Daily Practice · Key Stage 3
February 2001 - Key Stage 3 5-a-day
Every Key Stage 3 sheet published in February 2001, with answers. Years 7-9 - clauses, tone, language analysis and structured writing.
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Every sheet in February 2001
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 2001Choose the correct verb: 'The children (plays/play) outside every day.'
- 2nd February 2001Identify the tone of 'I cannot believe you actually thought that would work.'
- 3rd February 2001Rewrite 'The chef cooked the meal' in the passive voice.
- 4th February 2001Name the language technique in 'the wind howled through the trees'.
- 5th February 2001State whether this is a simple or compound sentence: 'The rain stopped and the sun came out.'
- 6th February 2001Identify the auxiliary verb in: 'They are playing football.'
- 7th February 2001Explain why 'look after' cannot be split, using the example 'look after the dog.'
- 8th February 2001Explain in a few words why 'chilly' is a weaker antonym of 'boiling' than 'freezing'.
- 9th February 2001Give the noun form of the verb 'discover'.
- 10th February 2001Identify the punctuation error: "Come here." he whispered.
- 11th February 2001State the term for when a sentence runs on from one line of a poem to the next without a pause.
- 12th February 2001Is it correct to write two different speakers' lines on the same line, one after the other?
- 13th February 2001Choose the correct option for bags belonging to three girls: 'the girls' bags' or 'the girl's bags'.
- 14th February 2001Which carries a more negative connotation: 'slim' or 'skinny'?
- 15th February 2001Combine into a compound-complex sentence: 'Tom was tired. He kept walking. He wanted to reach home.'
- 16th February 2001Explain in one sentence why writers use rhetorical questions in persuasive writing.
- 17th February 2001Give two features of a formal letter's layout that would be missing from an informal text message.
- 18th February 2001Choose the correct form: 'By the time we got to the cinema, the film ___ (play) for ten minutes.'
- 19th February 2001Explain why 'was swimming' is correct but 'was swiming' is not.
- 20th February 2001Change the time word: Direct speech: 'I will call you tomorrow,' he said. Which time word replaces 'tomorrow' in reported speech?
- 21st February 2001Rewrite 'He had rarely seen such courage' using inversion.
- 22nd February 2001Explain in one sentence why an essay with no linking words between paragraphs might lose marks for cohesion.
- 23rd February 2001Write an expanded noun phrase (at least two describing words) for 'the forest at dawn'.
- 24th February 2001Add a subordinate clause to make this a complex sentence: 'The teacher praised the pupil ___.'
- 25th February 2001Make this sentence negative: 'I saw the letter.'
- 26th February 2001Complete: 'If she had left earlier, she ___ (not miss) the train.'
- 27th February 2001Give one connective that shows cause and effect.
- 28th February 2001Which punctuation mark links two closely related independent clauses without a conjunction: a comma, a semicolon or a full stop?