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September 1980 5-a-day

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September 1980

30 sheets · 150 questions · Years 7-8

Every sheet in September 1980

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

  1. 1st September 1980In the sentence "The exhausted runner collapsed across the finish line," what word class is "exhausted"?
  2. 2nd September 1980In an extract, a character 'set down his tools without a word and walked out into the rain.' What might this action suggest about his state of mind?
  3. 3rd September 1980A writer describes a clock as "ticking its patient warning through the empty hall." Name the poetic technique used here.
  4. 4th September 1980Punctuate this exchange, adding inverted commas, capital letters and any other punctuation needed: are you sure about this asked Leo his sister nodded without looking up
  5. 5th September 1980Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: The funfair was SCARY.
  6. 6th September 1980A speaker says 'Ninety per cent of our debate club members say it changed how they see arguments.' Name the technique used here.
  7. 7th September 1980Is the claim 'this is the most dangerous road crossing in the whole town' a fact or an opinion? Explain your answer.
  8. 8th September 1980Order these integers from smallest to largest: -6, 2, -3, 0, -9
  9. 9th September 1980A right-angled triangle has two shorter sides of length 9 cm and 12 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
  10. 10th September 1980A triangle has base 10 cm and height 7 cm. Work out its area.
  11. 11th September 1980p is inversely proportional to q^2. When q = 2, p = 18. Work out p when q = 3.
  12. 12th September 1980The nth term of a sequence is 6n - 4. Work out the 12th term.
  13. 13th September 1980A car journey of 156 miles takes 2.4 hours. Work out the average speed, to the nearest mile per hour.
  14. 14th September 1980A rectangle has a perimeter of 38 cm and a width of 6.5 cm. Work out its length.
  15. 15th September 1980Find the area of a triangle with base 12 cm and height 7 cm.
  16. 16th September 1980A box contains 7 yellow pencils, 5 blue pencils and 3 green pencils. A pencil is picked at random. Find the probability that it is not blue.
  17. 17th September 1980State one structure found in a plant cell but not in an animal cell.
  18. 18th September 1980A sample of matter has particles that are far apart and moving quickly in random directions. State which state of matter this describes.
  19. 19th September 1980In a tug of war, Team X pulls with a force of 640 N and Team Y pulls with a force of 590 N in the opposite direction. Calculate the resultant force acting on the rope.
  20. 20th September 1980A cyclist travels 300 m in 25 s. Calculate her average speed.
  21. 21st September 1980Name the gas produced when a reactive metal reacts with a dilute acid.
  22. 22nd September 1980A pupil doubles the concentration of acid used in a reaction with a metal, keeping everything else the same. State what happens to the rate of the reaction.
  23. 23rd September 1980A pupil measures the mass of a metal washer five times using a balance and gets: 14.2 g, 14.5 g, 14.1 g, 14.6 g, 14.1 g. Calculate the mean mass, giving your answer to 3 significant figures.
  24. 24th September 1980Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The map was old and torn."
  25. 25th September 1980Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for 'the corridor at midnight.'
  26. 26th September 1980A writer describes a departure board as 'flickering through a list of cancellations like a nervous heartbeat.' Name the technique used.
  27. 27th September 1980A character 'held his breath without realising it' as he entered a dark passage. What does this suggest about his feelings?
  28. 28th September 1980A poem has four lines per stanza with the rhyme pattern ABAB. What is this pattern called?
  29. 29th September 1980Is the claim 'reading is obviously more rewarding than scrolling through a screen' a fact or an opinion?
  30. 30th September 1980A question asks you to explain "how the poet's feelings towards winter change across the poem." What should your answer focus on?