Daily Practice · Key Stage 3
December 1964 5-a-day
Printing for a group?
The batch download puts all 5 tiers' December 1964 sheets in a single PDF, each tier behind its own divider page - 155 sheets in one file.
Every sheet in December 1964
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1964Choose the best connective to fill the gap: 'The plan was risky; _____, the team decided to go ahead.'
- 2nd December 1964Identify the punctuation for effect in this sentence: 'She opened the door slowly... and screamed.'
- 3rd December 1964Name the punctuation mark used to introduce direct speech in: 'the mayor said: it was a difficult decision.'
- 4th December 1964Combine into one sentence using a subordinate clause: 'The film started. We arrived late.'
- 5th December 1964Turn the adjective 'brave' into an abstract noun.
- 6th December 1964Choose the correct verb: 'The children (plays/play) outside every day.'
- 7th December 1964Identify the tone of 'I cannot believe you actually thought that would work.'
- 8th December 1964Rewrite 'The chef cooked the meal' in the passive voice.
- 9th December 1964Name the language technique in 'the wind howled through the trees'.
- 10th December 1964State whether this is a simple or compound sentence: 'The rain stopped and the sun came out.'
- 11th December 1964Identify the auxiliary verb in: 'They are playing football.'
- 12th December 1964Explain why 'look after' cannot be split, using the example 'look after the dog.'
- 13th December 1964Explain in a few words why 'chilly' is a weaker antonym of 'boiling' than 'freezing'.
- 14th December 1964Give the noun form of the verb 'discover'.
- 15th December 1964Identify the punctuation error: "Come here." he whispered.
- 16th December 1964State the term for when a sentence runs on from one line of a poem to the next without a pause.
- 17th December 1964Is it correct to write two different speakers' lines on the same line, one after the other?
- 18th December 1964Choose the correct option for bags belonging to three girls: 'the girls' bags' or 'the girl's bags'.
- 19th December 1964Which carries a more negative connotation: 'slim' or 'skinny'?
- 20th December 1964Combine into a compound-complex sentence: 'Tom was tired. He kept walking. He wanted to reach home.'
- 21st December 1964Explain in one sentence why writers use rhetorical questions in persuasive writing.
- 22nd December 1964Give two features of a formal letter's layout that would be missing from an informal text message.
- 23rd December 1964Choose the correct form: 'By the time we got to the cinema, the film ___ (play) for ten minutes.'
- 24th December 1964Explain why 'was swimming' is correct but 'was swiming' is not.
- 25th December 1964Change the time word: Direct speech: 'I will call you tomorrow,' he said. Which time word replaces 'tomorrow' in reported speech?
- 26th December 1964Rewrite 'He had rarely seen such courage' using inversion.
- 27th December 1964Explain in one sentence why an essay with no linking words between paragraphs might lose marks for cohesion.
- 28th December 1964Write an expanded noun phrase (at least two describing words) for 'the forest at dawn'.
- 29th December 1964Add a subordinate clause to make this a complex sentence: 'The teacher praised the pupil ___.'
- 30th December 1964Make this sentence negative: 'I saw the letter.'
- 31st December 1964Complete: 'If she had left earlier, she ___ (not miss) the train.'