Smart Ice Cream| Paul Jennings | West Bengal board Class 6 English textbook solutions| Question and Answer of activity task.
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Activity 1
Rearranges the following sentences in the correct order and put the numbers in the given boxes:
(1) Last week something bad happened.
(2) All the student are to find out what was going on.
(3) The narrator decided to find out what was going on.
(4) At the age of three, the narrator won a prize for spelling.
(5) The narrator scored full marks in Maths.
(6) The narrator's friend that the narrator was show-off.
Ans:-
(1) - (5)
(2) -- (4)
(3)--(6)
(4) - (2)
(5) - (1)
(6) - (3)
Also read "The Rainbow" question and answer.
Activity 2
Fill in the blanks with given in the Help Box. (Some extra words are given)
I was........ at the class.
I knew that I had a.......... brain.
Other kinds of the class are.......... of me.
Last of the week Jerome.........
me. I became sad.
Help Box: Sharp, top, jealous, near, terrific, beat, show-off
Ans:-
1- top
2- sharp
3- jealous
4 - beat
Activity 3
Answer the following question:
"I had something to do that ice cream." Why did the speaker think so?
Ans:-
The speaker thought so because he had seen Jerome Dadian eating ice the day he got hundred in maths.
Activity 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 cream of only one flavour.
(b) The ice cream man was very unkind.
(c) The speaker believed that
there was no other boy smarter than him in school.
Ans:-
(a) False
He had every flavour there is.
(b) False
He was too soft-hearted.
(c) False
He gave purple ice-cream to a boy and his pimples were cured.
(d) True
I was the smartest kid in school.
Activity 5
Answer the following question in complete sentences:
(a) What did Mr. Peppi sell?
Ans:
Mr. Peppi sold different kinds of ice cream.
(b) How did the speaker known that Mr. Peppi was a soft- hearted person?
Ans:-
The speaker knew that Mr. Peppi was a soft-hearted person as he was always giving free ice cream to kids who had no money..
(c) What was special about the green ice cream?
Ans:-
By eating the green ice, the long nose of a kid became just a normal nose.
(d) Why did the speaker want to do better than everyone else in the class?
Ans:-
The speaker wanted to do wanted to stay as the smartest kid in the school forever.
Activity 6
Fill in the chart with information from the text?
Ans:-
(a) Special Quality - helped t make long nose just normal
(b) Type of Ice Cream - Smart Ice Cream
(c) Special Quality - Helped to cheer the people.
(d) Type of Ice Cream - Pimple/Purple Ice cream
Activity 7
Answer the following in complete sentences:
(a) What did the speaker find inside Mr. Peppi's ice cream van ?
Ans:-
The speaker found many types of cream inside Mr. Peppi's ice cream van.
(b) What secret about Dadian did the speaker come to know?
Ans:-
The speaker came to know that Dadian got one hundred in maths by eating smart ice cream.
(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 really hard sum. It is one and one. What does one and one mak Is it three or is it four ?
(d) Why do you think there peculiar spellings in the paragraph?
Ans:-
The peculiar spellings show the change of the narrator from the smartest boy of the school to an ordinary one. Now he commits silly mistakes. He cannot but see others beating him. He tried to he too smart, but ended up as a very ordinary kid.
Activity 9
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.
Ans:-
A Hare and a Tortoise
Once upon a time there were a hare and a tortoise in a forest.The hare always boasted that he can run fast. Once he teased the tortoise for his slow speed. The tortoise became angry. He said," Let's run a race." So, one morning they started running a race.During the race the hare saw the tortoise far behind. So, he took a rest for a while and fell asleep. But the tortoise continued the race. When the hare woke up, he saw the tortoise much ahead of him. The hare's last leap was too late. The tortoise beat him finally.
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