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November 1989 5-a-day

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November 1989

30 sheets · 150 questions · Years 7-8

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Every sheet in November 1989

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

  1. 1st November 1989Choose the correct homophone: ___ going to be late if the bus does not arrive soon. (Whose / Who's)
  2. 2nd November 1989Identify the subordinate clause in this sentence: Because the fire alarm sounded, everyone left the building calmly.
  3. 3rd November 1989What is the term for a poem that continues a sentence or idea from one line to the next without a pause?
  4. 4th November 1989Give one feature, other than headings, that a factual magazine article might use to help organise information for the reader.
  5. 5th November 1989Find the midpoint of the line segment joining (-4, 2) and (6, -8).
  6. 6th November 1989A bag contains 12 red counters, 15 blue counters and 9 green counters only. A counter is picked at random. Work out the probability that it is blue, giving your answer as a decimal to 3 significant figures.
  7. 7th November 1989Find 3/8 of 64.
  8. 8th November 1989Two joggers start together at a park gate. One returns to the gate every 18 minutes, the other every 24 minutes. After how many minutes will they next be at the gate together?
  9. 9th November 1989Two parallel lines are cut by a transversal. One of the angles formed is 63 degrees. State the size of the co-interior (allied) angle on the same side of the transversal, and explain why.
  10. 10th November 1989In 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 November 1989A 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 November 1989Work out the mean of 8, 12, 15, 9 and 11.
  13. 13th November 1989Find 25% of 84 pounds.
  14. 14th November 1989Explain why muscles must work in antagonistic pairs rather than alone.
  15. 15th November 1989State whether a solution with pH 3 is acidic, neutral, or alkaline.
  16. 16th November 1989State one way, other than increasing the current, to increase the strength of an electromagnet made from a coil of wire around an iron core.
  17. 17th November 1989State what happens to the current in a series circuit if an extra identical bulb is added, assuming the battery voltage stays the same.
  18. 18th November 1989Name the organ system that carries electrical signals around the body to allow a fast reflex reaction, such as pulling a hand away from something hot.
  19. 19th November 1989Name the force that pulls all objects with mass towards each other, keeping planets in orbit.
  20. 20th November 1989On a graph of temperature (y-axis) against time (x-axis), a straight line rises from (0 s, 20 degrees C) to (40 s, 60 degrees C). Calculate the gradient of this line, and state what it represents.
  21. 21st November 1989A 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 November 1989A 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 November 1989In 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 November 1989Name the technique used in this slogan: Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.
  25. 25th November 1989Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for 'the alleyway at dusk.'
  26. 26th November 1989Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The station was BUSY."
  27. 27th November 1989Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for "the fruit stall."
  28. 28th November 1989A fair six-sided dice is rolled once. Find the probability of rolling a number greater than 4.
  29. 29th November 1989A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 5 cm and 12 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
  30. 30th November 1989The nth term of a sequence is 4n + 3. Work out the 20th term.