Lesson 10

🍦 Smart Ice Cream

Paul Jennings

🚀 Let's start:

Paul Jennings (1943–) is an English-born Australian children’s writer. His books mainly feature short stories that lead the reader through an unusual series of events that end with a twist. In 1985, Jennings' first book of short stories, Unreal, was published. The present story is an adaptation from one of his notable works.

🤝 Let's share:

Given below are the characteristics of one particular food item: 🧐
- ❄️ frozen
- 🍬 sweet
- 🌈 of different flavours and colours

Now pick out from the following which particular food item has all the above characteristics. Write its name in the given box: 📝

biscuit, Ice Cream, pickles

Fill in the following table with the names of the food items you eat at major meals: 🍽️

Breakfast	Lunch	Dinner

🍦 Ice Cream Delights!

3. Here are three types of ice creams:

(Image shows a waffle cone ice cream, a bowl of ice cream with a spoon, and an ice lolly.)

Given a choice, which type of ice cream would you prefer to have? 🤔

Let's read:

Well, I came top of the class again. I got one hundred out of one hundred for Maths. And one hundred out of one hundred for English. I have a very sharp brain, the best there is. There isn't one kid in the class who can come near me.

Every year I win a lot of prizes: top of the class, top of the school. I won a prize for spellings when I was only three years old. I am a terrific speller. I can spell every word that is.

Some kids don't like me; I know that for a fact. They say I'm a show-off. I don't care. They are just jealous because they are not as clever as me.

Last week something bad happened. Another kid got one hundred out of one hundred for Maths too. That never happened before—no one has ever done as well as me. A kid called Jerome Dadian beat me. I was sure he cheated. It had something to do with that ice cream. I was sure of it. I decided to find out what was going on.

Word-nest: 📚

📌 terrific: wonderful 📌 show-off: a person who tries to impress others by showing how good he/she is

Let's do: 📝

Activity 1 💡

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

Last week something bad happened.
All the students are not as clever as me.
The narrator decided to find out what was going on.
At the age of three, the narrator won a prize for spelling.
The narrator scored full marks in Maths.
The narrator's friends said that the narrator was a show-off.

Activity 2 ✍️

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

I was at the __________ of the class. I knew that I had a __________ brain. Other kids of the class are __________ __________ of me. Last week Jerome __________ 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?

📖 Let's continue:

It all started with the ice-cream man, Mr Peppi. He had a van which he parked outside the school. He sold ice cream, all different types. He had every flavour there is. He didn't like me very much. He told me once, "You think you are smart. One day you will be too smart."

I just laughed and walked off. I knew he wouldn't do anything. He was too soft-hearted. He was always giving free ice cream to kids who had no money. He felt sorry for poor people.

There were a lot of stories going round about that ice cream. People said that it was good for you. Some kids said that it made you better when you were sick. One of the teachers called it 'happy ice cream'. I didn't believe it; it never made me happy.

All the same, there was something strange about it. There was a kid at school who had a long nose. When he blew it you could hear it a mile away. Peppi felt sorry for him. He gave him a small green ice cream every morning, for

You won't believe what happened. His nose began to grow smaller. Every day it grew a bit smaller. In the end, it was just a normal nose. When it was the right size, Peppi stopped giving him the green ice creams. He gave a purple ice cream to a boy with pimples, and his pimples were cured!🍦

I made up my mind to put a stop to this ice cream business. Jerome Dadian had been eating ice cream the day he got one hundred for Maths. It must have been the ice cream making him smart. I wasn't going to have anyone doing as well as me. I was the smartest kid in school and that's the way I wanted it to stay. I wanted to get a look inside that ice cream van to find out what was going on.🤔

📝 Word-nest:

flavour: > a particular type of taste and smell
soft-hearted: > kind

💡 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 creams of only one flavour. []
(b) The ice cream man was very unkind. []
(c) The purple ice cream had no effect on the boy. []
(d) The speaker believed that there was no other boy smarter than him in school. []

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Activity 5 🧪

Answer the following questions in complete sentences: 📝

What did Mr. Peppi sell?
How did the speaker know that Mr. Peppi was a soft-hearted person?
What was special about the green ice cream?
Why did the speaker want to do better than everyone else in the class?

Let's continue: 📖

I knew where Peppi kept his van at night. I waited until about eleven o'clock at night. Then I crept out of the house and down to Peppi's van. There was no one around when I reached the van. I forced the door open and shone my torch around inside. I had never seen so many tubs of ice cream before. 🍦

There were apple 🍎 and banana 🍌, cherry 🍒 and mango 🥭, blackberry and watermelon 🍉 and about fifty other flavours! Right at the end of the van were four bins. It was just as I thought. These were his special flavours. Each one had a writing on the top. This is what they said:

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🍦 HAPPY ICE CREAM: for cheering people up.
👃 NOSE ICE CREAM: for long noses.
✨ PIMPLE ICE CREAM: for removing pimples.
🧠 SMART ICE CREAM: for getting smart.

Now I knew his secret. Dadian had been eating smart ice cream; that's how he got one hundred for Maths. Thereafter I decided to finish off the matter. 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. I decided to eat some. Not that I needed it— I was quite smart already. Anyway, I gave it a try. I ate the lot. Once I started I couldn't stop. It tasted good. It was delicious.

At last, I left the van and went home to bed, but I couldn't sleep. To tell the truth, I didn't feel too good. I think I have made a mistake.

It iz the nekst day now. Something iz happening to me. I don't feel quite az smart. I have bean trying to do a reel hard sum. It iz wun and wun. What duz wun and wun make? Iz it three or iz it for?

📖 Word-nest:

😋 delicious: having a very pleasant taste

📝 Activity 6

Fill in the chart with information from the text:

Type of Ice cream	Special quality
(a) Nose Ice Cream	For long noses.
(b) Smart Ice Cream	Helped to become smart.
(c) Happy Ice Cream	For cheering people up.
(d) Pimple Ice Cream	Cured pimples.

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Activity 7 🧠

Answer the following questions in complete sentences:

What did the speaker find inside Mr. Peppi's ice cream van?
What secret about Dadian did the speaker come to know?
Rewrite the last paragraph in normal English with correct spellings.
Why do you think there are peculiar spellings in the last paragraph? Give reasons for your answer.

Let's learn: 💡

In class V, you have learnt about 'Linkers'.

Read the following sentences:

I waited until about eleven o'clock at night. Then I crept out of the house and down to Peppi's van.
It was delicious. At last I left the van and went home to bed.

In the above sentences, 'Then' and 'At last' connect one sentence to the previous one.

Let's do: 👇

Activity 8(a) ✍️

Now underline in the following sentences the words which connect the sentences to the previous ones.

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

Thus we see that the above words join/connect the sentences to the previous ones. They are known as Linkers.

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Let's Do! 🚀

🎯 Activity 8(b)

Using the linkers from the Help Box, fill in the blanks:

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

_________ a piece of open ground is to be selected. _________ the soil is to be tilled. _________ a seed is to be planted _________ the sapling is to be watered daily. _________ green leaves appear.

✍️ Activity 8(c)

In each of the following sentences, supply a verb in agreement with the subject:

(i) Neither Raja nor Rani _________ invited to the party.
(ii) Two thirds of the building _________ been completed.
(iii) The dancer and the musician _________ great friends.
(iv) Mother along with her daughters _________ attending the programme.

📝 Activity 9

Make meaningful sentences of your own with the following words:

crept : _________________________________________
secret : _________________________________________
special : _________________________________________
decided : _________________________________________

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Let's Talk: 🗣️\n\nSuppose you have not done well in a particular subject. Discuss in groups what you would do to improve your performance in that particular subject.\n\n# Let's Do: 📝\n\n### 🟢 Activity 10(a)\n\nUsing the following hints write a story in about sixty words:\n\nA 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.\n\n### 🟢 Activity 10(b)\n\nYou 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.\n\n# Let's Work Together: 🤝\n\n1. Form four groups.\n2. Take 140 Ice Cream sticks. Make 14 bundles with the sticks, there being 10 sticks in each bundle.\n3. You can use adhesive to fix the 10 sticks in each bundle together.\n4. Fix 4 bundles to form a square.\n5. Attach 2 more bundles in the hollow at the middle of the square. The base of the pen-stand is formed.\n6. Now attach 4 bundles on 4 corners of the square.\n7. Fix 4 bundles horizontally against the 4 standing bundles. Your pen-stand is ready!\n\nPage 105

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Lesson 10 🍦 Smart Ice Cream