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Raintree 3 Ice-cream Man

 Summary: Ice-cream Man

This is a happy poem written by Rachel Field. It is about an ice-cream seller,

who arrives at a street with his little cart loaded with treats for a hot, summer

day. The speaker describes children’s love for ice-cream in summers. The Icecream Man visits the streets on a hot summer day, with a round umbrella over

his cart. He fills the cones with creamy and cold ice-cream of many flavours. He

also sells fizzy, colourful cold drinks. His cart is just like a flower bed and

children gather around it like honeybees.

This poem brings to mind, images of hot weather and cool treats with words

like brick’s a blaze of heat, mounds of cooling brown and white. The speaker

also gives the reader a feeling of happiness and cheer by mentioning many

colours and flavour names like brown, white, green, orange, white, pink,

vanilla, chocolate and strawberry. Words like round umbrella, fill the cones,

bottles full of frosty-fizz, children cluster round help us imagine the sights and

actions clearly. 

POEM: ICE-CREAM MAN

A. 1. On a hot, summer day it is a joyful sight to see the ice-cream man fill the cones with cool

ice-cream. And to see colourful bottles of soft drink stacked under the ice-cream man’s umbrella.

2. The ice-cream cart has two wheels that go trundling down the streets. It has a large, round

umbrella. The cart is filled with cold ice-creams and soft drinks of different colours and flavours.

3. The different flavours of ice-cream are vanilla, chocolate and strawberry. The fizzy soft-drinks are

different colours like green, orange, white and pink.


B. 1. The ice-cream cart is compared to a flower-bed and the children are compared bees because they

gather around the cart just like how bees gather around a flower-bed that has different types of

flowers in it.

2. Suggested answers (Accept any logical answer) A train, wheelbarrow, an old bus, an old car, a pram, a

shopping trolley etc.

3. Suggested answers (Accept any logical answer) Shops that sell balloons, shops that sell small trinkets

like stickers, toy watches; shops that make temporary tattoos or face-painting; small shops that sell

nuts and raw-mango outside school; shops that sell toffees, chewing gum and candy.

C. 1. little cart 2. round umbrella 3. joyful sight

D. Suggested answers (Accept any logical answer)

 On a hot, summer day, I would love to eat a watermelon. It is a boring green on the outside and when

cut, it is a bright red. The brown seeds look pretty, but are a little troublesome. When I bite into it, it is

crunchy and juicy. As I chew on the watermelon slice, I feel fresh and cool. I like watermelons because

it helps me satisfy my hunger and thirst as well. 

ICE-CREAM MAN POEM

A. Answer in brief.

1. In which season is ice-cream popular and who feels joyful on seeing the ice-cream man?

 Ans: Ice-cream is popular in summer and children feel joyful on seeing the ice-cream man.

2. What are the different flavours of ice-cream in his cart and what else is he selling?

 Ans: The ice-cream man has vanilla, chocolate and strawberry ice-cream in his cart and he also

sells green, orange, white and pink cold drinks.

B. Answer in detail.

1. What is the poem Ice-cream Man about and what does the speaker compare the ice-cream cart

and the children to?

 Ans: The poem is about how children feel happy on seeing the ice-cream man and his cart on

a hot, summer day. The speaker compares the ice-cream cart to a flower bed and ice-creams to

flowers of different colours. The children are compared to honey bees that gather around the

flowers.

C. Read the lines and answer the questions.

1. When summer’s in the city,

 And brick’s a blaze of heat,

 The Ice-cream Man with his little cart

 Goes trundling down the street.

 a. When does the ice-cream man come with his cart?

 b. What is meant by brick’s a blaze of heat?

 c. How does the ice-cream man’s cart move?

 Ans: a. The ice-cream man comes with his cart in summer.

 b. It means that it is so hot, as if the bricks on the pavement are on fire.

 c. The ice-cream man’s cart moves on small broad wheels.

2. Beneath his round umbrella,

 Oh, what a joyful sight,

 To see him fill the cones with mounds

 Of cooling brown and white.

 a. What is the shape of his umbrella?

 b. What does he fill the cones with?

 c. What colours are the ice-creams?

 Ans: a. The shape of the umbrella is round.

 b. He fills the cones with ice-cream.

 c. The ice-creams are brown and white

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