Daily Practice · Key Stage 3
October 2020 - Key Stage 3 5-a-day
Every Key Stage 3 sheet published in October 2020, with answers. Years 7-9 - clauses, tone, language analysis and structured writing.
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Every sheet in October 2020
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2020Give one word or phrase that could link a paragraph about causes to a paragraph about effects.
- 2nd October 2020Rewrite this sentence to show fear through action rather than naming the feeling: 'Tom was very frightened.'
- 3rd October 2020Rewrite as a complex sentence, placing a subordinate clause in the middle: 'The house was sold quickly.'
- 4th October 2020Turn this into a question: 'You can swim.'
- 5th October 2020Which conditional type is used in: 'If you mix red and blue, you get purple.'?
- 6th October 2020Rewrite using a connective of contrast: 'He trained every day. He did not make the team.'
- 7th October 2020Add a colon in the correct place: 'He had only one goal win the race.'
- 8th October 2020Is a feature article in a newspaper fiction or non-fiction?
- 9th October 2020Explain why 'Since the exam is tomorrow' cannot stand alone as a sentence.
- 10th October 2020Which word is the collective noun: swarm, bee, sting?
- 11th October 2020Choose the correct verb: 'The group of students (is/are) revising for the test.'
- 12th October 2020Is 'Hiya, fancy grabbing a coffee later?' formal or informal register?
- 13th October 2020Explain in a few words one reason a scientific report often uses the passive voice.
- 14th October 2020What effect does a very short sentence, such as 'He ran.', usually have on pacing?
- 15th October 2020Identify the word class of 'quickly' in: 'She quickly closed the door.'
- 16th October 2020Explain the difference between an auxiliary verb and a modal verb, giving one example of each.
- 17th October 2020What does the phrasal verb mean in: 'She gave up chocolate for a month.'
- 18th October 2020Give a simple antonym for 'hot'.
- 19th October 2020Rewrite 'They decided to leave' using nominalisation of 'decided'.
- 20th October 2020True or false: every new speaker in dialogue needs a new paragraph.
- 21st October 2020Identify the technique used in: 'Slowly, silently, snow settled on the silent street.'
- 22nd October 2020Punctuate this line of speech, including a reporting clause: Tom: I am hungry.
- 23rd October 2020Explain the difference in meaning between 'the cat's toy' and 'the cats' toy'.
- 24th October 2020Choose the stronger word for 'she looked at him': 'glanced' or 'glared', and say why.
- 25th October 2020Identify the subordinate clause in the sentence above.
- 26th October 2020Write a short sentence using anaphora about hard work, repeating 'We must' at the start of each clause.
- 27th October 2020State whether this is Fact or Opinion: 'Skipping breakfast is the worst thing a student can do.'
- 28th October 2020Complete with the present perfect continuous: 'I ___ (wait) here for twenty minutes.'
- 29th October 2020Complete: 'I ___ (watch) TV when you called.'
- 30th October 2020Change to reported speech: He said, 'I am reading a book.'
- 31st October 2020Rewrite 'I have never been so frightened' using inversion.