CLASS V - ENGLISH - 1st Poem - ICE-CREAM MAN
Gist of the Poem :-
This is a beautiful poem written by Rachel Field.
This poem describes the scenery of Summer season. In the summer , when the environment becomes very hot and it’s very critical to go outside of our home; at that time the ice-cream man brings a joyful moment for the children. He comes with his little cart , full of cold drinks and ice-creams of different flavours. Children gather around him like honeybees gather around the honeycomb. His cart is compared to a flower bed. As a flower bed is consisting of flowers of different colours, like that the cart is consisting of cold drinks and ice- cream flavours of different colours.
NEW WORDS AND MEANINGS:-
Blaze = bright flame or fire (Noun)
Shine brightly (Verb)
In summer days, the bricks outside of our home become blazes of heat. (Noun)
Dry wood make a good Blaze. (Noun)
The candle is blazing inside the room. (Verb)
Cart = a vehicle with two or four wheels that is used to transport things (Noun)
The man is coming with a cart to our colony to collect garbage. (Noun)
Trundling = move slowly on wheels (Verb)
Moving on small broad wheels(verb)
The Ice-cream man comes trundling down the street in summer days. (verb)
Beneath = under/below (Preposition)
The cat is sitting beneath the table.
I kept a letter beneath a pile of papers.
Mound = heap, pile (Noun)
There is a mound of coins on the table.
Chilly= very cold (Adjective)
We drink chilly things in the summer.
Frosty-fizz= chilled drink, cold drink (Noun)
Making a hissing, bubbling sound (Verb)
We drink frosty-fizz in summer.
Cluster= a group of similar things (Noun)
Gather around (verb)
A cluster of students stood around the table. (Noun)
A cluster of honeybees are buzzing around the flower. (Noun)
We clustered around the teacher to show him homework. (Verb)
Rhyming Words :-
sight ____________ white
Drink ____________ Pink
peas ____________ bees
Say the opposites:-
CIRCLE THE ODD ONE OUT:-
Make sentences using the words:-
Write any three mm, oo, ll, tt words:-
FILL THE SUITABLE ADJECTIVES:
Say true or False .:-
1. Which are the hottest months in the year?
- April, May and June are the hottest months in the year.
2. Which are the coldest months in the year?
- December and January are the coldest months in the year.
3. In which season ice cream is popular?
- Ice-cream is popular in summer season.
4. Who feels joyful on seeing the Ice-cream Man?
- Children feel joyful on seeing the ice-cream man.
5. Name the different flavours of ice cream the Ice-cream Man has in his cart.
-The ice-cream man has vanilla, chocolate and strawberry flavours of ice-cream in his cart.
6. What are the two things that the Ice-cream Man is selling?
-The ice-cream man is selling ice-cream and chilled drinks from the bottles of frosty-fizz.
7. What is the ice-cream cart compared to in the poem?
-The ice-cream cart has been compared to a flower bed in the poem.
8. What does as thick as honey bees mean?
-The way honeybees stick to flowers to suck nectar same way the crowd of Children gathered around the ice-cream cart.
9. What is the joyful sight for the children?
-The Ice-cream man fills the cones with mounds of cooling brown and white. Such a scene beneath a round umbrella becomes a joyful sight for the children.
10. What colours are used in the poem?
- The colours used in the poem are green, orange, brown, white and pink.
11. Why the ice-cream cart is compared with a flower bed?
- Flower bed is consisting of flowers of different colours. Like that the ice-cream man’s cart is full of ice-cream flavours and cold drinks of different colours. So the cart is compared with a flower bed.
12. Write the rhyming words from the poem.
Heat-street, Light-white, Drink-pink, Peas-honeybees
13. What do the following words describe in the poem.
Joyful sight
Little cart
Round umbrella
14. What are the describing words used in the poem for the following?
Cooling, Brown and white mounds
Vanilla, Chocolate, Strawberry flavours
Thick cluster
15. Write a paragraph about “Ice-cream”
Ice cream is a sweetened frozen food typically eaten as a snack or Dessert. It is usually made from dairy products such as milk and cream and often Combined with fruits and other ingredients and flavours. There are many flavours Such as vanilla, chocolate, strawberry etc.
16. Write about some of the exciting and enjoyable things that one can do in the winter season.
-Drinking& eating hot soup
-Going out on picnics with parents or friends
-Taking bath in hot water
17. List out Summer activities.
-Swimming
-Reading books
-Playing cricket in the evening
18. Now group these activities into indoor and outdoor activities:-
Indoor activities. Outdoor activities
-Do the exercises &Yoga. - Playing in the warmth of sun
-Reading books. - Sitting leisurely in sun
-Drawing
19. Read the stanzas and answer the questions below:-
His cart might be a flowerbed,
Of roses and sweet peas
The way the children cluster round
As thick as honeybees.
A. What does ‘his’ stand for in the poem?
- His stands for the ice-cream man.
B. What does he bring in the cart?
- He brings ice-cream in his cart.
C. Who surrounds him and why?
The children surrounds him to buy ice-creams.
D. What is the flowerbed full of?
- A flower bed is full of colourful flowers.
20. Read the following line and answer the questions that follow.
Beneath his round umbrella,
Oh, what a joyful sight,
To see him fill the cones with mounds
Of cooling brown and white
(i) To whom does 'his' refer to in the given lines?
- His refers to the ice-cream man.
(ii) What is a joyful sight for children?
- The ice-cream man filling the cones beneath his round umbrella is a joyful sight for children.
(iii) Find the word from the stanza which means the same as ‘view’.
- sight
21. Read the following passage carefully.
Father took me to visit Uncle Lal's dairy farm. I saw all of Uncle Lal's cows. He has fifty cows. They eat grass in the big green farms. In the evening the farmers bring them to the barn to be milked. Uncle Lal sells his milk in the city.
Now answer the questions.
(i) Who took you to the farm ?
- Father took me to the farm.
(ii) How many cows are there in the farm ?
- There are fifty cows in the farm.
(iii) Where does Uncle Lal sells his milk ?
- Uncle Lal sells his milk in the city.
22. Write opposites of the followings:-
1. White X Black
2. Summer X Winter
3. City X Village
4. Sweet X Sour
5. Down X Up
23. Add “ful” at the end to noun to change it into adjective:-
1. Joy- Joyful
2. Peace- Peaceful
3. Mouth- Mouthful
4. Delight- Delightful
5. Fear- Fearful
6. Harm-Harmful
24. Make sentences from the given words:-
1. Beneath- The book is beneath the table.
2. Cluster- The children clustered around the ice-cream man.
3. Mounds- The ice-cream man sells mounds of ice-cream.
4. Ice-cream- I love Ice-cream.
5. Joyful- What a joyful sight!
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Nice. But it should be Practic at school hour
ReplyDeleteThank you sir/madam.🙏 🙏
DeleteAll these are being practiced during classroom transaction. After that I post here so that the students who couldn't access the class, can access here. And the students who don't belong to our school also can access and can be benefitted. Basically all students can access it and keep learning.