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Name: ______________________ Date: ______________

1. Look at the three statements below: 18 ÷ a = 3 b x 7 = 28 12 - c = 7 Which letter has the Largest value? Tick the answer the below. a_____ b_____ c_____ 2. Look at the rectangle below.

What is the length of y if the area of the rectangle is 42cm²? Write your answer in the space below. ________cm 3. A cyclist takes 32 minutes to cycle 8000 metres at a steady speed. How long would he take to cycle 1 kilometre at the same steady speed? Write your answer in the space below. ________ minutes

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4. A cuboid has dimensions of 6.5 cm by 3.6 cm by 3 cm. What is the volume of this cuboid? Write your answer in the space below. _______________ cm³ 5. Fill in the grid below with the number of vertices, edges and faces for each of the following 3D shapes.

Shape Vertices Edges Faces

Cube

Triangular Prism

Square based pyramid



6. The table below shows the times taken by 6 cars in a the race.

Car Time

BMW 37 secs

Mercedes 42 secs

Skoda 31 sces

Ford 33 secs

Audi 29 secs

Seat 44 secs a) What is the mean (average) time taken by the 6 cars? Write your answer in the space below. ________ seconds b) What is the range for the times? ______________ 7. Look at the four numbers below: 37.74 3.774 0.3774 0.03774 The answer to the calculation below is one of the four numbers. Write the number you have chosen in the space below. 3.7 x 102 ÷ 100 = _______________



House on a Cliff Indoors the tang of a tiny oil lamp. Outdoors The winking signal on the waste of sea. Indoors the sound of the wind. Outdoors the wind. Indoors the locked heart and the lost key. Outdoors the chill, the void, the siren. Indoors The strong man pained to find his red blood cools, While the blind clock grows louder, faster. Outdoors Silently the moon, the garrulous tides she rules. Indoors ancestral curse-cum-blessing. Outdoors The empty bowl of heaven, the empty deep. Indoors a purposeful man who talks at cross Purposes, to himself, in a broken sleep. Louis Macneice 8. Some statements about the poem are below. Only one of these statements is true. Tick the true statement. Indoors the electric lamp is switched on.______ Out doors is the sound of the wind.______ The moon controls the tides.______ The man is sleeping soundly. ______



9. What sense had the clock in the poem lost? Write your answer in the space below. ____________________________________________________ 10. Look at the second verse of the poem. Find the word that is closest in meaning to the words: completely empty. Write the word in the space below. _______________________ 11. Look at the list of four verbs below. Write the past tense of each of the verbs in the space below. Be careful with your spelling. Play _________________ Cry _________________ Teach _________________ Peel_________________ 12. The words to, two and too sound the same but are used differently. Complete each sentence by writing the word to, two or too in each of the blank spaces. The cake at the party was split into ________ pieces. It is going ________ take _______ long ______ get ________the ________ year old's birthday. I won’t get any of the _______ pieces of cake.



13. Look at verse three of the poem. A word in verse three means the same as the words belong to the family in the past? Write the word in the space below. ________________________ 14. The words tiny, sea, sleep and silently are used in the poem. Tick the correct box to show whether each word is a noun, verb, adverb or adjective.

Word Adverb Noun Adjective Verb

Tiny

Sea

Sleep

Silently



15. Look at the sequence of numbers below. Complete the sequence by writing the correct numbers in the 2 spaces below. _____, 83, 89, 99, 113, _____ 16. A bottle containing 1.25 litres of orange juice costs £2.25. a) What is the cost of a quarter litre of orange juice? Write your answer in the space below. _______________ pence b) What is the cost of orange juice per litre? Write your answer in the space below. £_______________ 17. Circle the fraction below which is nearest in value to 60% ½ ⅔ ¾ ⅘



18. The bar chart below shows the sales for JD Sports over the months of January to June.

a) What was the total sales for JD Sports over the 6 months? Write your answer in the space below. _______________sales b) Over two consecutive months there is a 50% increase in the amount of sales by JD sports. Write the two days in the spaces below. ________________ and _______________ 19. What time is 3 hours and 37 minutes earlier than midnight? Write your answer using the 24 hour clock in the space below. ______________



The passage you are about to read contains five errors. Read the passage and then answer the questions that follow it.

The blue whale is a marine mammal. Its scientific name is Balaenoptera (line 1)

Musculus. Like all mammals, blue whales are warm-blooded, breath air and (line 2)

even have some hair on their bodies! (line 3)

Blue whales are known for their extremely large size – an average male weighs (line 4)

a huge 190,000 kgs (190 tonnes). Depite their huge size, blue whales have (line 5)

long and slender bodies like a submarine, This streamline shape lets them (line 6)

travel quickly and for long distances. A blue whale can swim up to 25 miles (line 7)

an hour when it needs to. (line 8)

Blue whales are actually closer to a grey colour with a lighter belly. Under the (line 9)

ocean though, the colour of the water and sunlight make them appear a dark (line 10)

shade of blue, which is were they get their name from. (line 11)

An adult blue whale measures up to 100 feet (30 metres) long. Can you (line 12)

imagine how long that is. About the length of 3 double decker buses! Thats (line 13)

quite long! Blue whale hearts weigh as much as a car and their tongues as much (line 14)

as a whole elephant! (line 15)

20. There is a spelling error in one of the lines of the passage. Tick the number of the line containing the spelling error. line 2 line 5 line 10 line 12



21. A word has been used incorrectly in the passage. Tick the number of the line containing the incorrect word. line 3 line 8 line 11 line 14 22. There is an apostrophe missing from one of the words in the passage. Tick the number of the line containing the word with the missing apostrophe. line 1 line 6 line 13 line 14 23. In one line of the passage a comma has been used incorrectly. A full stop rather than a comma should have been used. Tick the number of the line in which this error was made. line 3 line 6 line 10 line 13



24. A question mark is needed instead of a full stop on one line of the passage. Tick the number of the line in which the question mark is needed. line 2 line 8 line 13 line 15



25. Look at the quadrilateral below.

Work out the size of the angle x. Write your answer in the space below. ________ ⁰ 26. I have saved 20 coins in my money box. My money box contains at least 2 of each of the following coins: 1p 2p 5p 10p 20p 50p £1 £2 What is the smallest amount of money I could have in my money box? Write your answer in the space below. £ _______________



27. Look at the function machine below.

a) What answer does the function machine give when the starting number is 17? Write your answer in the space below ________ b) What is the starting number when the answer is 18.5? Write your answer in the space below ________ 28. Normal body temperature is 36.8⁰C. Ruth was walking in the snow and felt very cold. Her temperature had dropped to 34.2⁰C. How much was her temperature below normal? Write your answer in the space below. _______________ ⁰C



29. Mince costs £1.70 per kilogram. How much would 600g cost? Write your answer in the space below. £ _______________ 30. Derek is printing business cards. The cost of 90 business cards is £1.37. What is the cost of 990 business cards? Write your answer in the space below. £ _______________ 31. Clare and Grace agreed to share the cost of a holiday. The holiday cost £520. Clare paid 30% of the cost. How much did Grace pay? Write your answer in the space below. £ _______________



Fear I’m afraid, oh I am so afraid! The cold black fear is clutching me to-night As long ago when they would take the light And leave the little child who would have prayed, Frozen and sleepless at the thought of death. My heart that beats too fast will rest too soon; I shall not know if it be night or noon, -- Yet shall I struggle in the dark for breath? Will no one fight the Terror for my sake, The heavy darkness that no dawn will break? How can they leave me in that dark alone, Who loved the joy of light and warmth so much, And thrilled so with the sense of sound and touch, -- How can they shut me underneath a stone? Sara Teasdale 32. According to the poem, only one of the statements below is correct. Tick the correct sentence. The fear is holding the poet. _______ The poet has no fear. ______ The poet is in her grave. _______ 33. Which line of the poem tells us that the poet might find it hard to breathe? Write the line in the space below. ___________________________________________________________



34. Find the word in the poem closest in meaning to each of the following. Write your answer in the space below. Grasping ______________ First Light _______________ Elated ________________ 35. Look at the poem. What is the word mentioned that you might expect someone in a church to do? Write your answer in the space below. __________________ 36. There is an apostrophe in the word I’m. Write contractions for the words below. Be careful with your spelling. Is not ________________ Have not _________________ She has __________________



37. Children is the plural form of the singular noun child. Write the singular form of each of the following plural nouns. Take care with your spelling. Write your answer in the space provided. Wolves ______________ sheep ______________ mice ______________ Fish ______________ 38. This poem rhymes. Which word from the poem rhymes with break? Write the word in the space below. ____________________



39. Look at the shape below.

a) Find the perimeter of the shape. Write your answer in the space below. _______________ cm b) Find the area of the shape above. Write your answer in the space below. _______________cm² 40. An ice skater spins on the ice. He turns 4 ⅔ times before stopping. How many degrees has he turned through? Write your answer in the space below. _______________⁰



41. John goes to the shop and buys thirty 10p mixes, three magazines for £1.23 each and a bottle of lucozade for £1.27. He pays with a £10 note. How much change does he get? Write your answer in the space below. £ _______________ 42. I am facing West. Through how many degrees must I turn through to face North West? There are two possible answers. Write your answers in the space below. ________⁰ , ________ ⁰ 43. Write 137 hours in days and hours. Write your answer in the space below. ________ days and ________ hours



44. The rectangle below is divided into squares of equal area.

What percentage of the rectangle is shaded? Write your answer in the space below. _______________ % 45. Look at the list of 8 numbers in the box. You must select 3 numbers from the list to complete the statements below. For each statement select a number which makes the statement true. Write your answers in the spaces below.

17 61 44 52 33 14 5 27 a) ________ is a factor of 56. b) ________ is a multiple of 13. c) ________ is a cube number.



Charlie Bucket stared around the gigantic room in which he now found himself. The place was like a witch’s kitchen! All about him black metal pots were boiling and bubbling on huge stoves, and kettles were hissing and pans were sizzling, and strange iron machines were clanking and spluttering, and there were pipes running all over the ceiling and walls, and the whole place was filled with smoke and steam and delicious rich smells. Mr Wonka himself had suddenly become even more excited than usual, and anyone could see that this was the room he loved best of all. He was hopping about among the saucepans and the machines like a child among his Christmas presents, not knowing which thing to look at first. He lifted the lid from a huge pot and took a sniff; then he rushed over and dipped a finger into a barrel of sticky yellow stuff and had a taste; then he skipped across to one of the machines and turned half a dozen knobs this way and that; then he peered anxiously through the glass door of a gigantic oven, rubbing his hands and cackling with delight at what he saw inside. Then he ran over to another machine, a small shiny affair that kept going phut-phut-phut-phut-phut, and every time it went phut, a large green marble dropped out of it into a basket on the floor. 46. Which word in paragraph two tells us that Mr Wonka looked through the oven door with concern?Write your answer in the space below. ____________________________________________________ 47. Write the words below in alphabetical order in the space provided. Boiling Black Bubbling Best Basket ______________________________________________________________________



48. Based on what you have read, tick the statement(s) that are true. Charlie Spade was in the room. ______ The smells turned Mr Wonka’s stomach. ______ Mr Wonka was like a Tortoise. ______ The machine produced green marbles. ______ 49. Find the word closest in meaning to each of the words below. The three words you’re searching for are in paragraph one of the passage. Write your answers in the spaces below. Big _______________ Tasty_______________ Coughing _______________ 50. Circle the best word to complete the sentences below related to the above text. Mr Wonka ran / danced / walked around the room. The pots and pans were bubbling and smelt horrible / delicious / unusual. The machine that produced the marbles was a huge / tiny / quiet contraption.



51. The word anxiously is used in the passage. This is an adverb. Write the adverb for each of the following words below in the space provided. Be careful with your spelling. Tidy _______________ Happy _______________ Know ________________ 52. He lifted the lid from a huge pot and took a sniff. There are three verbs in this sentence. Write the three verbs in the spaces below. _______________, _______________, _______________ 53. There are two similes used in the text. Write one of the similes in the space below. ________________________________________________



Answers 1) a 2) 7cm 3) 4 mins 4) 40.2cm 5) Cube = 8 Vertices, 12 Edges, 6 Faces Triangular Prism =6 Vertices, 9 Edges, 5 Faces

Square based Pyramid = 5 Vertices, 8 Edges, 5 Faces 6) a) 36 seconds b) 15 7) 3.774 8) The moon controls the tides. 9) Sight 10) Void 11) Played, cried, taught, peeled 12) Two, to, too, to, to , two, two 13) Ancestral 14) Tiny = Adjective, Sea = Noun, Sleep = verb, Silently = adverb 15) 81, 131 16) a) 45p b) £1.80 17) ⅔ 18) a) 2650 b) March and April 19) 20:23 20) Line 5 21) Line 11 22) Line 13 23) Line 6 24) Line 13 25) 68⁰ 26) £7.80 27) a) 7.5 b) 61 28) 2.6⁰C 29) £1.02 30) £15.07 31) £364 32) The fear is holding the poet. 33) Yet shall I struggle in the dark for breath? 34) Clutching, Frozen, Dawn, Thrilled



35) Prayed 36) Isn’t Haven’t She’s 37) Wolf, sheep, mouse, fish 38) Sake 39) a) 34cm b) 30cm² 40) 1680⁰ 41) £2.04 42) 45⁰ and 315⁰ 43) 5 days and 17 hours 44) 55% 45) a) 14 b) 52 c) 27 46) Anxiously 47) Basket, Best, Black, Boiling, Bubbling 48) The machine produced green marbles. 49) Gigantic, Delicious, Sputtering 50) Danced, delicious, tiny 51) Tidily, happily, knowingly 52) Lifted, took, sniff 53) Like a witch’s kitchen. Or Like a child among Christmas presents.



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