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D1.  Discuss in small groups and select two games that, according to you, develop 
us the best (a) physically, (b) mentally and (c) socially. Give reasons for your 
choice.
 Physically: ______________________________ and _______________________________
 Reasons for our choice: _______________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
 Mentally: _____________________________ and __________________________________
 Reasons for our choice: _______________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
 Socially: _________________________________ and ______________________________
 Reasons for our choice: _______________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
D2.  There are hundreds and thousands of sports and games being played all over 
the world. However, we can place them under the following categories in 
order to know about them in a more convenient and systematic manner. 
Some of the categories are as follows: 
 1. Team Sports    2. Athletics    3. Gymnastics    4. Racquet Sports    5. Water 
Sports    6. Combat Sports    7.Target Sports    8. Motor Sports    9.Equestrian 
Events 10. Adventure, Fun and Indigenous Sports 
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D1.  Discuss in small groups and select two games that, according to you, develop 
us the best (a) physically, (b) mentally and (c) socially. Give reasons for your 
choice.
 Physically: ______________________________ and _______________________________
 Reasons for our choice: _______________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
 Mentally: _____________________________ and __________________________________
 Reasons for our choice: _______________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
 Socially: _________________________________ and ______________________________
 Reasons for our choice: _______________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
D2.  There are hundreds and thousands of sports and games being played all over 
the world. However, we can place them under the following categories in 
order to know about them in a more convenient and systematic manner. 
Some of the categories are as follows: 
 1. Team Sports    2. Athletics    3. Gymnastics    4. Racquet Sports    5. Water 
Sports    6. Combat Sports    7.Target Sports    8. Motor Sports    9.Equestrian 
Events 10. Adventure, Fun and Indigenous Sports 
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 Working in small groups of 4-5 students, discuss and place the sports and games 
given below in the category to which each of them belongs.
 paragliding      Go-Karting      hurdles      pommel horse    basketball       
 windsurfing     Formula One    judo          sculling             fencing
 kayaking         pole vaulting   dressage     squash              kickboxing
 kho kho           kung fu           malkhamb    snowboarding   golf
 decathlon        cricket            soccer          snooker            kabbadi
D3  Punctuate the following passage.
 a new age cycle rickshaw that is light on both the pockets and the calf muscles of 
rickshaw pullers mobile games designed to battle life threatening diseases like 
hiv/aids and tb and a low cost computer that enables visually challenged 
students to read the textbooks these are all new inventions 
 these are not innovations designed by phunjshuk wanngduaka ranchhoddas 
shamaldas of  chanchad of 3 idiots fame much before aamir khan's rancho made 
innovation a household word these simple but powerful ideas were being quietly 
conceptualised and put to practice by enterprising Indians in various corners of 
the country.  
D4.  Read this rags-to-riches story of a professional golfer from India.
 Ashok Kumar, one of the country's leading golfers who rose from the ranks of a 
caddie, remembers his very humble beginnings distinctly. "The reason I am here 
in this swanky restaurant of the Oberoi, sipping coffee with you is because of golf. 
It has brought me name, fame and money and all that I could possibly ask for in 
life. Without golf, I am a zero," said the 27-year-old golfer with rare candour in a 
chat with Kalyan Ashok, a sports journalist working with Sportstar, one of India's 
leading sports weeklies.
 India's No.3 golfer may not exactly be rolling in luxury at the moment, but he 
definitely leads a comfortable life-a far cry from the days when he used to sleep in a 
stable. "It's destiny that brought me to this stage in life and I can't say that I 
deserve it, but it's God's gift to me through golf," said Ashok. Not the one to forget 
his past, Ashok Kumar keeps reminding himself how he came up in life.
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D1.  Discuss in small groups and select two games that, according to you, develop 
us the best (a) physically, (b) mentally and (c) socially. Give reasons for your 
choice.
 Physically: ______________________________ and _______________________________
 Reasons for our choice: _______________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
 Mentally: _____________________________ and __________________________________
 Reasons for our choice: _______________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
 Socially: _________________________________ and ______________________________
 Reasons for our choice: _______________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
D2.  There are hundreds and thousands of sports and games being played all over 
the world. However, we can place them under the following categories in 
order to know about them in a more convenient and systematic manner. 
Some of the categories are as follows: 
 1. Team Sports    2. Athletics    3. Gymnastics    4. Racquet Sports    5. Water 
Sports    6. Combat Sports    7.Target Sports    8. Motor Sports    9.Equestrian 
Events 10. Adventure, Fun and Indigenous Sports 
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MAIN COURSE BOOK
HEALTH AND MEDICINE
 Working in small groups of 4-5 students, discuss and place the sports and games 
given below in the category to which each of them belongs.
 paragliding      Go-Karting      hurdles      pommel horse    basketball       
 windsurfing     Formula One    judo          sculling             fencing
 kayaking         pole vaulting   dressage     squash              kickboxing
 kho kho           kung fu           malkhamb    snowboarding   golf
 decathlon        cricket            soccer          snooker            kabbadi
D3  Punctuate the following passage.
 a new age cycle rickshaw that is light on both the pockets and the calf muscles of 
rickshaw pullers mobile games designed to battle life threatening diseases like 
hiv/aids and tb and a low cost computer that enables visually challenged 
students to read the textbooks these are all new inventions 
 these are not innovations designed by phunjshuk wanngduaka ranchhoddas 
shamaldas of  chanchad of 3 idiots fame much before aamir khan's rancho made 
innovation a household word these simple but powerful ideas were being quietly 
conceptualised and put to practice by enterprising Indians in various corners of 
the country.  
D4.  Read this rags-to-riches story of a professional golfer from India.
 Ashok Kumar, one of the country's leading golfers who rose from the ranks of a 
caddie, remembers his very humble beginnings distinctly. "The reason I am here 
in this swanky restaurant of the Oberoi, sipping coffee with you is because of golf. 
It has brought me name, fame and money and all that I could possibly ask for in 
life. Without golf, I am a zero," said the 27-year-old golfer with rare candour in a 
chat with Kalyan Ashok, a sports journalist working with Sportstar, one of India's 
leading sports weeklies.
 India's No.3 golfer may not exactly be rolling in luxury at the moment, but he 
definitely leads a comfortable life-a far cry from the days when he used to sleep in a 
stable. "It's destiny that brought me to this stage in life and I can't say that I 
deserve it, but it's God's gift to me through golf," said Ashok. Not the one to forget 
his past, Ashok Kumar keeps reminding himself how he came up in life.
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 His life story is stranger than fiction. Ashok was born into a poor family in Bihar 
that struggled to make both ends meet. (He has four brothers and two sisters.) In 
1988, his parents sent him away with his elder brother to Delhi and he worked as 
an errand boy at the Jaipur Polo Club.
  "I used to work in the day assisting my brother and sleep in the stable at night. 
The club also had the Air Force golf course and I wandered on to it one day and 
watched the players and caddies. I thought of becoming a caddie, but I was too 
young then. I did not get the job, but the club hired me a few years later," recalls 
Ashok. It was then that he took to golf. He started practising in the club when no 
one was around. However, he was caught playing one day and was suspended 
from his job, as caddies were not allowed to practise golf.
 "I was back to square one. Then I went away to help a lorry owner who was 
transporting sand. I remember the days when I had to pay five rupees to hire a 
blanket during winter and sleep in Connaught Place," Ashok said wistfully.
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D1.  Discuss in small groups and select two games that, according to you, develop 
us the best (a) physically, (b) mentally and (c) socially. Give reasons for your 
choice.
 Physically: ______________________________ and _______________________________
 Reasons for our choice: _______________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
 Mentally: _____________________________ and __________________________________
 Reasons for our choice: _______________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
 Socially: _________________________________ and ______________________________
 Reasons for our choice: _______________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
D2.  There are hundreds and thousands of sports and games being played all over 
the world. However, we can place them under the following categories in 
order to know about them in a more convenient and systematic manner. 
Some of the categories are as follows: 
 1. Team Sports    2. Athletics    3. Gymnastics    4. Racquet Sports    5. Water 
Sports    6. Combat Sports    7.Target Sports    8. Motor Sports    9.Equestrian 
Events 10. Adventure, Fun and Indigenous Sports 
UNIT-1
MAIN COURSE BOOK
HEALTH AND MEDICINE
 Working in small groups of 4-5 students, discuss and place the sports and games 
given below in the category to which each of them belongs.
 paragliding      Go-Karting      hurdles      pommel horse    basketball       
 windsurfing     Formula One    judo          sculling             fencing
 kayaking         pole vaulting   dressage     squash              kickboxing
 kho kho           kung fu           malkhamb    snowboarding   golf
 decathlon        cricket            soccer          snooker            kabbadi
D3  Punctuate the following passage.
 a new age cycle rickshaw that is light on both the pockets and the calf muscles of 
rickshaw pullers mobile games designed to battle life threatening diseases like 
hiv/aids and tb and a low cost computer that enables visually challenged 
students to read the textbooks these are all new inventions 
 these are not innovations designed by phunjshuk wanngduaka ranchhoddas 
shamaldas of  chanchad of 3 idiots fame much before aamir khan's rancho made 
innovation a household word these simple but powerful ideas were being quietly 
conceptualised and put to practice by enterprising Indians in various corners of 
the country.  
D4.  Read this rags-to-riches story of a professional golfer from India.
 Ashok Kumar, one of the country's leading golfers who rose from the ranks of a 
caddie, remembers his very humble beginnings distinctly. "The reason I am here 
in this swanky restaurant of the Oberoi, sipping coffee with you is because of golf. 
It has brought me name, fame and money and all that I could possibly ask for in 
life. Without golf, I am a zero," said the 27-year-old golfer with rare candour in a 
chat with Kalyan Ashok, a sports journalist working with Sportstar, one of India's 
leading sports weeklies.
 India's No.3 golfer may not exactly be rolling in luxury at the moment, but he 
definitely leads a comfortable life-a far cry from the days when he used to sleep in a 
stable. "It's destiny that brought me to this stage in life and I can't say that I 
deserve it, but it's God's gift to me through golf," said Ashok. Not the one to forget 
his past, Ashok Kumar keeps reminding himself how he came up in life.
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 His life story is stranger than fiction. Ashok was born into a poor family in Bihar 
that struggled to make both ends meet. (He has four brothers and two sisters.) In 
1988, his parents sent him away with his elder brother to Delhi and he worked as 
an errand boy at the Jaipur Polo Club.
  "I used to work in the day assisting my brother and sleep in the stable at night. 
The club also had the Air Force golf course and I wandered on to it one day and 
watched the players and caddies. I thought of becoming a caddie, but I was too 
young then. I did not get the job, but the club hired me a few years later," recalls 
Ashok. It was then that he took to golf. He started practising in the club when no 
one was around. However, he was caught playing one day and was suspended 
from his job, as caddies were not allowed to practise golf.
 "I was back to square one. Then I went away to help a lorry owner who was 
transporting sand. I remember the days when I had to pay five rupees to hire a 
blanket during winter and sleep in Connaught Place," Ashok said wistfully.
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 Six months later, when things cooled down, he moved back to the Air Force golf 
course and became a caddie to Amit Luthra, who was India's top golfer and an 
Asian Games gold medallist. "Luthra saab spoke to the club authorities and got 
me in," Ashok said with gratitude writ large on his face.
  Ashok learnt a lot from Luthra and one day he challenged his mentor to a play-off. 
"I don't know what got into my head and I told him that I will beat him, to which 
Luthraji said that if I did that he would waive a month's caddie fee. We played on 
the road, but I lost," Ashok smiled.
 Luthra, however, was very impressed with the young man's talent and got him 
enrolled at the Delhi Golf Club, which allowed caddies to play. Seizing this 
opportunity with both hands, Ashok went on to improve his game by leaps and 
bounds and in 1995, DGC selected him to play in the All India Junior tournament 
in Kolkata. 
 "I didn't know where Kolkata was. I thought it was outside the country! I travelled 
in an unreserved compartment, spending most of the time sitting in the bathroom 
or just outside as there was no place elsewhere."
 In Kolkata, he finished third and in the next two years he became the Junior 
Champion of the country. In 2000, he moved to the amateur ranks and two years 
later he became a pro, finishing his first season as India's No.5 golf player. Riding 
a wave of success, Ashok held the No.1 spot in 2006 and 2008 and currently 
(2010) he is ranked No.3.
 The moment he cherishes the most as a player is not the time when he won his 
first major title but when he finished 18th in the Hero Honda-DLF Tournament in 
2002. It fetched him a cheque of Rs. 1 lakh. "I never looked back after that,"Ashok 
remarked.
  In the first half of 2010, Ashok's golfing career got a boost when the Bangalore-
based business and software company, Kaseya India, run by golf enthusiast, Mr. 
Girish Krishnamurthy, decided to sponsor him. "I am a simple guy and with 
Kaseya around to take care of other things, I can concentrate better on my game 
now," Ashok says with determination as well as gratitude. It is his ardent wish 
that all golf links in the country should support caddies, as he feels that many of 
them have a lot of inherent talent simply waiting to be tapped.
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