Girl Footballers of Jharkhand - India's Pride
READ AND ANSWER
A. 1. Answer the following questions in one or two words.
a. How old were the girls supposed to be in order to play for the Gasteiz Cup?
Answer: Under fourteen.
b. Where is this tournament played and how many teams compete for the cup?
Answer: Spain, four hundred teams.
c. What position did the Jharkhand girls get in the category in which they played?
Answer: Third position.
d. Who helped them to get recognised as football players?
Answer: Franz Gastler
A. 2. Answer these questions.
a. How did the girls feel when they got the third position and what was their immediate reaction?
Answer: The girls felt very delighted when they got the third position. They were ecstatic and shouted 'Vande Mataram!"
b. Why did the girls' families discourage them from playing football?
Answer: The girls' family discouraged them from playing football because the girls were supposed to do housework., were often married off before fifteen and wearing shorts and playing football was unthinkable.
c. What were some of the problems they had to face?
Answer: They had a problem of producing their birth certificates and getting passports.
d. How did playing football help Shivani Toppo?
Answer: Playing football kept her healthy as she didn't feel very good when she stayed at home. And her mentor Franz got her to go to school, helped her family to pay her fees initially and later the school waived the fee.
e. What did Shivani's mother say about her daughter?
Answer: Shivani's mother said that she must study and play as it made her happy. She also said that Shivani helped her with the household work before she went to school and that there was no reason for her to object.
f. How did Shivani's grandfather support her?
Answer: Shivani's grandfather supported her and said it was necessary for her to wear shorts to play football.
g. How did the land prospectors cause problems for the girls?
Answer: The land prospectors come in and buy p[arts of land where the girls practised and made a brick wall around it. So the land is shrinking day by day.
A. 3. Think and answer these questions carefully. HOTS
a. What was Franz Gastler's real reason for teaching the girls to play football and even represent their country in a prestigious tournament?
Answer: The real reason of Franz Gastler's for teaching the girls to play football and even represent their country in a prestigious tournament was that he thought the playing football would encourage the girls to get educated and become confident young women.
b. How did people treat the girl footballers of Jharkhand before Franz helped these talented young women to stand up for their rights?
Answer: The people used to pass the rude remarks. The would say, "why do you walk around in half-pants like boys?" because they thought that the girls were supposed to do housework., were often married off before fifteen and wearing shorts and playing football was unthinkable.
c. Why do we call the girl footballers of Jharkhand India's Pride?
Answer: We call the girl footballers of Jharkhand India's Pride because in the age of 13 or 14, they participated for the prestigious Gasteiz Cup and got the third prize by competing approx four hundred teams in spite of lack of necessary things and without family support.
d. What do we need in order to follow our dreams and achieve what we want?
Answer: We need the strong determination and the will to do something in order to follow our dreams and achieve what we want.
WRITING
B. Describe a scene at a football/cricket/tennis match before the game actually begins. Finish your composition as the match begins.
You might ask why? If so: just think, once you're looking at the match, you will be concentrating on what is happening on the field, but before the game, you look around at the field, the stands, the people, you feel the excitement in the atmosphere, the thrill when the teams run on to the field, the toss of a coin, the national anthems and then the game begins!
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| Girl Footballers of Jharkhand - India's Pride |
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SPELLING AND PRONUNCIATION
C. A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning. The words may be spelled the same, such as suit (noun-a set of clothes) and suit (verb-something that looks good on someone) or differently there (an adverb of place) and their (possessive determiner).
Match the following homonyms with their meanings.
| a. waive | A soldier on a horse (in the middle ages) |
| b. wave | Put aside or give up; be excused from paying fees (here) |
| c. night | Move ones hand up and down to say goodbye or to show you recognize someone. |
| d. knight | Comes after every day |
| e. brake | Floating objects away from the shore to mark a particular spot in the sea |
| f. break | Teach someone to play game; the person who teaches someone to playa particular game |
| g. allowed | Use a device in a vehicle to stop or slow it down |
| h. aloud | Say something so that it can be heard |
| i. boys | Snap or smash something into bits |
| j. buoys | A wheeled passenger vehicle pulled by horses; a compartment in a train |
| k. coach | Young human males |
| l. coach | Let someone do something |
VOCABULARY
D. 1. Some more Compound adjective: Match the following and put hyphens between the words. The fourth column has some helpful clues.
| absent | tanned | absent-minded | forgetful |
| daily | soiled | daily-wage | getting paid a day at a time for work done |
| long | wage | long-term |
covering a long period of time |
| one | minded | one-way |
allowing movement in one direction |
| shop | off | shop-soiled |
clothes lying unsold for long that have become dirty |
| sun | term | sun-tanned |
become darker due to sun bathing |
| well | way | well-off |
rich |
D. 2. Fill in the blanks in the following sentences with the correct compound adjectives given above.
a. People working on building sites are often daily-wage labours.
b. The absent-minded old lady just couldn't remember where she had put her spectacles.
c. The businessman was so well-off, but he just didn't want to part with his money.
d. We all became sun-tanned after sitting on the beach the whole day.
e. I didn't realise that the jeans were shop-soiled till I looked at them carefully in the car. I had to get the shop to change them for me. I took a long time to get to the shop because it was down a one-way street and I had to turn right around the block to get there.
GRAMMAR
Direct Speech is used when reporting the exact words that a person says. We use quotation marks and punctuation marks in a specific way when writing down what a person says.
Read the following examples and notice how the punctuation marks, quotation marks and capital letters have been used. The words in bold letters are called reporting verbs. We normally use say, said, will say, has said etc. when reporting what people say. We use ask, asked etc. when reporting questions. If we want to add more information about what is said we use other reporting verbs like those given in bold letters in the following conversation.
'My plants have all dried up,' complained Mrs. Kumar.
'Don't you know why that has happened?' asked Mr. Kumar. 'It hasn't rained for weeks. 'The gardener is to blame,' said Raman. 'He should have watered the plants regularly.'
'Stop worrying about it!' said Diya. 'All the gardens down the road are dry.'
'Yes, Diya,' agreed Mr. Kumar, 'we have to conserve water.' (split sentence)
E. 1. Punctuate the following. Put in quotation marks and capital letters as required.
a. why are the dogs barking said mrs. haider they seem to be fighting with each other
⇒ "Why are the dogs barking?" said Mrs. Haider.. "They seem to be fighting with each other."b. where is my handbag asked the lady angrily i put it down on this counter a minute ago
⇒ "Where is my handbag?" asked the lady, angrily. "I put it down on this counter a minute ago."
c. sit down and work out how you want to solve this problem advised the teacher
⇒ "Sit down and work out how you want to solve this problem." advised the teacher.
d. i wanted to be the captain of the team mumbled shekhar why does mohit always get selected to lead the team
⇒ "I wanted to be the captain of the team" mumbled Shekhar. "Why does Mohit always get selected to lead the team?"
e. get out of the room shouted the fireman forget about your things there is no time
⇒ "Get out of the room." shouted the fireman. "Forget about your things there is no time."
f. i must hurry up thought rhea if i want to be in time for the show
⇒ "I must hurry up." thought Reha. "If I want to be in time for the show."
g. where have i put my library book wondered kevin i have to return it today
⇒ "Where have I put my library book?" wondered Kevin. "I have to return it today."
h. why are you crying the lady asked the little boy
⇒ "Why are you crying?" the lady asked the little boy.
i. i don't know where my mother is answered the child
⇒ "I don't know where my mother is." answered the child.
j. do you know your address or your mother's telephone number inquired the lady
⇒ "Do you know your address or your mother's telephone number?" inquired the lady.
Indirect speech does not have the exact words said by someone, but conveys the meaning of what has been said. Indirect Speech is also called Reported Speech.
"Quotation marks are not used in Indirect Speech..
Direct Speech: The boy said, 'The bus is at the bus stop.'
Indirect Speech: The boy said (that) the bus was at the bus stop.
It is not always necessary to use 'that' especially while speaking.
"Use 'said' when you don't want to mention the hearer.
Use 'told' when you want to mention the hearer.
Direct Speech: Ravi said, 'The book is on the shelf.'
Indirect Speech: Ravi said that the book was on the shelf.
Direct Speech: Ravi said to me, 'The book is on the shelf."
Indirect Speech: Ravi told me that the book was on the shelf.
"When the reporting verb is in the past tense, the tenses of the verbs change as follows.
Also note the changes of the underlined pronouns and possessive determiners.
| DIRECT SPEECH |
INDIRECT SPEECH |
| Simple Present Tense |
Simple Past Tense |
| The boy said, 'I am tired.' |
The boy said that he was tired. |
| The girl said, "Neha is my sister |
The girl said that Neha is her sister. |
| Present Continuous Tense |
Past Continuous Tense |
| I said to Ravi, 'You are talking very softly.' |
I told Ravi that he is talking very softly. |
| Past Continuous Tense |
Past Continuous Tense (usually remains the same) |
| Neha said, 'The cats were making so much noise.' | Neha said that the cat were making so much noise. |
| Simple Future Tense |
Simple Future Tense: 'will becomes 'would' |
| Mary said to me, 'I will visit you on Monday.' | Mary said to me that she would visit me on Monday.' |
| Future Continuous Tense |
Future Continuous Tense: 'will' becomes 'would' |
| 'I will be meeting all my friends during the holidays', said Hemant. | Hemant said that he would be meeting all his friends during the holidays. |
E. 2. Match the following sentence halves and write the sentences so formed in your notebook.
| a. The teacher told us that | 1. they had to keep away from the animals. |
| b. The newspaper said that | 2. she was sleepy. |
| c. The zookeeper told the visitors that | 3. they were delighted when they won the prize. |
| d. Our parents said that | 4. she wanted me to settle my cupboard. |
| e. The little girl said | 5 we had to finish our project by Friday. |
| f. The footballers said that | 6. we would be going to Bangkok this summer. |
| g. Grandma told me that | 7. it was going to be a foggy day. |
E. 3. Change the following examples of Direct Speech into Indirect Speech.
b. The farmer said to his sons, 'I will begin ploughing my fields.'
c. The boy said to me, 'My mother is not well.'
