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Thursday, January 20, 2022

Sports, Games and Players

 

A game is an activity that is carried on when two or more people meet and play against each other for entertainment or amusement. A sport is an activity that involves the need for some physical effort and mental skills and is played for either recreation, self-enjoyment or competition.


Across the wall - Practice Questions PDF


Number of Players in Each Team

GameNumber of Players
Cricket11
Football11
Hockey11
Basketball05
Baseball09
Rugby Football15
Polo04
Water Polo07
Volleyball06
Kabaddi07
Lacrosse12
Handball07
Kho Kho09
Sepak Takraw03


Sports
Famous Badminton Players of India
Anup SridharPrakash PadukoneSaina Nehwal
Aparna PopatPulella GopichandDipankar Bhattacharya
Chetan AnandParupalli KashyapP. V. Sindhu
Famous Boxing Players of India
Mary KomDingko SinghShiva Thapa
Ali Qamar
Famous Archery Players of India
Dola BanerjeeLimba RamTarundeep Rai
Jayanta Talukdar
Famous Indian Athletes
Ashwini NachappaSoma BiswasP.T.Usha
Jyotirmoyee SikdarAnju Bobby GeorgeShiny Abraham
KM BeenamolMilkha Singh
Famous Cricket Players of India
Famous Legendary Cricket Players In India
Kiran MoreAjit WadekarKapil Dev
Javagal SrinathAjay JadejaMadan Lal
G.R. VishwanathC.G. BordeMohammed Azharuddin
E.D. SolkarBishan Singh BediManoj Prabhakar
E.A.S. PrasannaB.S. ChandrashekharMansur Ali Khan Pataudi
Sunil GavaskarB.K. Venkatesh PrasadNavjot Singh Sidhu
D. N. SardesaiDilip VengsarkarSyed Kirmani
C.P.S. Chauhan
Present Cricketers
Munaf PatelIrfan PathanSachin Tendulkar
Yuvraj SinghDinesh KartikSourav Ganguly
Zaheer KhanAjit AgarkarShikhar Dhawan
Virender SehwagAnil KumbleVirat Kohli
S. SrisanthHarbhajan SinghRavindra Jadeja
Mahender Singh DhoniRahul DravidGautam Gambhir
Murali KartikRP Singh
Car Racing
Narain KarthikeyanArmaan EbrahimKarun Chandhok
Squash
Joshna ChinappaRitwik BhattacharyaSaurav Ghosal
Famous Table Tennis Players of India
Achanta Sharatha KamalMouma DasPoulomi Ghatak
Chetan Baboor
Swimmers
Bula ChoudhuryMihir Sen
Famous Indian Shooters
Vijay KumarGagan NarangSamresh Jung
Abhinav BindraJaspal RanaRajyavardhan Singh Rathore
Anjali BhagwatManvjit Singh Sandhu
Famous Golf Players in India
Gaurav GheiJyoti RandhawaArjun Atwal
Jeev Milkha SInghShiv Kapur
Billiards and snooker
Geet SethiPankaj AdvaniAshok shandilya
Michael Ferreira
Famous Hockey Players in India
Dilip TirkeyLeslie ClaudiusDhanraj Pillay
Gagan Ajit SinghPargat SinghDhyan Chand
Famous Chess Players in India
Dibyendu BaruaParimarjan NegiKoneru Humpy
K SasikiranSandipan ChandaViswanathan Anand
P Harikrishna
Famous Football Players in India
Baichung BhutiaDr Talimeran AoInivalappil Mani Vijayan
Famous Lawn Tennis Players in India
Jaidip MukerjeaVijay AmritrajRamanathan Krishnan
Ramesh KrishnanLeander PaesSania Mirza
Rohan BopannaMahesh Bhupathi
Mountaineering
Tenzing Norgay
Famous Weightlifting Players
Karnam MalleshwariN. Kunjarani Devi
Famous Wrestling Players
Dalip Singh RanaGulamThe Great Gama
Dara SinghPalwinder Singh CheemaYogeshwar Dutt
Gobar GohaPanne Lal YadavNarsingh Pancham Yadav
Sakshi Malik






Chapter 17
Across the Wall

Match the column:

Column A
Column B
Noor Khan
For outstanding achievement in national sports
Arjun award
Nagpada Basketball Association of Mumbai
Mumbai
Coach of Nagpada team
NBA
Victoria Terminus Station

Ans-
Column A
Column B
Noor Khan
Coach of Nagpada team
Arjun award
For outstanding achievement in national sports
Mumbai
Victoria Terminus Station
NBA
Nagpada Basketball Association of Mumbai

Fill in the blanks:

1-    Players are recognized by their ability to play rather than by their caste or economic status.
2-    To play as a team, it is important to understand each other’s strengths and weaknesses.
3-    Cooperation between members of a team is their strength.
4-    Players are recognised by their perseverance rather than at what level they are playing.
5-    Ranking and unhealthy competition needs to be avoided while playing games.


Answer these questions:

1-    Should the games for boys and girls be different? What do you think?
Ans- No, games for girls and boys should not be different. Girls should be allowed to participate all the games.

2-    What is the difference between playing for yourself and playing for the team?
Ans- While playing for oneself, a person is concerned with only his/her performance while in playing for team, each player’s performance is important. Spirit of cooperation is more important than competition in team play.

3-    While playing in a team would you like to play for yourself or for the team? Why?
Ans- While playing for team, I would like to play for the team because victory is team is more important than individual records.

4-    What would happen if girls are not allowed to play games, to study or do some other work of their choice?
Ans- If girls are not allowed to play games, to study or do some other work of their choice, their talents will not come out and it will suppress the development of society and country.


5-    Have you heard of any women players? Name them and the games they play.
Ans- I have heard about these women players of the country:
Name of Player
Game
Mitali Raj
Cricket
Sania Mirza
Tennis
Saina Nehwal
Badminton
PV Sindhu
Badminton
Mary Kom
Boxing
Geeta Phogat
Wrestler
Deepika Kumari
Archery
Karnam Malleswari
Weightlifter
Dipa Karmakar
Gymnast

6-    In which areas other than sports have you heard of women getting recognition?
Ans- Women are getting recognition in almost all areas today. Following are some examples other than sports:
A)   Sushma Swaraj – External Affairs Minister
B)   Nirmala Sitaraman- Defence Minister of India
C)   Lata Mangeshkar- Playback Singer and winner of several awards and honours including Bharat Ratna, Padma Bhushan, Padma Vibhushan etc.
D)   Kiran Bedi- Retired IPS officer and current Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry.
E)   Tessy Thomas ‘Missile Women of India’- India’s first women scientist to head a missile project.
F)   Durga Shakti Nagpal- IAS officer known for her aggressive anticorruption campaign
G)  Chitra Ramkrishna- Joint MD, National Stock Exchange
H)   Zia Modi- Managing Partner, AZB & Partners
I)     Kiran Mazumdar Shaw- Chairman & MD, Biocon
J)    Chanda Kochhar- MD, CEO, ICICI Bank
K)   Vinitha Narayanan- MD, IBM India
L)    Kirthiga Reddy- Head, Facebook India
M)  Neelam Dhawan- MD, Hewlett Packard India
N)   Arunima Sinha- World’s first female amputee mountain climber
O)  Puja Thakur- Wing Commander who led Guard of Honour to Obama.
P)   Chhavi Rajawat- First Women Sarpanch in India

7-    Do you know any girl or women who you want to be like when you grow up? (Think of names other than a film actor or a model)
Ans- ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
(Teacher should tell the inspirational stories of women from Q.6 and ask students to answer this question on their own)

8-    “Afsana has jumped over the wall. The gender wall that her mother had put up for her,” Think and write in your own words, what was this wall? What do you understand by ‘gender bias’?
Ans- Afsana’s mother works as domestic help in some houses. When Afsana told her about her plans of playing basketball, she got angry and said, ‘Girls do not play basketball’. This was the gender wall which she broke by convincing her mother with the help of her friends and the coach.
Gender bias means unequal treatment of discrimination between boys and girls.

9-    If you are the leader of a team, how will you prepare your team?
Ans- If I become the leader of a team, I will prepare a robust team which there will be-
(a) Unity
(b) Cooperation among players
(c) Understanding each other’s strengths and weaknesses
(d) No quarrels  

Project:
Do you know players of Indian football and kabaddi team? Write their names.
Ask children to work in pairs to collect the names of Indian football, Kabaddi, Hockey, basketball etc. teams (men and women both). Collect photographs from newspapers, magazines etc. wherever possible)


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