Daily Practice · Key Stage 3
December 1968 5-a-day
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Every sheet in December 1968
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1968Identify the abstract noun in: 'Her courage inspired the whole class.'
- 2nd December 1968Correct the error: 'The reasons for his absence is unclear.'
- 3rd December 1968Give one word from 'Hiya, fancy grabbing a coffee later?' that signals informal register.
- 4th December 1968Rewrite 'Someone stole my bike' in the passive voice.
- 5th December 1968Find one word in 'the ancient, crumbling tower loomed over the village' that suggests the tower is dangerous or threatening.
- 6th December 1968Rewrite this sentence in the passive voice: 'The storm damaged the roof.'
- 7th December 1968Identify the auxiliary verb in: 'He does not like spinach.'
- 8th December 1968Rewrite formally: 'The company wants to bring in new rules.'
- 9th December 1968Which is a stronger antonym of 'happy': 'sad' or 'miserable'?
- 10th December 1968Rewrite 'The team failed to qualify' using nominalisation of 'failed'.
- 11th December 1968Punctuate: he shouted watch out
- 12th December 1968State the term for a pause created by punctuation in the middle of a line of poetry.
- 13th December 1968Explain why starting a new paragraph for each new speaker matters in narrative writing.
- 14th December 1968Add the apostrophe correctly: 'The childrens coats were on the pegs.'
- 15th December 1968Put these in order from calmest to most intense: annoyed, furious, irritated.
- 16th December 1968How many independent clauses does a compound-complex sentence need at minimum?
- 17th December 1968Name the rhetorical pattern in 'I came, I saw, I conquered.'
- 18th December 1968Identify the persuasive technique in: 'Is it fair that some students cannot afford a hot meal at lunchtime?'
- 19th December 1968Complete with the past perfect continuous: 'She ___ (work) all morning before lunch arrived.'
- 20th December 1968Join these using past continuous plus past simple: 'We were eating dinner.' / 'The lights went out.'
- 21st December 1968Change to a reported question: She asked, 'Where do you live?'
- 22nd December 1968Which type of word usually moves to the front in inversion for emphasis?
- 23rd December 1968Identify the discourse marker in this paragraph opening: 'Similarly, the poet uses colour imagery to convey loss.'
- 24th December 1968Punctuate this line of speech correctly: wait she called we forgot the map
- 25th December 1968Is this sentence simple, compound or complex: 'Although it was cold, the children played outside.'?
- 26th December 1968Fill the gap with the missing auxiliary verb: 'We ___ not eaten breakfast.'
- 27th December 1968Complete: 'If it is sunny tomorrow, we ___ (go) to the beach.'
- 28th December 1968Choose the best connective to fill the gap: 'The plan was risky; _____, the team decided to go ahead.'
- 29th December 1968Identify the punctuation for effect in this sentence: 'She opened the door slowly... and screamed.'
- 30th December 1968Name the punctuation mark used to introduce direct speech in: 'the mayor said: it was a difficult decision.'
- 31st December 1968Combine into one sentence using a subordinate clause: 'The film started. We arrived late.'