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February 1977 5-a-day

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February 1977

28 sheets · 140 questions · Years 7-8

Every sheet in February 1977

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

  1. 1st February 1977Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The branches creaked and clawed at the window'?
  2. 2nd February 1977Find and copy one word from 'the anvil's patient, unmoving weight' that gives the anvil a human quality.
  3. 3rd February 1977Which word class is 'desperately' in 'He desperately searched for a handhold'?
  4. 4th February 1977Add an apostrophe in the correct place: The three girls coats were left on the bus. (There is one coat per girl, and three girls in total.)
  5. 5th February 1977A 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"?
  6. 6th February 1977A charity bake sale raises 200 pounds, split between three charities in the ratio 3 : 2 : 5. Work out the amount the largest share receives.
  7. 7th February 1977Convert 2 hours 15 minutes into minutes.
  8. 8th February 1977Find 2/9 of 63.
  9. 9th February 1977Write 5.4 x 10^4 as an ordinary number.
  10. 10th February 1977A recipe needs 250 g of flour to make 8 muffins. Work out how much flour is needed to make 20 muffins at the same recipe strength.
  11. 11th February 1977Write 0.72 as a fraction in its simplest form.
  12. 12th February 1977A regular polygon has an exterior angle of 24 degrees. Work out how many sides the polygon has.
  13. 13th February 1977A cuboid has dimensions 6 cm by 4 cm by 3 cm. Calculate its volume.
  14. 14th February 1977Write the next two terms of the sequence: 3, 7, 11, 15, ...
  15. 15th February 1977Name the substance that builds up in muscles during anaerobic respiration and causes fatigue.
  16. 16th February 1977Name the two substances that must both be present for iron to rust.
  17. 17th February 1977Write the number 0.048706 to 2 significant figures.
  18. 18th February 1977State the name of the rock type formed when magma cools and solidifies underground.
  19. 19th February 1977State the name of the process by which light rays bend as they pass from air into glass.
  20. 20th February 1977Which piece of apparatus should be used to measure the temperature of a liquid in an experiment?
  21. 21st February 1977In the same text, is the sentence "There is nothing more thrilling than floating silently above the countryside" a fact or an opinion?
  22. 22nd February 1977Find and copy one word from 'the tide dragged its heavy silver chain across the sand' that gives the tide a human or animal-like quality.
  23. 23rd February 1977Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The wind whispered through the willow'?
  24. 24th February 1977Add the missing apostrophe: The three teachers offices were being redecorated. (There are three teachers, each with their own office.)
  25. 25th February 1977Add a semicolon in the correct place: The bus was late the queue grew longer by the minute.
  26. 26th February 1977Explain why a poet might choose soft, hissing sounds, sibilance, to describe a fox moving at night, rather than harsh, hard sounds.
  27. 27th February 1977A magazine article about volcanoes is broken into sections titled 'How volcanoes form', 'Famous eruptions' and 'Living near a volcano'. What are these called, and what is their purpose?
  28. 28th February 1977Write down the coordinates of the point 3 units to the left of the origin and 5 units up.