Daily Practice · Key Stage 3
April 2012 - Key Stage 3 5-a-day
Every Key Stage 3 sheet published in April 2012, with answers. Years 7-9 - clauses, tone, language analysis and structured writing.
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Every sheet in April 2012
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 2012Identify the persuasive technique in: 'Is it fair that some students cannot afford a hot meal at lunchtime?'
- 2nd April 2012Complete with the past perfect continuous: 'She ___ (work) all morning before lunch arrived.'
- 3rd April 2012Join these using past continuous plus past simple: 'We were eating dinner.' / 'The lights went out.'
- 4th April 2012Change to a reported question: She asked, 'Where do you live?'
- 5th April 2012Which type of word usually moves to the front in inversion for emphasis?
- 6th April 2012Identify the discourse marker in this paragraph opening: 'Similarly, the poet uses colour imagery to convey loss.'
- 7th April 2012Punctuate this line of speech correctly: wait she called we forgot the map
- 8th April 2012Is this sentence simple, compound or complex: 'Although it was cold, the children played outside.'?
- 9th April 2012Fill the gap with the missing auxiliary verb: 'We ___ not eaten breakfast.'
- 10th April 2012Complete: 'If it is sunny tomorrow, we ___ (go) to the beach.'
- 11th April 2012Choose the best connective to fill the gap: 'The plan was risky; _____, the team decided to go ahead.'
- 12th April 2012Identify the punctuation for effect in this sentence: 'She opened the door slowly... and screamed.'
- 13th April 2012Name the punctuation mark used to introduce direct speech in: 'the mayor said: it was a difficult decision.'
- 14th April 2012Combine into one sentence using a subordinate clause: 'The film started. We arrived late.'
- 15th April 2012Turn the adjective 'brave' into an abstract noun.
- 16th April 2012Choose the correct verb: 'The children (plays/play) outside every day.'
- 17th April 2012Identify the tone of 'I cannot believe you actually thought that would work.'
- 18th April 2012Rewrite 'The chef cooked the meal' in the passive voice.
- 19th April 2012Name the language technique in 'the wind howled through the trees'.
- 20th April 2012State whether this is a simple or compound sentence: 'The rain stopped and the sun came out.'
- 21st April 2012Identify the auxiliary verb in: 'They are playing football.'
- 22nd April 2012Explain why 'look after' cannot be split, using the example 'look after the dog.'
- 23rd April 2012Explain in a few words why 'chilly' is a weaker antonym of 'boiling' than 'freezing'.
- 24th April 2012Give the noun form of the verb 'discover'.
- 25th April 2012Identify the punctuation error: "Come here." he whispered.
- 26th April 2012State the term for when a sentence runs on from one line of a poem to the next without a pause.
- 27th April 2012Is it correct to write two different speakers' lines on the same line, one after the other?
- 28th April 2012Choose the correct option for bags belonging to three girls: 'the girls' bags' or 'the girl's bags'.
- 29th April 2012Which carries a more negative connotation: 'slim' or 'skinny'?
- 30th April 2012Combine into a compound-complex sentence: 'Tom was tired. He kept walking. He wanted to reach home.'