Bihar Board Class 8 English Part III Chapter 4. Ice-Cream Man Text Book Questions and Answers
4. Ice-Cream Man
TEXTBOOK QUESTIONS AND THEIR ANSWERS
B. LET’S COMPREHEND :
B.1. THINK AND TELL :
Q. 1. Who sells ice-cream?
Ans. An ice-cream man sells ice-cream.
Q. 2. Where does the ice-cream man go ?
Ans. The ice-cream man goes into the streets.
Q. 3. What does the ice-cream man have over his head ?
Ans. The ice-cream man might have a cap or turban over his head.
Q. 4. Who feels joy to see the ice-cream man ?
Ans. Children feel joy to see the ice-cream man.
B.2. THINK AND WRITE:
B.2.1 Answer the following questions briefly.
Q. 1. What are the buyers of ice-cream compared to in the poem ? What does the comparison suggest?
Ans. The buyers of ice-cream are compared to honeybee. The comparison suggests that childrens are like honeybees who gather at any place all around thickly.
Q. 2. “Beneath his round umbrella.
Oh, what a joyful sight”
Who says these words? Which expression suggests the attitude of the speaker?
Ans. The above words have been spoken by the poet. The expression suggests about a pleasing sight which is joyful.
B.2.2. Answer the following questions in about 30 words.
Q. 1. Why do you feel joyful to see the ice-cream man in summer? Give reasons.
Ans. The ice-cream man sells cooling things in summer. So, we feel joyful to see him.
Q. 2. List different flavours of ice-cream mentioned in the poem that the ice-cream man sells. Add some more to the list.
Ans. The flavours mentioned in the poem are vanilla, chocolate, strawberry or chilly. Some others flavours are: orange, mango, litchi, etc.
C. WORD STUDY:
C.1. Pick out the words/expressions that convey the idea of intensity of heat in summer.
Ans. And brick’s blaze of heat’.
C.2. Pick out the word that means ‘a huge amount’.
Ans. comes with mounds.
D. RHYME TIME & FIGURES OF SPEECH
D.1. Look at the following pairs of words :
Heat–street
Sight–white
You have already been told that the pairs of words that end with a similar sound are called rhyming pairs/words.
Encircle words that rhyme with the words given in bold in each box. One has been done for you.
Ans. Sky–fry, dry, tight–night, right, late–rate, fate, fun–run, sun, thumb–some, plum, change–orange, range, strange, flash–crash, clash, compose–suppose, oppose, taught–caught, bought.
D.2. SIMILE
Study the following lines:
“The children cluster around
As thick as honeybee”
Here, children are compared to honeybees. Such obvious comparison using ‘as’ are known as similes.
Look at some more examples:
as white as snow (the colour of snow is compared to white)
as red as blood (the colour of blood is compared to red)
as hot as fire (the heat of fire is compared to hot)
Now complete the following similes by choosing appropriate words from the box:
1. as blue as ……… 2. as tall as ………..
3. as green as……… 4. as black as………..
5. as fat as……….. 6. as hard as ………….
7. as huge as………. 8. as sweet as …………
9. as cool as……….. 10. as dumb as …………
11. as old as……… 12. as soft as …………
Ans. 1. sky, 2. giraffe, 3. grass, 4. coal, 5. pig, 6. diamond, 7. elephant, 8. honey, 9. ice, 10, statue, 11. banyan, 12. cotton.
D.3. Speak aloud the following words and notice whether you can hear the “z” sound at the end of each of these words.
blaze roses
Read the poem aloud and encircle the words which end with the sound “z”.
Ans. summer’s ( समर इज), brick’s (ब्रिक इज) blaze. (ब्लेज ), his (हिज), goes (गोज), things (थिंग्ज), frosty–fizz (फ्रॉस्टी–फिज़), roses (रोजेज), peas (पीज), honeybees (हनीबीज).
E. LET’S TALK :
Work in groups :
1. Children like to eat and drink lots of cold things in summer. Name some of them.
2. Name some of the things that you and your friends do in the rainy season.
3. Name some of the interesting and enjoyable that you and your friends do in winter.
Ans.
Moti : What cold things do children like to eat?
Rohit : We children like to drink cold things in summer : ice–cream, cold drink, tomato sauce, jam, etc.
Sonu : What activities do you like to do in the rainy season.
Pintoo : We like to bath in rain. We also like to run by rain and. play in rain.
Chhotoo : What do you like to do in winter ?
Kiran : We love playing snowball in winter. We also like to fly kite, skate and enjoy picnic during winter.
F. COMPOSITION:
The Managing Committee of your school has decided to organise an inter school kabaddi tournament in your school on its Foundation Day. As the Secretary of the ‘Sports and Games Committee’ of the school, circulate letters of invitation to the headmasters of different schools of your locality to send their teams to take part in the tournament. Time, date, place and procedure of registration must be mentioned in it.
Ans. Letter of Invitation (circular):
G. P. School, Katihar
18th April, 2012.
To,
The Headmaster
Ishwar High School,
Katihar District.
Dear Sir,
The Managing Committee of our school has decided to organise an inter–school Kabaddi tournament in our school on its Foundation Day.
We requst your pleasure to send the team of your school to take part in the tournament.
Date of commencement : 15th May 2012.
Time : 11 AM
Place : School ground
Procedure of registration : The participation may be registered with the payment of 100 rupees alongwith the list of players before 1st May 2012 secretary
sports and committee games
G. TRANSLATION:
Q. Translate the poem in Hindi or your mother tongue.
Hint: See the Hindi meanings of the lesson.
SOME OTHER IMPORTANT QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
Short Answer Type Question:
Q. 1. Who is the poet of the lesson, ‘Ice-cream Man’?
Ans. Rachel Field has written the poem, ‘Ice-cream Man’.
Q. 2. Give the rhyming word for the following taking from the poem, ‘Ice-cream Man’.
heat, sight, drink, peas
Ans. street, white, pink, honeybees.
Q. 3. Give the opposite of the following:
cooling, joyful.
Ans. heating, sorrowful.
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