Daily Practice · Key Stage 3
March 1982 5-a-day
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Every sheet in March 1982
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 1982Give one word from 'Hiya, fancy grabbing a coffee later?' that signals informal register.
- 2nd March 1982Rewrite 'Someone stole my bike' in the passive voice.
- 3rd March 1982Find one word in 'the ancient, crumbling tower loomed over the village' that suggests the tower is dangerous or threatening.
- 4th March 1982Rewrite this sentence in the passive voice: 'The storm damaged the roof.'
- 5th March 1982Identify the auxiliary verb in: 'He does not like spinach.'
- 6th March 1982Rewrite formally: 'The company wants to bring in new rules.'
- 7th March 1982Which is a stronger antonym of 'happy': 'sad' or 'miserable'?
- 8th March 1982Rewrite 'The team failed to qualify' using nominalisation of 'failed'.
- 9th March 1982Punctuate: he shouted watch out
- 10th March 1982State the term for a pause created by punctuation in the middle of a line of poetry.
- 11th March 1982Explain why starting a new paragraph for each new speaker matters in narrative writing.
- 12th March 1982Add the apostrophe correctly: 'The childrens coats were on the pegs.'
- 13th March 1982Put these in order from calmest to most intense: annoyed, furious, irritated.
- 14th March 1982How many independent clauses does a compound-complex sentence need at minimum?
- 15th March 1982Name the rhetorical pattern in 'I came, I saw, I conquered.'
- 16th March 1982Identify the persuasive technique in: 'Is it fair that some students cannot afford a hot meal at lunchtime?'
- 17th March 1982Complete with the past perfect continuous: 'She ___ (work) all morning before lunch arrived.'
- 18th March 1982Join these using past continuous plus past simple: 'We were eating dinner.' / 'The lights went out.'
- 19th March 1982Change to a reported question: She asked, 'Where do you live?'
- 20th March 1982Which type of word usually moves to the front in inversion for emphasis?
- 21st March 1982Identify the discourse marker in this paragraph opening: 'Similarly, the poet uses colour imagery to convey loss.'
- 22nd March 1982Punctuate this line of speech correctly: wait she called we forgot the map
- 23rd March 1982Is this sentence simple, compound or complex: 'Although it was cold, the children played outside.'?
- 24th March 1982Fill the gap with the missing auxiliary verb: 'We ___ not eaten breakfast.'
- 25th March 1982Complete: 'If it is sunny tomorrow, we ___ (go) to the beach.'
- 26th March 1982Choose the best connective to fill the gap: 'The plan was risky; _____, the team decided to go ahead.'
- 27th March 1982Identify the punctuation for effect in this sentence: 'She opened the door slowly... and screamed.'
- 28th March 1982Name the punctuation mark used to introduce direct speech in: 'the mayor said: it was a difficult decision.'
- 29th March 1982Combine into one sentence using a subordinate clause: 'The film started. We arrived late.'
- 30th March 1982Turn the adjective 'brave' into an abstract noun.
- 31st March 1982Choose the correct verb: 'The children (plays/play) outside every day.'