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WorksheetsSingh Song by Daljit Nagra
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Who wrote the poem 'Singh Song'?
Owen Sheers
Lord Byron
Maura Dooley
Daljit Nagra
In which year was Daljit Nagra born?
1966
1974
2001
1822
Mr Singh manages a corner shop but at every opportunity he wants to.....
Go to the gym
Work on his computer
Go upstairs to see his new bride
Go and visit his family
The speaker in the poem is Mr Singh but who is he talking too?
His bride
The shoppers
His mum
His daddy
The use of the term 'daddy' could be a term......
to reflect the love and affection for his father
a criticism of how his father still treats him like a child
to make the rhyming pattern of the poem successful
to sound appealing to his new wife
What is the pattern of the sari in this poem
floral
polka dot
striped
tartan
What is the purpose of the phonetic spelling throughout the poem?
So that you know the poem is about an indian family
To make the rhyming scheme sound like a nursery rhyme
It makes the reader read it like an indian person and Nagra wanted the reader to engage with the indian accent
So that the poem sounded romantic and loving
At the end of Stanza 2, Nagra refers to "Putney", why?
He wanted the reader to imagine boats being rowed on the Thames
He is trying to hint to the reader the location of the corner shop
In Punjabi, Putney means boat
In Punjabi, Putney means wife
The MAIN relationship (choose one only) being explored in the poem is between....
The husband and his shoppers
The husband and wife
The husband and his mum
The husband and his daddy
Stanzas 5-7 all begin 'my bride' is this because.....
All of these verses are about the marriage & the husband's increasing obsession with his wife & neglect of the shop
The speaker wants to emphasise that the poem is about his wife
The writer couldn't get the rhyming pattern to work
He has realised that he has written a lot about the shop but not much about his wife
"I do di lock cos up di stairs is my newly bride" means....
Singh has finished his working day and is now going for dinner
It is 9pm and it is time for the corner shop to be closed and for him to go to bed
Singh is showing his willingness to rebel against his father, in order to please his wife (and himself)
Singh is having dinner upstairs with his new bride
'Tiny eyes ov a gun and di tummy ov a teddy' are....
similes
alliteration
metaphors
juxtaposition
What do the shoppers think of Singh's shop?
They love the shop so much that they make up a sing song rhyme to describe it
They think the shop is dirty and badly stocked, many of the goods have gone bad or out of stock
Singh has been away and the shoppers have missed him
They think the shop is open too long and Singh's father makes him work too hard
Singh uses contrasting words to describe the worth of the shop versus the worth of his wife. Which pair of words best describes this in the poem
meat and cheese
price and priceless
half-price and priceless
chapatti and chutney
The wife is upstairs whilst Singh works in the shop, is she.......
On a date site on the computer chatting up other men
Working on a date site on the computer because it is her job
Looking up the prices of meat and cheese on a website
Trying to attract two Sikh lovers and referring to that as netting two cats
