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Question
Form pairs. Make a list of as many games as you can. (At least 25) Then classify the games using the following criteria:
- Indoor and outdoor games.
- Games played with and without any equipment.
- Games which have one-to-one matches and those in which teams play against each other (Single-player or team)
- Games played mostly by children and games played by adult players.
- Shape and size of the court or field.
Use the following figures to show your classification.
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Solution
| Games played by children | Games played by adults |
| Blind man’s buff | Chess |
| Cops and robbers | Snooker |
| Dodge ball | Hockey |
| Ring a Ring o’ Roses | Cricket |
| Name of the game | Shape of the court field | Size of the field |
| Basketball | Rectangular | 26 m in length, 14 m in width measured from the inside edges of the boundary lines. |
| Boxing | Square | The ring should not be less than 12 feet or more than 20 feet square. The height from the ring floor level to the top rope should not be less than four feet, nor more than five feet. |
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