Daily Practice · Key Stage 3
May 2016 - Key Stage 3 5-a-day
Every Key Stage 3 sheet published in May 2016, with answers. Years 7-9 - clauses, tone, language analysis and structured writing.
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Every sheet in May 2016
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2016Change to a reported question: She asked, 'Where do you live?'
- 2nd May 2016Which type of word usually moves to the front in inversion for emphasis?
- 3rd May 2016Identify the discourse marker in this paragraph opening: 'Similarly, the poet uses colour imagery to convey loss.'
- 4th May 2016Punctuate this line of speech correctly: wait she called we forgot the map
- 5th May 2016Is this sentence simple, compound or complex: 'Although it was cold, the children played outside.'?
- 6th May 2016Fill the gap with the missing auxiliary verb: 'We ___ not eaten breakfast.'
- 7th May 2016Complete: 'If it is sunny tomorrow, we ___ (go) to the beach.'
- 8th May 2016Choose the best connective to fill the gap: 'The plan was risky; _____, the team decided to go ahead.'
- 9th May 2016Identify the punctuation for effect in this sentence: 'She opened the door slowly... and screamed.'
- 10th May 2016Name the punctuation mark used to introduce direct speech in: 'the mayor said: it was a difficult decision.'
- 11th May 2016Combine into one sentence using a subordinate clause: 'The film started. We arrived late.'
- 12th May 2016Turn the adjective 'brave' into an abstract noun.
- 13th May 2016Choose the correct verb: 'The children (plays/play) outside every day.'
- 14th May 2016Identify the tone of 'I cannot believe you actually thought that would work.'
- 15th May 2016Rewrite 'The chef cooked the meal' in the passive voice.
- 16th May 2016Name the language technique in 'the wind howled through the trees'.
- 17th May 2016State whether this is a simple or compound sentence: 'The rain stopped and the sun came out.'
- 18th May 2016Identify the auxiliary verb in: 'They are playing football.'
- 19th May 2016Explain why 'look after' cannot be split, using the example 'look after the dog.'
- 20th May 2016Explain in a few words why 'chilly' is a weaker antonym of 'boiling' than 'freezing'.
- 21st May 2016Give the noun form of the verb 'discover'.
- 22nd May 2016Identify the punctuation error: "Come here." he whispered.
- 23rd May 2016State the term for when a sentence runs on from one line of a poem to the next without a pause.
- 24th May 2016Is it correct to write two different speakers' lines on the same line, one after the other?
- 25th May 2016Choose the correct option for bags belonging to three girls: 'the girls' bags' or 'the girl's bags'.
- 26th May 2016Which carries a more negative connotation: 'slim' or 'skinny'?
- 27th May 2016Combine into a compound-complex sentence: 'Tom was tired. He kept walking. He wanted to reach home.'
- 28th May 2016Explain in one sentence why writers use rhetorical questions in persuasive writing.
- 29th May 2016Give two features of a formal letter's layout that would be missing from an informal text message.
- 30th May 2016Choose the correct form: 'By the time we got to the cinema, the film ___ (play) for ten minutes.'
- 31st May 2016Explain why 'was swimming' is correct but 'was swiming' is not.