Daily Practice · Key Stage 3
August 2004 - Key Stage 3 5-a-day
Every Key Stage 3 sheet published in August 2004, with answers. Years 7-9 - clauses, tone, language analysis and structured writing.
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Every sheet in August 2004
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2004Rewrite formally: 'The company wants to bring in new rules.'
- 2nd August 2004Which is a stronger antonym of 'happy': 'sad' or 'miserable'?
- 3rd August 2004Rewrite 'The team failed to qualify' using nominalisation of 'failed'.
- 4th August 2004Punctuate: he shouted watch out
- 5th August 2004State the term for a pause created by punctuation in the middle of a line of poetry.
- 6th August 2004Explain why starting a new paragraph for each new speaker matters in narrative writing.
- 7th August 2004Add the apostrophe correctly: 'The childrens coats were on the pegs.'
- 8th August 2004Put these in order from calmest to most intense: annoyed, furious, irritated.
- 9th August 2004How many independent clauses does a compound-complex sentence need at minimum?
- 10th August 2004Name the rhetorical pattern in 'I came, I saw, I conquered.'
- 11th August 2004Identify the persuasive technique in: 'Is it fair that some students cannot afford a hot meal at lunchtime?'
- 12th August 2004Complete with the past perfect continuous: 'She ___ (work) all morning before lunch arrived.'
- 13th August 2004Join these using past continuous plus past simple: 'We were eating dinner.' / 'The lights went out.'
- 14th August 2004Change to a reported question: She asked, 'Where do you live?'
- 15th August 2004Which type of word usually moves to the front in inversion for emphasis?
- 16th August 2004Identify the discourse marker in this paragraph opening: 'Similarly, the poet uses colour imagery to convey loss.'
- 17th August 2004Punctuate this line of speech correctly: wait she called we forgot the map
- 18th August 2004Is this sentence simple, compound or complex: 'Although it was cold, the children played outside.'?
- 19th August 2004Fill the gap with the missing auxiliary verb: 'We ___ not eaten breakfast.'
- 20th August 2004Complete: 'If it is sunny tomorrow, we ___ (go) to the beach.'
- 21st August 2004Choose the best connective to fill the gap: 'The plan was risky; _____, the team decided to go ahead.'
- 22nd August 2004Identify the punctuation for effect in this sentence: 'She opened the door slowly... and screamed.'
- 23rd August 2004Name the punctuation mark used to introduce direct speech in: 'the mayor said: it was a difficult decision.'
- 24th August 2004Combine into one sentence using a subordinate clause: 'The film started. We arrived late.'
- 25th August 2004Turn the adjective 'brave' into an abstract noun.
- 26th August 2004Choose the correct verb: 'The children (plays/play) outside every day.'
- 27th August 2004Identify the tone of 'I cannot believe you actually thought that would work.'
- 28th August 2004Rewrite 'The chef cooked the meal' in the passive voice.
- 29th August 2004Name the language technique in 'the wind howled through the trees'.
- 30th August 2004State whether this is a simple or compound sentence: 'The rain stopped and the sun came out.'
- 31st August 2004Identify the auxiliary verb in: 'They are playing football.'