Class 10 NCERT Solutions English Chapter 1(D) - The World of Sports

Physically:

Games: Swimming and Soccer

Reasons for your choice:

· Highly recommended for reducing fat;

· Recreational sport.

Mentally:

Games: Chess and Scrabble

Reasons for your choice:

· Makes one focused and sharp;

· Increases vocabulary and knowledge.

Socially:

Games: Snooker and Golf

Reasons for your choice:

· Relaxes tensed mind;

· Sport of name, fame and money.

1. Team Sports: basketball, cricket, soccer

2. Athletics: hurdles, pole vaulting, decathlon

3. Gymnastics:

4. Racquet Sports: squash

5. Water Sports: sculling, kayaking

6. Combat Sports: judo, fencing, malkham, kickboxing, kung fu

7. Target Sports: snooker

8. Motor Sports: Go-Karting, Formula One

9. Equestrian Events: pommel horse, dressage

10. Adventure, Fun and Indigenous Sports: Paragliding, windsurfing, kho kho, snowboarding, kabbadi, golf

The punctuated message is given below:

A new age cycle rickshaw that is light on both - the pockets and the calf muscles of rickshaw-pullers, mobile games designed to battle life - threatening diseases like HIV/AIDS and TB and a low cost computer that enables visually - challenged students to read the textbooks. These are all new inventions.

These are not innovations designed by Phunjshuk Wanngdu or Ranchhoddas Shamaldas Chanchad of 3 Idiots fame. Much before Aamir Khan's Rancho made innovation a household word, these simple but powerful ideas were being quietly conceptualised and put to practice by enterprising Indians in various corners of the country.

Three qualities that Indian golfer Ashok Kumar possesses are:

(b) frankness (e) perseverance (g) goal orientation

It can be said that Ashok Kumar possesses the quality of frankness as he tells a sports journalist "The reason I am here in this swanky restaurant of the Oberoi, sipping coffee with you is because of golf. It has brought me name, fame and money and all that I could possibly ask for in life. Without golf, I am a zero." Ashok also has the quality of perseverance in him. He started off working as an errand boy, then he became a caddie and gradually, he became a successful golfer all due to sheer hard work. Ashok can also be called goal - oriented as he says to the journalist: "For the moment, I eat, drink and sleep golf. There's no distraction in my life."

The examples of sentences that can be made from the given words are:

1. Swanky: Young kids driving swanky cars are a common sight in Delhi.

2. Candour: Talk show hosts are often successful in making politicians and celebrities talk with candour.

3. A far cry from: The movies of Dibaker Banerjee are a far cry from commercial Indian Cinema.

4. Stranger than fiction: The fact that people can kill their own daughters in the name of honour-killing is stranger than fiction.

5. Back to square one: Failure in her attempt to clear the architecture entrance exams made Neha feel as if she was back to square one.

6. By leaps and bounds: As the Commonwealth Games were approaching, the government had to complete the preparations for it by leaps and bounds.

7. Inherent: Playfulness is an inherent quality in children.

8. Maestro: Amjad Ali Khan is a musician who is a sarod maestro.

23 March 2021

It was 10 years ago that I met Ramesh. He was a young Nepali boy who used to sell momos near my centre of dance lessons. He often used to pass by my class. One day I invited him in and asked if he wanted to learn dancing. He replied in the affirmative and I asked him to come for the afternoon classes from the next day. After that there was no looking back. Although he is from Nepal, he has a great passion for Hindi Cinema music. In a year, he was as good as my other students. Later on, I made him an instructor at my dance class. Now, after 10 years, he has made a career for himself as a Bollywood choreographer and lives a comfortable life. Today, I can say that I am very proud of my former student. Both Ramesh and his family are very grateful for all the support I gave him during the last 10 years.