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June 1969 5-a-day

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June 1969

30 sheets · 150 questions · Years 7-8

Every sheet in June 1969

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st June 1969Choose the correct homophone: ___ going to be late if the bus does not arrive soon. (Whose / Who's)
  2. 2nd June 1969Identify the subordinate clause in this sentence: Because the fire alarm sounded, everyone left the building calmly.
  3. 3rd June 1969What is the term for a poem that continues a sentence or idea from one line to the next without a pause?
  4. 4th June 1969In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The expedition team faced constant attrition - illness, injury and exhaustion wore down their numbers day by day.' What does 'attrition' mean here?
  5. 5th June 1969A train travels 90 km in 1.5 hours at a constant speed, shown as a straight line on a distance-time graph. Calculate the gradient of this line, and state what it represents.
  6. 6th June 1969The nth term of a sequence is 5n - 2. Work out the 15th term.
  7. 7th June 1969Find 3/8 of 64.
  8. 8th June 19693/4 of a number is 54. Work out 5/6 of the same number.
  9. 9th June 1969Work out the size of each interior angle of a regular decagon (10 sides).
  10. 10th June 1969In a right-angled triangle, the hypotenuse is 13 cm and one other side is 5 cm. Work out the size of the angle opposite the 5 cm side, to 1 decimal place.
  11. 11th June 1969A triangle has sides 7 cm and 9 cm with an included angle of 50 degrees. Work out its area, to 1 decimal place.
  12. 12th June 1969Work out the mean of 8, 12, 15, 9 and 11.
  13. 13th June 1969Find 25% of 84 pounds.
  14. 14th June 1969Name the joint type found in the hip, and state one other place in the body where this same joint type is found.
  15. 15th June 1969Complete the word equation: hydrochloric acid + sodium hydroxide produces ___ + ___.
  16. 16th June 1969A wave has a frequency of 50 Hz and a wavelength of 4 m. Use wave speed = frequency x wavelength to calculate its speed.
  17. 17th June 1969State the pH of a neutral solution such as pure water.
  18. 18th June 1969State whether the Earth casting a shadow that blocks sunlight from reaching the Moon is called a solar eclipse or a lunar eclipse.
  19. 19th June 1969State whether an acid has a pH value above or below 7.
  20. 20th June 1969A hazard symbol shows a skull and crossbones on an orange background. State what hazard this represents.
  21. 21st June 1969A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how the writer builds a sense of danger across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
  22. 22nd June 1969A travel article is written for a general newspaper audience rather than for expert climbers. How might its vocabulary and level of detail differ from a specialist mountaineering magazine?
  23. 23rd June 1969In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The submersible's hull must withstand immense pressure at such depths, where a single flaw could prove catastrophic.' What does 'catastrophic' mean here?
  24. 24th June 1969Name the technique used in this slogan: Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.
  25. 25th June 1969Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for 'the alleyway at dusk.'
  26. 26th June 1969Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The station was BUSY."
  27. 27th June 1969Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for "the fruit stall."
  28. 28th June 1969A coin is flipped 200 times and lands on heads 118 times. Calculate the relative frequency of landing on heads.
  29. 29th June 1969A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 5 cm and 12 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
  30. 30th June 1969The nth term of a sequence is 4n + 3. Work out the 20th term.