Class 6 English Unit 7
(1) Answer the following questions:-
(1) At what age was Usha’s sports talent recognised first? Who did it?
Answer: (1) Usha’s sports talent was recognised first at the age of11 years old.
(2) Physical education teacher Balakrishnan recognised Usha’s sports talent.
(2) What quality do you notice in Usha while she practiced athletic from a young age?
Answer: Hardworking and dedicated toward her work this quality I notice in Usha while she practiced athletic from a young age.
(3) How was Usha in her studies?
Answer: Usha was extremely bright student. She was always amongst the top three in her class.
(4) How does Usha’s life inspire the young girls of our country?
Answer: Usha’s life inspire young of our century by that we should have dreams and have dedication and seriousness toward our dreams.
(5) What qualities in Usha made has great in athletics?
Answer: She has great seriousness toward her dream.
She never give up in any situation. This all qualities of Usha made her great athletics.
(6) Can you name some great Indian women athletics who have inspired by P.I Usha?
Answer: Hima das is the great Indian women athletics have inspired by P.I Usha.
(7) List out different events in athletics.
Answer: (i) Running
(ii) Walking
(iii) Jumping
(II) Write on “the time line” given below the important events from the life of P.T Usha.
(III) Write whether the following statements are True or False in the brackets.
(1) P.I. Usha is also called the golden girl. [True]
(2) She is the only daughter of her parents. [False]
(3) Usha was the individual champion in the sub-junior district meet. [True]
(4) Usha was an average child in her studies. [False]
(5) Madhavan Nambiar alone was responsible. [False]
Vocabulary
(1) The following is the list of some sports games. Classify them into sports and games. Add some other games or sports you know to the list.
| Volley ball | Cricket |
| Running | Chess |
| Badminton | Table tennis |
| Soccer | Skiing |
| Swimming | Motor racing |
| Baseball | Sailing |
| Carrom | Lawn tennis |
| Sports
(Single person participation and take less time) |
Games
(More than one participation and take more time) |
| Running
Swimming Motor racing |
Volleyball
Badminton Carrom Soccer Chess Table tennis |
(II) Pick out from the reading passage the synonyms of the following words.
(i) Devoted – Dedicated
(ii) Title-holder – Champion
(iii) Attained – Achieved
(iv) Exceptional – Special
(v) Small – Tiny
(vi) Happily – Joyfully
(vii) Tranquility – Serenity
(viii) Increase – Rise
(ix) Talented – Instinct
(1) Rewrite the following sentences with the correct order of adjectives.
(1) Usha was born at farm mothers old her house.
Answer:
(2) Usha is darklittle a shy girl.
Answer: Usha is a shy dark little girl.
(3) There are flower some beautiful rose while in our garden.
Answer:
(4) It is new my textbook English.
Answer: It is my new English textbook.
(5) Suitha was dressed in sarees Kancheepurm expensive an silk.
Answer:
Writing
(1) You have read about P.I. Usha. Using that information and any other information you may have, try to write a short profile of this great athlete. You can use the following skeleton if you like.
P.I. Usha – The Payyoli Express
Name: PILAVLLAKANDITHEKKEPARAMBIL USHA
Father’s Name: Paithal
Mother’s Name: Lakshmi Amma
Date of Birth: 20th may 1964
Place of Birth: Payyoli, Kozhikode District, Kerala
Name of the Coach: Balakrishnan
Brief Biographical Sketch:-
PILAVULLAKANDI THEKKEPARAMBIL USHA was born on 20th May in 1964. Her physical education teacher recognised her talent in early age. Usha was shy girl in her childhood. She was an extremely bright student. She was popular with her teacher. Usha joined the sport Division at Cannanor to improve her sport talent. She had seriousness and dedication toward her dream. She never gave up in her career.
Achievement:
(1) Usha came first in 100m, 200m, long jump and high jump in sub-junior District competition.
Records:
(1) Usha clocked 11.8 seconds in the loom at the senior inter-state meet in Bangalore.
(2) She set a record of 24.6 second in the zoom race.
Medals:
(1) In 1982, she won two silver medals in New Delhi Asian Games.
(2) In 1986, four gold and one silver at Asian games in Seoul.
Awards and Honours:
(1) In 1985, she honoured with Padma Shri.
(2) In 1985, she won Arjuna Award for Athletics.
(II) Suppose you have Rs. 10,000 to spend on sport equipment. Write in your notebook the things you would want to buy. As the secretory of the sports clubs in your school, write a letters to M/s. India sports, Hyderabad for placing order for these sports goods. You should ask them to send you the price list of the goods before you place the final order.
List of Sport Equipment’s:
(i) Carrom
(ii) Badminton
(iii) Foot ball
(iv) Base ball
(v) Net
(vi) Shuttle clock
(vii) Skates
(viii) Ski poles
To, M/s. India Sports, Hyderabad
Subject: Placing order of sport Equipment
Dear Sir, Our school club want sport equipment for student. As a secretory of sport club it my responsibility to have good quality of equipment for our club. As I know your shop is famous for sports equipment. I would like to place an order of sports equipment from your shop.
So I kindly request you to send me a price chart of sport equipment as soon as possible. I enclose the list of sport equipment copy in this letter.
Thank You
Your faithful secretory of sport club
(III) The Telengana sports club, Hyderabad has decided to collect data about the popularity of sports and games in schools. Write a message about the Telengana sports club’s visit to your school.
To, The Telengana sports club, Hyderabad
Subject: To visit in our schools.
Respect Sir, I am the student of junior high school Hyderabad. Our school will organising sports function in next week. In this function we held various sport function.
So, I request to you please visit to our school for collecting sports data for your club.
Thank You
Your faithfully Avinash Yadav
Indian Cricket Team
Answer the following questions:
(1) Do you like the poem? Give reasons for your answer.
Answer: Yes, because the poem tell us victory of India, which is the proud moment for every India.
Ranji’s wonderful Bat
Answer the following questions.
(1) What kind of inspiration do you get from this incident?
Answer: From this incident we got that have faith on our self, lucky and unlucky is only a word our hard work makes us lucky.
(2) What role did Mr. Kumar play in making Ranji successful?
Answer: Mr. Kumar boosted the confidence of Ranji from that bat and assured him that this was luckiest bat for him.
(4) Do you think that the bat was really a lucky one? Do you believe in such things? Share your ideas with your group.
Answer: (i) No, I don’t think that the bat was really lucky.
(ii) I never belief in such thing.
(iii) Our desire and hard work makes us luckiest, such thing doesn’t bring our success.