match was postponed.'
- 12th December 2016Rewrite 'It was raining. We stayed inside.' as one compound sentence.
- 13th December 2016How many sections does Paper 1 have?
- 14th December 2016True or false: Victor completes the female companion the Creature demands.
- 15th December 2016Who mistreats Jane at Gateshead Hall before she is sent away to school?
- 16th December 2016Name three themes in Macbeth other than ambition, and give one moment in the play where each is most visible.
- 17th December 2016How does Austen use Mr Collins for satire?
- 18th December 2016Identify the sentence opening technique used here: 'Slowly, the door creaked open.'
- 19th December 2016In 'The man who lives next door, although he is quiet, works nights,' how many subordinate clauses are there?
- 20th December 2016Identify the sentence type: 'Although the bell rang, nobody moved.'
- 21st December 2016What does the four-mark question at the start of Section A test?
- 22nd December 2016Who is the recipient of the letters that frame the novel?
- 23rd December 2016True or false: Jane marries St John Rivers.
- 24th December 2016Explain why a thematic essay should not be organised character by character.
- 25th December 2016What changes Elizabeth's view of Darcy, and in what order?
- 26th December 2016Write a two-sentence pair, one long and one short, describing a sudden silence after a loud crash.
- 27th December 2016Combine into one complex sentence using a subordinating conjunction: 'The team trained hard. They wanted to win the final.'
- 28th December 2016Explain why a writer might follow three long sentences with one very short sentence.
- 29th December 2016In 'the lift doors had jammed half-open,' identify one language technique.
- 30th December 2016Identify the technique in Victor's description of the Alps: 'the immense mountains and precipices...the palaces of nature.'
- 31st December 2016Identify the technique in the description of Bertha Mason as a figure locked in the attic at Thornfield.