Day 1 Backseat Sat-Nav.

Q 1. The new car was in fact an old car and could even be described as a wreck on wheels. It was a horrible dirty brown colour.

Q 2. The salesman threw in a Backseat Sat-Nav for free.

Q 3. It was called a Backseat Sat-Nav because it is a pun on the term backseat driver who refers to a passenger who always gives instructions whether the driver wants them or not.

Q 4. The Backseat Sat-Nav called Dad sawdust for brains when he didn’t turn left.

Q 5. Just as the narrator said the car rubbish it broke down which really proved the narrator’s point.

Notes

Considering means thinking carefully about something.

Roaring like a banshee refers to a female spirit that was supposed to screech when someone died. Banshee comes from an Irish term meaning woman of the fairies. 

Sat- Nav stands for satellite navigation.

Day 2 A Good Impression

Q 1. The Impressionist first exhibited their work in Paris.

Q 2.  At first their work was considered revolutionary and it wasn’t well received by the critics. People laughed at their work and called it childish.

Q 3. Claude Monet, Paul Cezanne and Pierre -Auguste Renoir are three Impressionist painters.

Q 4. The Impressionists differed from previous artists as their paintings were full of light and shadow in contrast to the tradition of dark and formal art. They painted outdoors and painted scenes as they were whereas the artists before them worked indoors with carefully posed models.

Q 5. Claude Monet painted the lily pond in his garden eighteen times.

Connection

Vincent Van Gogh (p91) was a post-impressionist painter.  He also worked outdoors and painted the world as he saw it too.

Day 3 Oh, I Wish I’d Looked After Me Teeth

Q 1. The poet mentions the following sweets; toffees, gobstoppers, liquorice allsorts, peanut brittle, lollies and sherbet dabs.

Q 2. The poet uses the word choppers instead of teeth.

Q 3. The poet doesn’t pronounce the letter g at the end of words.

Q 4. By using the word ‘reckoning’ the poet is referring to the day of reckoning which means a time when the mistakes of the past must be punished or paid for.

Q 5. In my opinion this poem should be read aloud because the poet wrote it to be performed to an audience as a funny poem. She uses rhyming phrases and direct speech to make it a lively poem best appreciated when read aloud.

Day 4 Seriously Funny

Q 1. An oxymoron is a phrase which combines words which seem to contradict each other.

Q 2. ‘Pretty ugly’ is an oxymoron because the two words are opposites but in this case the word ‘pretty’ is used to mean ‘quite’.

Q 3. W.C. Fields said “The best cure for insomnia is a lot of sleep”.

Q 4. Oscar Wilde could resist everything except temptation.

Q 5. George Bernard Shaw’s oxymoron means that history keeps repeating itself and we don’t learn from the mistakes of the past.