Lesson 10 Smart Ice Cream by Paul Jennings | Textual Question Answers

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Lesson10 Smart Ice Cream

ACTIVITY 1

1. Rearrange the following sentences in the correct order and put the numbers in the given boxes :

1. Last week something bad happened. [5]

2. All the students are not as clever as me. [4]

3. The narrator decided to find out what was going on. [6]

4. At the age of three, the narrator won a prize for spelling. [2]

5. The narrator scored full marks in Maths. [1]

6. The narrator’s friends said that the narrator was a show-off. [3]

ACTIVITY 2

2. Fill in the blanks with the words given in the Help Box. (Some extra words are given)

I was at the top of the class. I knew that I had a sharp brain. Other kids of the class are jealous of me. Last week Jerome beat me. I became sad.

Help Box: Sharp, top, jealous, near, terrific, beat, show-off

ACTIVITY 3

3. Answer the following question :

“It had something to do with that ice cream.”Why did the speaker think so?

The speaker thought that the ice creams of Mr. Peppi contained some magical powers as he doubted his classmate Jerome Dadian became smart with the help of it. So the speaker made the above statement.

ACTIVITY 4

4. Write ‘T’ for true and ‘F’ for false in the given boxes. Give supporting statements for each of your answers :

a. Mr. Peppi sold ice creams of only one flavour. [F]

S.S. - “He sold ice cream, all different types. He had every flavour there is.”

b. The ice cream man was very unkind. [F]

S.S. -  “He was always giving free ice cream to kids who had no money. He felt sorry for poor people.”

c. The purple ice cream had no effect on the boy. [F]

S.S. -  “He gave a purple ice cream to a boy with pimples, and his pimples were cured!”

d. The speaker believed that there was no other boy smarter than him in school. [T]

S.S. - “I was the smartest kid in school and that’s the way I wanted it to stay.”

ACTIVITY 5

5. Answer the following questions in complete sentences :

a. What did Mr. Peppi sell?

Ans: Mr. Peppi sold ice creams of all different types. He had ice creams of every flavour.

b. How did the speaker know that Mr. Peppi was a soft-hearted person?

Ans:  Mr. Peppi always gave free ice creams to kids who had no money. He felt sorry for poor people. Seeing all these, the speaker knew that Mr. Peppi was a soft-hearted person.

c. What was special about the green ice cream?

Ans: The green ice cream had the special power to reduce a long nose to a shorter one if taken every day.

d. Why did the speaker want to do better than everyone else in the class?

Ans: The speaker considered himself to be the smartest kid in the school and that’s the way he wanted it to stay. He could not bear to see anyone else doing better than him.

ACTIVITY 6  

6. Fill in the chart with information from the text :

ACTIVITY 7

7. Answer the following questions in complete sentences :

a. What did the speaker find inside Mr. Peppi’s ice cream van?

Ans: He found tubs of ice creams of different flavours inside Mr. Peppi’s ice cream van. There were almost fifty flavours. Right at the end of the van there were also four bins of ice creams with special flavours.

b. What secret about Dadian did the speaker come to know?

Ans: He came to know that Dadian had been eating Smart ice cream, and that is how he got one hundred in Maths.

c. Rewrite the last paragraph in normal English with correct spellings.

Ans: It is the next day now. Something is happening to me. I don’t feel quite as smart. I have been trying to do a real hard sum. It is one and one. What does one and one make? Is it three or is it four?

d. Why do you think there are peculiar spellings in the last paragraph? Give reasons for your answer.

Ans: There are peculiar spellings in the last paragraph because it shows the overdose of taking Smart ice cream actually made the speaker stupid. That is why he made all those spelling errors and even could not do an easy sum.

ACTIVITY 8(a)

8.(a). Now underline in the following sentences the words which connect the sentences to the previous ones.

i. I put some sand that I carried with me into every bin in the van, except for the smart ice cream. Next, I looked at the smart ice cream.

ii. Dadian had been eating smart ice cream; that’s how he got one hundred for Maths. Thereafter, I decided to finish off the matter.

ACTIVITY 8(b)

8.(b). Using the linkers from the Help Box, fill in the blanks :

At first, a piece of open ground is to be selected.  Then the soil is to be tilled. Next, a seed is to be planted thereafter the sapling is to be watered daily. Finally, green leaves appear.

Help Box:  Finally, next, at first, then, thereafter

ACTIVITY  8(c)

8.(c). In each of the following sentences supply a verb in agreement with the subject :

i. Neither Raja nor Rani is invited to the party.

ii. Two-thirds of the building has been completed.

iii. The dancer and the musician are great friends.

iv. Mother along with her daughters is attending the programme.

ACTIVITY 9

9. Make meaningful sentences of your own with the following words :

crept: The man crept into the house.

secret: I have a secret wish./ He shares his secret with me.

special: Today is my special day. / He gave me a special gift.

decided: She decided to go there alone.

ACTIVITY 10(a)

10.(a). Using the following hints write a story in about sixty words :

a hare boasts how he can run fast - teases tortoise for his slow speed - both run a race - hare sees tortoise far behind - falls asleep midway - wakes up to see tortoise much ahead - hare’s last leap too late - tortoise beats him 

The Hare and the Tortoise

Once upon a time a Hare and a tortoise lived in a forest. The hare was very proud of his lightning-fast speed. He made fun of the tortoise for his slow pace (speed). One day the hare challenged the tortoise to have a race with him. The hare accepted the challenge. The race started. The hare ran very fast leaving the tortoise far behind in the blink of an eye. Confident in his abilities, the hare decided to take a break and rest under a shady tree. He fell asleep. The tortoise steadily made progress. Sometimes later he passed the sleeping hare and reached the winning post first. The hare woke up and ran as fast as he could. He saw that the tortoise was already at the winning post. He lost the race.

Moral: Slow and steady wins the race.

ACTIVITY 10(b)

10.(b). You have all seen an ice cream peddler pushing his cart either in front of your house or school. Write a paragraph in about sixty words on what you think he does after he has finished selling all his ice creams. 

After selling all his ice creams, the ice cream peddler finds solace in a nearby park. He takes a moment to rest on a bench, wiping the sweat from his brow. Then he packs up his cart and heads home. On his way home, he enters a shop and buys all the daily necessary items from the day’s profit. He also buys chocolates for his little girl.