Class-5 EVS, Chapter-17, Across the Wall, Additional Exercises with Solutions / NCERT


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.

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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.

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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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