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March 1975 5-a-day

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March 1975

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 7-8

Every sheet in March 1975

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

  1. 1st March 1975Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The map was old and torn."
  2. 2nd March 1975Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for 'the corridor at midnight.'
  3. 3rd March 1975A writer describes a departure board as 'flickering through a list of cancellations like a nervous heartbeat.' Name the technique used.
  4. 4th March 1975A character 'held his breath without realising it' as he entered a dark passage. What does this suggest about his feelings?
  5. 5th March 1975A poem has four lines per stanza with the rhyme pattern ABAB. What is this pattern called?
  6. 6th March 1975Is the claim 'reading is obviously more rewarding than scrolling through a screen' a fact or an opinion?
  7. 7th March 1975A question asks you to explain "how the poet's feelings towards winter change across the poem." What should your answer focus on?
  8. 8th March 1975A trapezium has parallel sides of 6 cm and 10 cm, and a height of 5 cm. Calculate its area.
  9. 9th March 1975Work out -4 - 7.
  10. 10th March 1975Find the highest common factor of 24 and 36.
  11. 11th March 1975Simplify 6x + 4 - 2x - 9.
  12. 12th March 1975A basket contains 15 lemons and 25 limes. Write the ratio of lemons to limes in its simplest form.
  13. 13th March 1975Calculate 56 + 29.
  14. 14th March 1975Work out 20 - 3 x 4.
  15. 15th March 1975A number is tripled and then 5 is added, giving 32. Form an equation and find the number.
  16. 16th March 1975Simplify the ratio 18:24 to its simplest form.
  17. 17th March 1975Name the green pigment, found in chloroplasts, that absorbs light energy for photosynthesis.
  18. 18th March 1975Name the group of the periodic table that contains elements which are almost completely unreactive because their outer electron shell is full.
  19. 19th March 1975A red filter is held in front of a torch shining white light. State which colour of light passes through the filter.
  20. 20th March 1975State whether sound can travel through a vacuum (empty space), and give a reason.
  21. 21st March 1975Name the blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart.
  22. 22nd March 1975Name the small intestine's main job in the digestive system.
  23. 23rd March 1975In an extract, a character 'chewed his lip and stared at his shoes.' What does this suggest about the character's feelings?
  24. 24th March 1975Add a colon to this sentence in the correct place: The expedition needed three things warm clothing enough food and a reliable map.
  25. 25th March 1975Choose the correct word: There were ___ people at the concert than last year. (less / fewer)
  26. 26th March 1975Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The branches creaked and clawed at the window'?
  27. 27th March 1975Find and copy one word from 'the anvil's patient, unmoving weight' that gives the anvil a human quality.
  28. 28th March 1975Which word class is 'desperately' in 'He desperately searched for a handhold'?
  29. 29th March 1975In the sentence 'The overexcited puppy chewed through the new shoe,' what word class is 'chewed'?
  30. 30th March 1975A question asks you to "find and copy one phrase" meaning "completely dark." Which of these fits: "pitch black", "faintly lit", "clear blue" or "softly glowing"?
  31. 31st March 1975Simplify 5x + 3y - 2x + 7y.