Daily Practice · Key Stage 3
May 1997 - Key Stage 3 5-a-day
Every Key Stage 3 sheet published in May 1997, with answers. Years 7-9 - clauses, tone, language analysis and structured writing.
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Every sheet in May 1997
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 1997Rewrite as a complex sentence, placing a subordinate clause in the middle: 'The house was sold quickly.'
- 2nd May 1997Turn this into a question: 'You can swim.'
- 3rd May 1997Which conditional type is used in: 'If you mix red and blue, you get purple.'?
- 4th May 1997Rewrite using a connective of contrast: 'He trained every day. He did not make the team.'
- 5th May 1997Add a colon in the correct place: 'He had only one goal win the race.'
- 6th May 1997Is a feature article in a newspaper fiction or non-fiction?
- 7th May 1997Explain why 'Since the exam is tomorrow' cannot stand alone as a sentence.
- 8th May 1997Which word is the collective noun: swarm, bee, sting?
- 9th May 1997Choose the correct verb: 'The group of students (is/are) revising for the test.'
- 10th May 1997Is 'Hiya, fancy grabbing a coffee later?' formal or informal register?
- 11th May 1997Explain in a few words one reason a scientific report often uses the passive voice.
- 12th May 1997What effect does a very short sentence, such as 'He ran.', usually have on pacing?
- 13th May 1997Identify the word class of 'quickly' in: 'She quickly closed the door.'
- 14th May 1997Explain the difference between an auxiliary verb and a modal verb, giving one example of each.
- 15th May 1997What does the phrasal verb mean in: 'She gave up chocolate for a month.'
- 16th May 1997Give a simple antonym for 'hot'.
- 17th May 1997Rewrite 'They decided to leave' using nominalisation of 'decided'.
- 18th May 1997True or false: every new speaker in dialogue needs a new paragraph.
- 19th May 1997Identify the technique used in: 'Slowly, silently, snow settled on the silent street.'
- 20th May 1997Punctuate this line of speech, including a reporting clause: Tom: I am hungry.
- 21st May 1997Explain the difference in meaning between 'the cat's toy' and 'the cats' toy'.
- 22nd May 1997Choose the stronger word for 'she looked at him': 'glanced' or 'glared', and say why.
- 23rd May 1997Identify the subordinate clause in the sentence above.
- 24th May 1997Write a short sentence using anaphora about hard work, repeating 'We must' at the start of each clause.
- 25th May 1997State whether this is Fact or Opinion: 'Skipping breakfast is the worst thing a student can do.'
- 26th May 1997Complete with the present perfect continuous: 'I ___ (wait) here for twenty minutes.'
- 27th May 1997Complete: 'I ___ (watch) TV when you called.'
- 28th May 1997Change to reported speech: He said, 'I am reading a book.'
- 29th May 1997Rewrite 'I have never been so frightened' using inversion.
- 30th May 1997True or false: repeating a key word from the previous paragraph can help cohesion.
- 31st May 1997Give the meaning of 'deserted' as used in 'a deserted playground at midnight'.