Daily Practice · Key Stage 3
August 2007 - Key Stage 3 5-a-day
Every Key Stage 3 sheet published in August 2007, with answers. Years 7-9 - clauses, tone, language analysis and structured writing.
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Every sheet in August 2007
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2007State whether this is Fact or Opinion: 'Skipping breakfast is the worst thing a student can do.'
- 2nd August 2007Complete with the present perfect continuous: 'I ___ (wait) here for twenty minutes.'
- 3rd August 2007Complete: 'I ___ (watch) TV when you called.'
- 4th August 2007Change to reported speech: He said, 'I am reading a book.'
- 5th August 2007Rewrite 'I have never been so frightened' using inversion.
- 6th August 2007True or false: repeating a key word from the previous paragraph can help cohesion.
- 7th August 2007Give the meaning of 'deserted' as used in 'a deserted playground at midnight'.
- 8th August 2007Identify the subordinate clause in: 'Since the shop had closed, we went home.'
- 9th August 2007Turn this into a question: 'They are watching a film.'
- 10th August 2007Complete: 'If I ___ (be) taller, I would join the basketball team.'
- 11th August 2007Identify the discourse markers in this sentence and their function: 'Firstly, check your spelling; secondly, check your punctuation.'
- 12th August 2007Rewrite this flat sentence using two different effect-punctuation marks: 'The room was silent, nobody moved, everyone was afraid.'
- 13th August 2007Give one word from 'the shockingly high cost of repairs' that shows the writer's strong opinion.
- 14th August 2007Is 'Whenever it snows' a main clause or a subordinate clause?
- 15th August 2007Identify the abstract noun in: 'Her courage inspired the whole class.'
- 16th August 2007Correct the error: 'The reasons for his absence is unclear.'
- 17th August 2007Give one word from 'Hiya, fancy grabbing a coffee later?' that signals informal register.
- 18th August 2007Rewrite 'Someone stole my bike' in the passive voice.
- 19th August 2007Find one word in 'the ancient, crumbling tower loomed over the village' that suggests the tower is dangerous or threatening.
- 20th August 2007Rewrite this sentence in the passive voice: 'The storm damaged the roof.'
- 21st August 2007Identify the auxiliary verb in: 'He does not like spinach.'
- 22nd August 2007Rewrite formally: 'The company wants to bring in new rules.'
- 23rd August 2007Which is a stronger antonym of 'happy': 'sad' or 'miserable'?
- 24th August 2007Rewrite 'The team failed to qualify' using nominalisation of 'failed'.
- 25th August 2007Punctuate: he shouted watch out
- 26th August 2007State the term for a pause created by punctuation in the middle of a line of poetry.
- 27th August 2007Explain why starting a new paragraph for each new speaker matters in narrative writing.
- 28th August 2007Add the apostrophe correctly: 'The childrens coats were on the pegs.'
- 29th August 2007Put these in order from calmest to most intense: annoyed, furious, irritated.
- 30th August 2007How many independent clauses does a compound-complex sentence need at minimum?
- 31st August 2007Name the rhetorical pattern in 'I came, I saw, I conquered.'