Daily Practice · Key Stage 2
May 1981 5-a-day
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Every sheet in May 1981
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 1981Is this sentence active or passive? 'The letter was posted yesterday.'
- 2nd May 1981Rewrite as a properly introduced bulleted list: 'Ingredients milk eggs flour'
- 3rd May 1981Find and copy one word from this sentence that shows the character was moving quietly: 'Leo crept across the attic floor.'
- 4th May 1981Identify the main clause: 'If you practise every day, you will improve quickly.'
- 5th May 1981Replace 'nice' with a more interesting synonym in: 'It was a nice day.'
- 6th May 1981Add a comma: 'Yesterday I lost my favourite pen.'
- 7th May 1981Add commas if needed: 'My brother who lives in Leeds is visiting us tomorrow.' (assume he is my only brother)
- 8th May 1981Add commas around the extra information: 'My teacher who studied in Spain speaks fluent Spanish.'
- 9th May 1981Explain why 'on the other hand' would not fit in this sentence: 'She trained hard. ___, she won the race.'
- 10th May 1981Punctuate this list correctly using semicolons: 'We visited Leeds Yorkshire Bath Somerset and York Yorkshire.'
- 11th May 1981Join these two sentences using a semicolon: 'The rain stopped. The children went outside.'
- 12th May 1981Put 'walk' into the past simple.
- 13th May 1981Add the possessive apostrophe: 'James bike' (one boy named James)
- 14th May 1981Correct the verb form: 'I ain't got no pencil.'
- 15th May 1981Write a sentence using 'rarely' correctly with the verb 'to be'.
- 16th May 1981Choose the correctly punctuated sentence. A) 'The film (was two hours long.) was boring.' B) 'The film (was two hours long) was boring.'
- 17th May 1981Give the comparative form of 'small'.
- 18th May 1981Does this sentence have an object? 'The children laughed loudly.'
- 19th May 1981Give a more formal synonym for 'get' in 'We need to get more information.'
- 20th May 1981According to the sentence 'Scientists recorded a rise of nearly two degrees over the decade', by roughly how much did the temperature rise?
- 21st May 1981Rewrite using a preposition of place: 'The ball is (inside) the box.'
- 22nd May 1981Identify the reporting clause in: "I am tired," sighed Max.
- 23rd May 1981Identify the pronoun in this sentence and the noun it replaces: 'Layla found her keys after she searched the whole house.'
- 24th May 1981Rewrite to show permission rather than ability: 'I can go to the party.'
- 25th May 1981Expand the noun phrase 'the house' by adding two adjectives before it.
- 26th May 1981Identify the informal word in: 'Yeah, that's totally fine mate.'
- 27th May 1981Add a colon in the correct place: 'He had one goal win the trophy.'
- 28th May 1981What word class is 'quickly' in 'She ran quickly across the field'?
- 29th May 1981Put 'sleep' into the past continuous for 'she'.
- 30th May 1981Choose a or an: '___ honest answer'
- 31st May 1981Write a fronted adverbial of place to start this sentence: '___, a fox was hiding.'