Can you guess the place? 😉🦾🎬

Singapore is an Asian city-state. There are 4 official languages: English, Tamil, Malay and Mandarin Chinese.

They also have a Singaporean slang called: Singlish 😃

Singapore is situated at the tip of the Malay peninsula. It has a tropical climate so travellers like visiting it all year around. (20-30 Celsius degrees = 68-86 Farenheit, rainy season: Nov&Dec)

The country includes the island of Singapore and approx. 58 smaller islands. Its capital is also called Singapore and it occupies around a third of the main island. Singapore is a combination of the Western-style development and the Eastern-style calm.

“Chope” your seat!

Singaporeans like reserving their seats in hawker centres by placing paper tissue packets, umbrellas on the chairs. This is a fuss-free way of understanding which seats are free or taken.

Have you ever been to a hawker centre? Do you know what they are?

Food courts that offer numerous different cuisines at affordable prices. Eating at hawker centres is an important part of the Singaporean way of life. If you love food, you really should eat like a local and try the hawker centres.

Do you want to know some of the most popular hawker centres? You will find a list at the end of the page. Enjoy reading 🤠

Did you know?

excellent infrastructure, very safe, clean, green environment
smoke-free and hygienic public places
reliable railway and subway system
state-of-the-art cruise terminal
cheap taxi prices, great public transport in general
warm weather with evenly distributed rainfalls throught the year
the world’s second busiest port after Rotterdam
minimal unemployment
average per capita income over US$12,000

The districts of Singapore:

Downtown Singapore = the Colonial District
Little India
Chinatown
the Arab Quarter

North: nature preserves: Bukit Timah and the Central Catchment Area (Singapore Zoological Gardens)

East coast: good seafood restaurants, sandy beach.

58 islands and islets within Singaporean waters – all of them can be reached; Sentosa is one of the most popular islands for daytrips (amusement island)

Places to visit:

Marina Bay Sands
Gardens by the Bay
Supertree Grove
ArtScience Museum
Merlion
Clark Quay
Singapore Flyer
Orchard Road
Singapore Botanics Garden
Zoo Singapore (Night Safari)
Singapore cable car
Sentosa
and much more…

Location: Southeastern Asia, islands between Malaysia and Indonesia

Geographic coordinates: 1 22 N, 103 48 E

Area: total: 647.5 sq km

Land: 637.5 sq km

Water: 10 sq km

Land boundaries: 0 km

Coastline: 193 km

Elevation extremes:

Lowest point: Singapore Strait 0 m

Highest point: Bukit Timah 166 m

Singlish

Singapore English usually comes from other languages spoken in Singapore, especially Malay and Hokkien.

Examples:

habis – finished
makan – to eat
chope – to reserve something
cheem – difficult, complicated
ang mo – a white person
rojak – mixed, a mix of
liao – finished, the end
kiasu – afraid to lose mentality

Speakers of Singlish usually end their sentences with a distinctive exclamation. The three most common ones are ah, lah, ley and what.

Examples:

OK lah, bye bye.
Don’t like that lah.
You are going there ah?
No parking lots here, what.
The price is too high for me lah.
And then how many rooms ah?
It is very troublesome ley.
Don’t be like that ley!
I’m not at home lah. That’s why ah.

Source:

https://www.singaporeexpats.com/about-singapore/culture-and-language.htm

It’s time for some fun 🙌🎬😎👨‍🎓👩‍🎓🏅

Test your memory 🤠

Do you remember the official languages of Singapore?
What is their slang called?
Where is it situated?
Are there any rainy seasons? When?
Is it an island or a peninsula?
What is the capital called?
What are the hawker centres? Can you say an example?
How would you reserve your seat in a hawker centre?

Let’s play and learn 😃🦾

Can you name some of the districts of Singapore?
Is Singapore a “fine” city? What does fine mean? Why is it called a fine city? Can you say some examples for fines?
What is the highest point of Singapore?
How do you say in Singlish “the end”, “finished”?
What do the following sentences mean? “I’m not at home lah. That’s why ah.”

Singapore Vocabulary Activity Word Search Puzzle »

Singapore Vocabulary 2 Crossword Puzzle »

Singapore Tour Word Search Puzzle »

ENJOY LEARNING! SEE YOU IN CLASS 🙌🦾👩‍🎓👨‍🎓😉👌🎈

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Vocabulary

to guess – to give an answer to a question when you do not have all the facts and so cannot be certain if you are right

official – agreed to or arranged by people in positions of authority

slang – very informal language that is usually spoken rather than written, used especially by particular groups of people

island – a piece of land completely surrounded by water

islet – a small island

peninsula – a long piece of land that sticks out from a larger area of land into the sea or into a lake

capital – a city that is the centre of government of a country or smaller political area

development – the process in which someone or something grows or changes and becomes more advanced

to reserve something – If you reserve something such as a seat on an aircraft or a table at a restaurant, you arrange for it to be kept for your use

fuss – a show of anger, worry, or excitement that is unnecessary or greater than the situation deserves

affordable – not expensive

state-of-the-art – very modern and using the most recent ideas and methods

port – a town by the sea or by a river that has a harbour, or the harbour itself

unemployment – the number of people who do not have a job that provides money

district – an area of a country or town that has fixed borders that are used for official purposes, or that has a particular feature that makes it different from surrounding areas

preserve – a reserve (= an area of land kept in its natural state, especially for wild animals to live in and be protected)

amusement – an activity that you can take part in for entertainment

For more details use the Cambridge Dictionary online: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/

As I promised you 😉 : Some of the best hawker centres:

Central:

Newton Food Centre. 500 Clemenceau Avenue North #01-05, Singapore 229495. Daily noon-2am. (Near Newton MRT station.) This is one of the most popular eating spots on the island (Yes! Singapore is an island ☺) Watch the film “Crazy Rich Asians” to get an idea of the place.
Amoy Street Food Centre. 7 Maxwell Road, Singapore 069111. Daily 6.30am-9pm. (Near Telok Ayer and Tanjong Pagar MRT stations.)
Maxwell Food Centre. 1 Kadayanallur Street, Singapore 069184. Daily 8-2am. (Near Chinatown, Telok Ayer and Tanjong Pagar MRT stations.)
Lau Pa Sat. 18 Raffles Quay, Singapore 048582. Select stalls are open 24 hours daily. (Near Raffles Place, Tanjong Pagar, Telok Ayer and Downtown MRT stations.)
Tekka Centre. 60 Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 229900. Daily 6.30am-9pm. (Above Little India MRT station.)
Adam Road Food Centre. 2 Adam Rd, Singapore 289876. Daily 7am-10pm. (Beside Botanic Gardens MRT station.)

Southern:

Tiong Bahru Market. 30 Seng Poh Road, Singapore 168898. Daily 6am-11pm. (Between Outram and Tiong Bahru MRT stations.)
ABC Brickworks Food Centre. 6 Jalan Bukit Merah, Singapore 150006. Daily 8am-11pm. (Near Redhill and Queenstown MRT stations.)

Eastern:

Chomp Chomp Food Centre. 20 Kensington Park Road, Singapore 557269. Daily 4pm-12.30am. (Take a bus from Serangoon MRT station.)
Old Airport Road Food Centre. 51 Old Airport Road, Singapore 390051. Daily 6am-11pm. (Beside Dakota MRT station.)
Golden Mile Food Centre. 505 Beach Road, Singapore 199583. Daily 7-1am. (Between Nicoll Highway and Lavender MRT stations.)
The Bedok Marketplace. 348 Bedok Rd, Singapore 469560. Daily 11.30am-midnight. (Take buses 2, 9 or 48 from Tanah Merah MRT station.)

For further info and details please have a look at the following website: https://www.visitsingapore.com/editorials/the-street-food-of-singapore/ Enjoy reading! 👀

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