NCERT Textbook: The Winner | English Class 6 (Honeysuckle) PDF Download

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Sports and Wellness
t he Winner Let us do these activities before we read.
 1. Look at this picture. 
 (a) What are these children doing? 
 (b) Where do you think they are? 
 (c) What is the time of the day?
 2. Discuss the given questions with your classmates and teacher. You may 
begin your sentences with—
  I go to …
  I play with ...
  The place I go to for playing ...
  I like playing ...
  Sometimes I come back ...
 (a) When do you go to play after school?
 (b) Who do you play with?
 (c) Where do you go to play in the evening? 
 (d) Which games do you like playing? 
 (e) When do you come back home?
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Sports and Wellness
t he Winner Let us do these activities before we read.
 1. Look at this picture. 
 (a) What are these children doing? 
 (b) Where do you think they are? 
 (c) What is the time of the day?
 2. Discuss the given questions with your classmates and teacher. You may 
begin your sentences with—
  I go to …
  I play with ...
  The place I go to for playing ...
  I like playing ...
  Sometimes I come back ...
 (a) When do you go to play after school?
 (b) Who do you play with?
 (c) Where do you go to play in the evening? 
 (d) Which games do you like playing? 
 (e) When do you come back home?
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Poorvi—Grade 6
 Let us read 
Evenings,
we play ball
next to the creek
in	our 	neighbour’s 	field.
We run so fast
I
can’t 
even
catch
my
breath.
When blue dark turns to black,
cold grass aches our feet,
trees creep close—
game’s over.
Night wins!
  Georgia	Heard	
Let us discuss
 1. Read the given lines from the poem. Write the meaning of the lines by 
identifying the words/expressions in them.
 
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Sports and Wellness
t he Winner Let us do these activities before we read.
 1. Look at this picture. 
 (a) What are these children doing? 
 (b) Where do you think they are? 
 (c) What is the time of the day?
 2. Discuss the given questions with your classmates and teacher. You may 
begin your sentences with—
  I go to …
  I play with ...
  The place I go to for playing ...
  I like playing ...
  Sometimes I come back ...
 (a) When do you go to play after school?
 (b) Who do you play with?
 (c) Where do you go to play in the evening? 
 (d) Which games do you like playing? 
 (e) When do you come back home?
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Poorvi—Grade 6
 Let us read 
Evenings,
we play ball
next to the creek
in	our 	neighbour’s 	field.
We run so fast
I
can’t 
even
catch
my
breath.
When blue dark turns to black,
cold grass aches our feet,
trees creep close—
game’s over.
Night wins!
  Georgia	Heard	
Let us discuss
 1. Read the given lines from the poem. Write the meaning of the lines by 
identifying the words/expressions in them.
 
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Sports and Wellness
 2. Read the poem. Complete the following based on the poem.
  The children play ______________ in the ______________ in the neighbour’s 
______________. They run so ______________ that they run out of breath. They 
continue to play till the evening when the blue sky turns ______________, 
and the trees are not clearly visible. They can feel their feet ______________, 
now that it is cold. Finally, they stop ______________ and go home as it is 
night.
	 Let 	 us 	think 	and	 reflect
 1. Read the given lines and answer the questions that follow.
 (a) We run so fast
  I  
  can’t
  even
  catch
  my
  breath.
S.No. Lines from the poem Meaning
1. next to the creek 
Clue: a small body of water.
2. I can’t even catch my breath 
Clue: the	child	has	been	running.
3. When blue dark turns to black 
Clue: the colour of the sky 
changes from blue to black. What 
does it mean?
4. trees creep close  
Clue: it is evening time. 
Why do you think the trees seem 
close?
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Sports and Wellness
t he Winner Let us do these activities before we read.
 1. Look at this picture. 
 (a) What are these children doing? 
 (b) Where do you think they are? 
 (c) What is the time of the day?
 2. Discuss the given questions with your classmates and teacher. You may 
begin your sentences with—
  I go to …
  I play with ...
  The place I go to for playing ...
  I like playing ...
  Sometimes I come back ...
 (a) When do you go to play after school?
 (b) Who do you play with?
 (c) Where do you go to play in the evening? 
 (d) Which games do you like playing? 
 (e) When do you come back home?
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Poorvi—Grade 6
 Let us read 
Evenings,
we play ball
next to the creek
in	our 	neighbour’s 	field.
We run so fast
I
can’t 
even
catch
my
breath.
When blue dark turns to black,
cold grass aches our feet,
trees creep close—
game’s over.
Night wins!
  Georgia	Heard	
Let us discuss
 1. Read the given lines from the poem. Write the meaning of the lines by 
identifying the words/expressions in them.
 
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Sports and Wellness
 2. Read the poem. Complete the following based on the poem.
  The children play ______________ in the ______________ in the neighbour’s 
______________. They run so ______________ that they run out of breath. They 
continue to play till the evening when the blue sky turns ______________, 
and the trees are not clearly visible. They can feel their feet ______________, 
now that it is cold. Finally, they stop ______________ and go home as it is 
night.
	 Let 	 us 	think 	and	 reflect
 1. Read the given lines and answer the questions that follow.
 (a) We run so fast
  I  
  can’t
  even
  catch
  my
  breath.
S.No. Lines from the poem Meaning
1. next to the creek 
Clue: a small body of water.
2. I can’t even catch my breath 
Clue: the	child	has	been	running.
3. When blue dark turns to black 
Clue: the colour of the sky 
changes from blue to black. What 
does it mean?
4. trees creep close  
Clue: it is evening time. 
Why do you think the trees seem 
close?
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Poorvi—Grade 6
 (i) Complete the sentence given below with the correct option. 
The speaker needs to catch her breath because 
____________________________________.
 a. everyone decides to walk
 b. all the friends wish to go home
 c. running fast results in being breathless
 d. they need to do breathing exercises
 (ii) Is the speaker alone? Why do you say so?
 (iii) What does the pattern in the lines tell us?
 (b) When blue dark turns to black,
  cold grass aches our feet,
  trees creep close—
  game’s over.
  Night wins!
 (i) Give one reason why the grass is cold.
 (ii) Complete the sentence suitably.
  The children’s feet are aching because_________________.
	 (iii)	 Why	does	‘Night’	win?
  Night wins because the ___________________________.
 a. time for play has ended
 b. children are tired
 c. time to play at home begins
 d. night follows day
 Let us learn
 1. Read the information given in the table and see what the poet has done 
in	the	poem	‘The	Winner’.	
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Sports and Wellness
t he Winner Let us do these activities before we read.
 1. Look at this picture. 
 (a) What are these children doing? 
 (b) Where do you think they are? 
 (c) What is the time of the day?
 2. Discuss the given questions with your classmates and teacher. You may 
begin your sentences with—
  I go to …
  I play with ...
  The place I go to for playing ...
  I like playing ...
  Sometimes I come back ...
 (a) When do you go to play after school?
 (b) Who do you play with?
 (c) Where do you go to play in the evening? 
 (d) Which games do you like playing? 
 (e) When do you come back home?
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Poorvi—Grade 6
 Let us read 
Evenings,
we play ball
next to the creek
in	our 	neighbour’s 	field.
We run so fast
I
can’t 
even
catch
my
breath.
When blue dark turns to black,
cold grass aches our feet,
trees creep close—
game’s over.
Night wins!
  Georgia	Heard	
Let us discuss
 1. Read the given lines from the poem. Write the meaning of the lines by 
identifying the words/expressions in them.
 
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Sports and Wellness
 2. Read the poem. Complete the following based on the poem.
  The children play ______________ in the ______________ in the neighbour’s 
______________. They run so ______________ that they run out of breath. They 
continue to play till the evening when the blue sky turns ______________, 
and the trees are not clearly visible. They can feel their feet ______________, 
now that it is cold. Finally, they stop ______________ and go home as it is 
night.
	 Let 	 us 	think 	and	 reflect
 1. Read the given lines and answer the questions that follow.
 (a) We run so fast
  I  
  can’t
  even
  catch
  my
  breath.
S.No. Lines from the poem Meaning
1. next to the creek 
Clue: a small body of water.
2. I can’t even catch my breath 
Clue: the	child	has	been	running.
3. When blue dark turns to black 
Clue: the colour of the sky 
changes from blue to black. What 
does it mean?
4. trees creep close  
Clue: it is evening time. 
Why do you think the trees seem 
close?
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Poorvi—Grade 6
 (i) Complete the sentence given below with the correct option. 
The speaker needs to catch her breath because 
____________________________________.
 a. everyone decides to walk
 b. all the friends wish to go home
 c. running fast results in being breathless
 d. they need to do breathing exercises
 (ii) Is the speaker alone? Why do you say so?
 (iii) What does the pattern in the lines tell us?
 (b) When blue dark turns to black,
  cold grass aches our feet,
  trees creep close—
  game’s over.
  Night wins!
 (i) Give one reason why the grass is cold.
 (ii) Complete the sentence suitably.
  The children’s feet are aching because_________________.
	 (iii)	 Why	does	‘Night’	win?
  Night wins because the ___________________________.
 a. time for play has ended
 b. children are tired
 c. time to play at home begins
 d. night follows day
 Let us learn
 1. Read the information given in the table and see what the poet has done 
in	the	poem	‘The	Winner’.	
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Lines from the 
poem
What the poet has done Other examples
I
can’t
even
catch
my
breath
This tells us that the 
children are really out of 
breath. The pattern is used 
to highlight them being 
out of breath.
The leaves are 
falling, 
 falling, 
  falling.
Night wins! The poet has used human 
qualities for inanimate 
things.
Here, night has been 
shown as winning.
This is called 
personification .
The sun played hide-and-seek 
with the clouds.
Now,	try	to	write	some	examples	of	your 	own	for 	both.	Use	your 	
imagination when creating these examples.  
 Let us listen 
  Listen to the riddles and write which sport is being referred to in the 
table below. 
Riddle 1 2 3 4
Sport
water 
bodies
 2. The poet has talked about a creek in the poem. 
You now know that creek is a water body. 
Complete the word web given below by writing 
which other water bodies you can think of. 
Discuss with your teacher.
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