Smart Ice Cream
Textual Questions & Answers
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Activity - 1
Rearrange the following sentences in the correct
order and put the numbers in the given boxes:
1. Last week something had 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 Math. ( 1 )
6. The narrator’s friends said that the narrator was a
show-off. ( 3 )
Activity - 2
Fill in the blanks with words given in the Help
Boxes. (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
Answer the following question:
“It had something to do with that ice
cream.” Why did the speaker think so?
Ans: The speaker thought
so because Jerome Dadian had been eating an ice-cream the day he got one
hundred for math.
Activity - 4
Write “T” for true and “F” for false in the given
boxes. Give supporting statements for each of your answers:
a. Mr. Peppy sold ice creams of only one flavor.
Ans: False , Supporting Statement: “He had every
flavour ….”
b. The ice cream man was very unkind.
Ans: False , Supporting Statement: “He was too soft-hearted.”
c. The purple ice cream had no effect on the boy.
Ans: False , Supporting Statement: “He gave a
purple ice cream to a boy with pimples, and his pimple was cured!”
d. The speaker believed that there was no other boy smarter than him in
school.
Ans: True , Supporting Statement: “I was the
smartest kid in school and that’s the way I wanted to stay.”
Activity - 5
Answer the following questions in complete
sentences:
a. What did Mr. Peppi sell?
Ans: Mr. Peppi sold ice
cream of different types and flavours.
b. How did the speaker know that Mr. Peppi was a soft-hearted person?
Ans: The speaker knew
that Mr. Peppi was a soft-hearted person because he was always giving free ice
cream to kids who had no money.
c. What was special about the green ice cream?
Ans: The green ice
cream had the ability to make a long nose normal.
d. Why did the speaker want to do better than everyone else in the class?
Ans: The speaker
considered himself the smartest kid in the class. As a result he wanted to do
better than everyone else in the class.
Activity - 6
Fill in the chart with information from the text:
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Type of Ice Cream
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Special quality
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(a) Nose Ice
Cream
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made a long nose normal.
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(b) Smart Ice Cream
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helped to become smart.
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(c) Happy
Ice Cream
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cheered people up.
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(e) Pimple Ice Cream
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cured pimples.
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Activity - 7
Answer the following questions in complete
sentences:
a. What did the speaker find inside Mr. Peppi’s ice cream van?
Ans: The speaker found
many tubs of ice-cream of different flavours inside Mr. Peppi’s Ice cream van.
b. What secret about Dadian did the speaker come to know?
Ans: The speaker came
to know the secret about Dadian that he had been eating smart ice cream, thus
he got one hundred for 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: The speaker was
quite smart already. Still he ate smart ice cream out of jealousy. And the ice
cream made him extra smart. So he forgot the easy things he knew and started to
spell some words in a peculiar manner.
Activity - 8 (a)
Now
underline in the following sentences the words which connect the sentences to
the previous cost.
1. 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.
2. Dadian had been eating smart ice cream; that’s how he got
one hundred for Mahts. Thereafter, I decided to finish off
the matter.
Activity - 8 (b)
Using the linkers from the Help Boxe, 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)
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
Make meaningful sentences of your own with the
following words:
Crept: He crept into the cave for the first time.
Secret: Don’t tell anyone your secret.
Special: My family is always very special to me.
Decided: I have decided to buy this flat.
