NCERT Solutions for Class 6 English Chapter 4 Sports and Wellness (PDF) – 2027

Correct answer: (ii) matches played without competition.

The word friendly tells you the purpose — the players are friends practising together, not rivals fighting for a cup. There is no prize and no place in a points table.

Correct answer: (i) someone who you compete with.

An opponent stands on the other side of the net, the board or the field. A partner stands on your side — so option (ii) describes a teammate, not an opponent.

Correct answer: (ii) record of points in a game/match.

A tally is a running count kept as the game goes on — the numbers on a scoreboard. It has nothing to do with school marks.

Correct answer: (ii) being fair and respecting each player in a game.

Sporting spirit means playing fair, respecting every player and accepting the result with a smile. Following the rules (option i) is only a part of it.

False.

The story says he “could not bear losing, not even at marbles”, and if he sensed he would lose a game, he would not play it at all.

The last Friday of each month was special because on that day the coach conducted friendly matches during the games period.

Prabhat himself was responsible for keeping the score.

“Prabhat was given the responsibility of keeping score for their match.” He was thus a player and the scorer at the same time.

No, at this point in the story he would not have wanted another match.

Surya was clearly the better player — he “won points again and again” — and Prabhat had won only by changing the scoreboard. Prabhat played only when “he was sure of winning”, and he could not be sure of beating Surya. It is Surya, not Prabhat, who says, “We should play again some other time.”

Surya enjoyed playing for its own sake, whether he was winning or losing, and whether he was good at the game or bad at it.

Even at basketball, where he could not score a basket for ten minutes, “he enjoyed playing the game. His happy smile never left his face.”

Prabhat observed that Surya’s enjoyment stayed the same no matter how well or badly he played.

“Prabhat kept a close watch on Surya for some days. He was great at some things, terrible at others but what was common was the enjoyment. He enjoyed everything equally.”

Prabhat would play a game only if he was sure of winning it.

The text says, “He would take part only when he was sure of winning.”

Badminton.

“You could not stop him from playing the kind of games he was really good at, like badminton.” That is also why he waited so eagerly for the last Friday of the month, when the badminton matches were played.

Answer: c. afraid of losing.

Refusing to enter a game the moment he sensed defeat is the behaviour of someone who is frightened of the result, not of someone who is skilful or certain.

Answer: b. unhappy.

He “did not feel as happy as he usually did”, even though he had won.

Prabhat finds it surprising because Surya behaved in a way that was the exact opposite of everything Prabhat believed about losing.

For Prabhat, losing was “the worst thing that could happen”, yet Surya did not feel bad about losing. More surprising still, the next day Surya happily played basketball, a game he was hopeless at.

We can say that Surya’s reaction to not winning was different from Prabhat’s.

Surya lost and stayed cheerful — “It’s been fun. We should play again some other time.” Prabhat won and still could not sleep. The two reactions could hardly be further apart.

In the beginning his attitude spoilt his enjoyment of games, because he enjoyed only winning, not playing. He refused to play any game he might lose, he played “with great seriousness”, and losing made him “feel terrible”. So games became a test he was afraid to fail instead of fun.

He cheated because he could not bear to lose, and he saw that he was losing.

Surya was playing far better and winning point after point. Prabhat was the scorekeeper, so when Surya looked elsewhere he had the chance to change the scoreboard. For him, winning mattered more than playing fairly.

The two boys played for completely different reasons: Prabhat played to win, Surya played to enjoy.

The sharpest difference is the basketball court: Surya “was so hopeless at it that he could not score a basket for ten minutes. Yet, he enjoyed playing.” Prabhat would not even have stepped on to that court.

No, his approach was not healthy at all — neither for his mind nor for his growth as a player.

His happiness depended only on winning, so losing made him “feel terrible”. He avoided games he might lose, so he learnt nothing new, and his wish to win at any cost made him cheat. A healthy approach is “trying to do well, and enjoying every moment of it”.

Sporting spirit is important because it is what keeps a game a game — fair, friendly and worth playing again tomorrow.

It keeps a game fair and honest, lets everyone enjoy playing whether they win or lose, and builds respect between players. In the story, the other students enjoyed playing with Prabhat only after he showed “a great sporting spirit”.

The title is perfectly suitable because the story is not about a match at all — it is about a boy whose whole way of feeling about games changes.

‘A change of heart’ means a complete change in one’s feelings or attitude. At first Prabhat could not bear to lose and even cheated to win. By watching Surya he learnt to enjoy games for their own sake, and his classmates praised his “great sporting spirit”.

Answer (the letters must stand side by side, in the same order):

Verbs to circle:

How each row is decided:

• Row 1: Prabhat played the match first; the class talked about it afterwards.
• Row 2: He won the game first; the disappointment came later, that night.
• Row 3: Surya did not feel bad first; Prabhat’s surprise came after he saw this.

Prabhat had already finished his homework before going to the badminton match.

Two blanks are given because the word already is placed between the helping verb and the main verb: had + already + finished.

Surya had played basketball for years before joining the school’s badminton team.

The word before is the signal: everything that happened before the second action takes had + third form.

By the time Prabhat arrived, Surya had already won several matches.

The third form of win is won, and already again sits between the two parts: had + already + won.

The new student, Surya, had never met Prabhat before coming to the school.

The word never goes between had and the third form: had + never + met. The third form of meet is met.

Before the games period, Prabhat had practised badminton extensively.

Practise is the verb (with an s), so its past and third form is practised. The sentence begins with Before, which marks this as the earlier action.

Circle: Sarita – Nupur.

The announcement (transcript, page 128) says: “For the chess match, it has been decided that this match shall be played between Sarita and Nupur.”

1. I do not feel happy about it
2. I will lose the match
3. I managed to change the scoreboard
4. everyone congratulated me after my win
5. he had fun playing with me
6. I won the match
7. Surya did not feel bad

The phrase left over is “I felt very happy” — Prabhat did not feel happy that night.

This is a reading task. The two sketches, side by side:

What they teach us: both began with very little and reached the top through years of practice and hard work.

The four children in the picture are playing outdoors on the grass — blowing soap bubbles and running about to catch them.

One boy sits and blows bubbles through a ring, and the other three run and jump to catch them.

They are outdoors on a wide, open patch of grass — most probably a park, a playground, or an open field near their homes.

The clues are the flat green grass on every side, a flowering bush and open sky — there are no walls or roads.

It is evening — late afternoon, close to sunset.

The sky is orange-gold, as it is near sunset, and every child throws a long shadow, which happens only when the sun is low.

Begin as the book suggests — I go to … — and give a clear time.

Use the cue I like playing … and add why you like it. That one extra clause turns a list into an answer.

Meaning: The children play right beside a small, narrow stream of water.

A creek is a small, narrow stream of water, smaller than a river. The children play in a field beside it.

Meaning: The child has run so fast and so long that she is completely out of breath — panting, unable to breathe normally.

To ‘catch your breath’ is to start breathing normally again after hard running.

Meaning: Night is falling. The deep blue of the evening sky is deepening into the total black of night — in other words, it has become dark.

Meaning: In the growing darkness the trees seem to move quietly nearer, as though they were creeping in around the children.

The trees do not really move. As it grows dark the children can see less, so the trees seem nearer.

The completed paragraph:

The children play ball in the evening in the neighbour’s field. They run so fast that they run out of breath. They continue to play till the evening when the blue sky turns black, and the trees are not clearly visible. They can feel their feet aching, now that it is cold. Finally, they stop playing and go home as it is night.

Answer: C. running fast results in being breathless.

The line before says, “We run so fast”. Running fast leaves the speaker out of breath.

No, the speaker is not alone. She is playing with a group of friends.

The poem says “we play ball”, “our neighbour’s field” and “cold grass aches our feet”. Also, you cannot play ball alone.

The pattern — one word to a line, dropping down the page like steps — makes the reader breathe the way the child is breathing.

Each word stands alone on its own line, so we must pause after every word, like a child gasping for breath. The pattern shows how breathless the children are after running so fast.

The grass is cold because the sun has set and night has come.

After sunset the ground loses the day’s warmth and the evening air turns cool.

The children’s feet are aching because they have been running hard for a long time, and the grass has now turned cold.

The poem gives both halves of the reason. The running comes from “We run so fast / I can’t even catch my breath”, and the cold comes from “cold grass aches our feet”. Tired feet plus cold ground equals a real ache.

Answer: A. time for play has ended.

It is darkness, not any player, that ends the game — “game’s over. / Night wins!”

1. Pattern of the lines (the shape shows the meaning):
The kite went
    up
        up
            up
and away.

2. Personification (human qualities for lifeless things):

• The angry wind slammed every door in the house.
• My cycle groaned as it climbed the hill.
• The mountains pulled a blanket of mist over their heads.

Write one water body on each of the six lines of the web: river, lake, pond, sea, stream, waterfall. (Other correct words: ocean, canal, spring, well, lagoon, bay, reservoir.)

Clues: 1 — kick a black and white ball into the goal; 2 — hold your breath and say ‘Hu-tu-tu’; 3 — arms turn and legs kick in the pool; 4 — breathe in, breathe out, practise every day.

Sample answer — some indigenous games of India: kho-kho and kabaddi (all over India), gilli-danda (north and central India), lagori or pittu (Karnataka, Maharashtra), langdi (Maharashtra), mallakhamb (Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh), silambam (Tamil Nadu), yubi lakpi (Manipur).

Kho-kho in short: two teams of nine; eight chasers sit in a line facing alternate sides; the active chaser gives a ‘kho’ to change places; a runner who is touched is out.

The 21st of June is known as International Day of Yoga (International Yoga Day).

On this day people all over the world practise yoga together — in schools, parks and offices — and learn about its benefits. The UN General Assembly accepted the proposal for this day on 11 December 2014.

asana, pranayama, meditation, breathing, posture, yoga mat, flexibility, balance, calm, concentration, harmony, Surya Namaskar, tadasana, vrikshasana, shavasana, yuj, Patanjali, International Day of Yoga.

The rule: each new word must begin with the last letter of the word before it. Start with yoga, which ends in ‘a’ — so the next word begins with ‘a’.

1. health   2. lifestyle   3. strength   4. balance   5. calm   6. stress   7. sleep

The aim of yoga is to join, or unite — to bring the different parts of a person into one balanced whole, and so to reach complete health and well-being.

Sage Patanjali described yoga as “the means to make the mind quiet and free from all distractions”.

Unity is the whole meaning of the word ‘yoga’ — yuj, to join. The passage names three unions.

It tells us that yoga is now recognised all over the world as good for health. The World Health Organisation, the health agency of the United Nations, made a free, easy-to-use app of yoga videos and audio files so that people everywhere could practise it. As the text says, “the benefits of practising yoga are internationally recognised”.

One clear long-term effect is that a regular practitioner of yoga becomes a calmer, more focused person.

Yoga’s breathing and meditation calm the mind, reduce stress and increase concentration. Practised daily for years, this makes a person patient and self-controlled — able to stay calm and give full attention to one thing at a time.

It is important to have a regular practice of stretching every morning to stay flexible.

Noun, spelt with a c. The clue is the word a before it and the adjective regular — you can only put a and an adjective in front of a naming word.

I practise Yoga every day to keep my mind and body healthy.

Verb, spelt with an s. It comes straight after the subject I and tells us what I do.

The teacher said, you can join the school hockey team but it requires a lot of practice to improve your skills.

Noun, with a c. “A lot of ____” must be followed by a naming word, exactly as in ‘a lot of water’ or ‘a lot of time’.

Our athletics coach asked us to practise running on grass to strengthen our grip while running.

Verb, with an s. The word to in front of it makes it an infinitive — to practise, like to run, to stretch.

I practise deep breathing exercises when I feel stressed to calm myself down.

Verb, with an s — the subject I is doing the action, just as in sentence (ii).

Developing a good habit of eating fruits and vegetables should be a daily practice.

Noun, with a c. The words a daily in front of the blank can only be followed by a naming word.

(every word uses A): AGE, AGO, ANY, ARE, EAR, ERA, OAR, RAG, RAN, NAG, RAY, YEAR, NEAR, GEAR, EARN, YARN, RAGE, RANG, YOGA, ANGER, RANGE, ORGAN, GROAN, ANGRY, AGONY, YEARN, ORANGE.

True: 1, 3, 4 and 6. False: 2 (he began at the age of 16, not 16 years ago), 5 (he eats a balanced diet regularly) and 7 (she plans to learn asanas in the summer vacations).

Sample answer — how our group took turns: we spoke one by one, going clockwise; nobody interrupted; we looked at the speaker and listened; each of us began by responding to the last speaker’s point; and at the end each of us asked one question.

This is an information box, so there is nothing to write. Remember three facts: seals of the Sindhu-Sarasvati Civilisation (about 2700 BC) show that yoga was practised in ancient India; yoga has now spread all over the world; and on 11 December 2014 the UN General Assembly accepted the proposal to celebrate 21 June as International Yoga Day.

• Tadasana (Mountain Pose): stand straight, stretch the arms up and rise on the toes. It stretches the spine, improves posture and balance, and strengthens the ankles.
• Vrikshasana (Tree Pose): stand on one leg with the other foot against the inner thigh and the palms joined above the head. It improves balance and concentration and strengthens the legs.

Answer: SEVEN.

Seven is an odd number. Take away the letter S from S-E-V-E-N and what is left is EVEN.

Answer: A traffic light (traffic signal).

Green means go and red means stop at a road crossing. The amber (yellow) light in between warns you to get ready to stop.

Answer: EYE.

It has three letters, and read backwards it is still E-Y-E. It is, of course, a part of the body.

Answer: Your shadow.

A shadow goes wherever you go in the sunlight, but it is only a patch of ground where your body has blocked the light. There is nothing there to hold, so it can never be touched or caught.