Daily Practice · Key Stage 3
March 2012 - Key Stage 3 5-a-day
Every Key Stage 3 sheet published in March 2012, with answers. Years 7-9 - clauses, tone, language analysis and structured writing.
Printing for a group?
The batch download puts all 5 tiers' March 2012 sheets in a single PDF, each tier behind its own divider page - 155 sheets in one file.
Every sheet in March 2012
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 2012State whether this is Fact or Opinion: 'Skipping breakfast is the worst thing a student can do.'
- 2nd March 2012Complete with the present perfect continuous: 'I ___ (wait) here for twenty minutes.'
- 3rd March 2012Complete: 'I ___ (watch) TV when you called.'
- 4th March 2012Change to reported speech: He said, 'I am reading a book.'
- 5th March 2012Rewrite 'I have never been so frightened' using inversion.
- 6th March 2012True or false: repeating a key word from the previous paragraph can help cohesion.
- 7th March 2012Give the meaning of 'deserted' as used in 'a deserted playground at midnight'.
- 8th March 2012Identify the subordinate clause in: 'Since the shop had closed, we went home.'
- 9th March 2012Turn this into a question: 'They are watching a film.'
- 10th March 2012Complete: 'If I ___ (be) taller, I would join the basketball team.'
- 11th March 2012Identify the discourse markers in this sentence and their function: 'Firstly, check your spelling; secondly, check your punctuation.'
- 12th March 2012Rewrite this flat sentence using two different effect-punctuation marks: 'The room was silent, nobody moved, everyone was afraid.'
- 13th March 2012Give one word from 'the shockingly high cost of repairs' that shows the writer's strong opinion.
- 14th March 2012Is 'Whenever it snows' a main clause or a subordinate clause?
- 15th March 2012Identify the abstract noun in: 'Her courage inspired the whole class.'
- 16th March 2012Correct the error: 'The reasons for his absence is unclear.'
- 17th March 2012Give one word from 'Hiya, fancy grabbing a coffee later?' that signals informal register.
- 18th March 2012Rewrite 'Someone stole my bike' in the passive voice.
- 19th March 2012Find one word in 'the ancient, crumbling tower loomed over the village' that suggests the tower is dangerous or threatening.
- 20th March 2012Rewrite this sentence in the passive voice: 'The storm damaged the roof.'
- 21st March 2012Identify the auxiliary verb in: 'He does not like spinach.'
- 22nd March 2012Rewrite formally: 'The company wants to bring in new rules.'
- 23rd March 2012Which is a stronger antonym of 'happy': 'sad' or 'miserable'?
- 24th March 2012Rewrite 'The team failed to qualify' using nominalisation of 'failed'.
- 25th March 2012Punctuate: he shouted watch out
- 26th March 2012State the term for a pause created by punctuation in the middle of a line of poetry.
- 27th March 2012Explain why starting a new paragraph for each new speaker matters in narrative writing.
- 28th March 2012Add the apostrophe correctly: 'The childrens coats were on the pegs.'
- 29th March 2012Put these in order from calmest to most intense: annoyed, furious, irritated.
- 30th March 2012How many independent clauses does a compound-complex sentence need at minimum?
- 31st March 2012Name the rhetorical pattern in 'I came, I saw, I conquered.'