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Word Galaxy

  • cricket set – the things one needs to play cricket such as bat, ball, pad and gloves
  • cheer your favourite team – clap and shout to encourage your team
  • stumps – wooden sticks with rounded ends that form the wicket
  • bails – small pieces of wood kept on top of the stumps
  • clean bowled – the bails fell off the stumps
  • whizzed past him – flew past him
  • nervous – scared
  • techniques – skills
  • toss – throwing up of a coin
  • fair – honest

A. Tick the correct option:

(1) On his birthday, Sumit got a________.
a. doll
b. cricket set
c. cricket team

(2) The girls got angry with the boys because the________.
a. boys did not include them in their game.
b. boys always fought with them.
c. girls wanted to play by themselves.

(3) Sudha was taught to play cricket by________.
a. Rajan
b. her mother
c. Priti

(4) The boys laughed when they saw the girls playing cricket because they________.
a. had always defeated the girls in cricket
b. always made fun of the girls
c. thought that cricket was a boys’ game.

(5) Rajan realized he would have to try his best because________.
a. the girls’ team was much better than he expected
b. he was the last one to bat
c. the girls’ team always won matches.

B. Read and answer the questions:

Question 1: “Let’s go to the playground and show the boys.”

(a) Who said these words and to whom?
Answer: Sudha said these words to her mother and Priti.

(b) What did the speaker want to ‘show’ the boys?
Answer: The speaker wanted to ‘show’ the boys that ‘girls can play cricket’.

(c) Circle the word that you think would best describe how the speaker was feeling when she/he spoke these words. (sad/determined/anxious)
Answer: Determined

Question 2: “All right, Aunty. But please be careful.”

(a) Who said these words and to whom?
Answer: Sumit said these words to Sudha’s mother.

(b) What was ‘Aunty’ planning to do?
Answer: Aunty was planning to prove the boys that ‘girls can play cricket’.

(c) Why do you think the speaker said these words?
Answer: I think the speaker said these words because according to the speaker girls can’t play cricket and he didn’t want to hurt them.

C. Discuss


Question 1: Why do you think the boys did not ask the girls to play with them at first?
Answer: The boys thought that the girls would not play cricket so they did not ask them to play.


Question 2: Do you think we can do anything well if we practise enough?
Answer: Yes, we can do anything well if we practice enough because practice makes a man perfect.Question 3: What lesson did the girls teach the boys?
Answer:
The girls taught the boys two lessons. One is that there is no difference between what a boy and a girl can do. The second is that we can achieve anything if we put our efforts to it.


Extra Questions


Question 1: Who won the match? What did the boys decide?
Answer:
The girls’ team made thirty-one runs and won the match. The boys decided to play together with the girls from that day.


Question 2: What moral does the story give you?
Answer:
The story teaches us that we should never underestimate anyone and girls are no less than boys.
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