Daily Practice · Key Stage 3
January 1971 5-a-day
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- 1st January 1971Identify the persuasive technique in: 'Is it fair that some students cannot afford a hot meal at lunchtime?'
- 2nd January 1971Complete with the past perfect continuous: 'She ___ (work) all morning before lunch arrived.'
- 3rd January 1971Join these using past continuous plus past simple: 'We were eating dinner.' / 'The lights went out.'
- 4th January 1971Change to a reported question: She asked, 'Where do you live?'
- 5th January 1971Which type of word usually moves to the front in inversion for emphasis?
- 6th January 1971Identify the discourse marker in this paragraph opening: 'Similarly, the poet uses colour imagery to convey loss.'
- 7th January 1971Punctuate this line of speech correctly: wait she called we forgot the map
- 8th January 1971Is this sentence simple, compound or complex: 'Although it was cold, the children played outside.'?
- 9th January 1971Fill the gap with the missing auxiliary verb: 'We ___ not eaten breakfast.'
- 10th January 1971Complete: 'If it is sunny tomorrow, we ___ (go) to the beach.'
- 11th January 1971Choose the best connective to fill the gap: 'The plan was risky; _____, the team decided to go ahead.'
- 12th January 1971Identify the punctuation for effect in this sentence: 'She opened the door slowly... and screamed.'
- 13th January 1971Name the punctuation mark used to introduce direct speech in: 'the mayor said: it was a difficult decision.'
- 14th January 1971Combine into one sentence using a subordinate clause: 'The film started. We arrived late.'
- 15th January 1971Turn the adjective 'brave' into an abstract noun.
- 16th January 1971Choose the correct verb: 'The children (plays/play) outside every day.'
- 17th January 1971Identify the tone of 'I cannot believe you actually thought that would work.'
- 18th January 1971Rewrite 'The chef cooked the meal' in the passive voice.
- 19th January 1971Name the language technique in 'the wind howled through the trees'.
- 20th January 1971State whether this is a simple or compound sentence: 'The rain stopped and the sun came out.'
- 21st January 1971Identify the auxiliary verb in: 'They are playing football.'
- 22nd January 1971Explain why 'look after' cannot be split, using the example 'look after the dog.'
- 23rd January 1971Explain in a few words why 'chilly' is a weaker antonym of 'boiling' than 'freezing'.
- 24th January 1971Give the noun form of the verb 'discover'.
- 25th January 1971Identify the punctuation error: "Come here." he whispered.
- 26th January 1971State the term for when a sentence runs on from one line of a poem to the next without a pause.
- 27th January 1971Is it correct to write two different speakers' lines on the same line, one after the other?
- 28th January 1971Choose the correct option for bags belonging to three girls: 'the girls' bags' or 'the girl's bags'.
- 29th January 1971Which carries a more negative connotation: 'slim' or 'skinny'?
- 30th January 1971Combine into a compound-complex sentence: 'Tom was tired. He kept walking. He wanted to reach home.'
- 31st January 1971Explain in one sentence why writers use rhetorical questions in persuasive writing.