Basic Details
Word: Singapore
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: An island city-state in South-east Asia, at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula.
Word origin: From Malay Singapura, which comes from Sanskrit simha (lion) and pura (city): Lion City.
How to Spell Singapore
Syllables: sin - ga - pore
Tricky part: There is one n and one g, and the ending is -pore, like a pore in your skin, not -poor or -por.
Watch out for: singapoor, singapor, singgapore
Memory tip: Sing a pore: sing a song, then think of a tiny pore on your skin. Put them together and you have Singapore.
Usage Examples
Example 1: My uncle flew to Singapore for a three-day business meeting.
Example 2: Singapore has four official languages, and Tamil is one of them.
Example 3: Ships from all over the world stop at the busy port of Singapore.
Fun Fact
Singapore became an independent country in 1965 and is one of the few city-states in the world, along with Monaco and Vatican City.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Cookie
Fill in the missing letters:
S_ng_p_re
a) i, o, o
b) i, a, o
c) e, a, o
d) i, a, u
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b) i, a, o. Say it as sing-a-pore and write each part as you know it.
Mingle-Mangle
Unjumble the letters in the sentence to form a meaningful word:
Our class trip to anspogier included a night safari at the zoo.
a) pioneers
b) Singapore
c) spongier
d) sparing
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b) Singapore. You travel to a place, and the nine letters, with both an a and an o, make only Singapore.
Spell-o-Spell
Three of these words are misspelt and one is correct. Choose the meaning of the correct word:
1. Singapore 2. Indonesiya 3. Thialand 4. Malaysea
a) a country partly on the Malay Peninsula and partly on Borneo
b) a country of thousands of islands with Jakarta as its capital
c) an island city-state at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula
d) a country in South-east Asia with Bangkok as its capital
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c) an island city-state at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. Only Singapore is spelt as it is on a map; the others should be Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Singapore lies close to the ____.
a) equator
b) Tropic of Cancer
c) Arctic Circle
d) South Pole
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a) equator
2. Singapore is separated from Malaysia by the ____.
a) Strait of Gibraltar
b) Strait of Johor
c) Palk Strait
d) Bering Strait
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b) Strait of Johor
