SSLC (English Medium) Class 6 - Tamil Nadu Board of Secondary Education Question Bank Solutions

Look at these images of different kinds of sports. Identify and name as many as you can with your partner.

Describe any one of them to your partner.

• Name of the sport.
• What equipment is used to play the sport?
• What kind of area/ground/field it is played in?
• How is it played?

Present your sport to the class in four to five sentences.

These phrases will help you.

• I like to play ______.
• I play______ regularly with my friends. 
•  ______is an indoor/outdoor game.
• ______game requires______ players.
• ______has ______these equipments. 
• ______ generally played in a court/ground. 
• I enjoy playing______ game.

Imagine that you are the sports captain of your school. Write a formal letter to the sports captain of another school inviting her/ his team for a friendly match. You may choose any sport. Give details of time and place

Refer to a dictionary for the meanings and choose the odd one.

Cheerful

Refer to a dictionary for the meanings and choose the odd one.

Honest

Refer to a dictionary for the meanings and choose the odd one.

Kind

Refer to a dictionary for the meanings and choose the odd one.

Tiny

Refer to a dictionary for the meanings and choose the odd one.

Ample

Make a diary entry on the impact of a sports personality who is an inspiration to you.

Note

• Date your entry. 
• Write naturally and truthfully.
• Use first person. (I read about Mithali, I like her playing style, etc.,)
• Make your entry informal and expressive.
• Use words that express feelings and write what you feel about it.

Fill in the table.

Contraction is a shortened form of a word or group of words, with the omitted letters often replaced in written English by an apostrophe (').

Read the poem aloud and fill in the wheel with its rhyming pair. Also try giving your own rhyming word. One is done for you.

What qualities are needed to play a game?

What helps one win the game?

How is team spirit created?

Read the lines and answer the questions given below.

It’s helping your fellowman to score When his chances hopeless seem;

Its forgetting self till the game is o’re And fighting for the team.

1. What does 'it' stand for here?
2. Write the rhyme scheme for the above lines.

Read the lines and answer the questions given below.

They may sound your praise and call you great,

They may single you out for fame,

But you must work with your running mate

Or you’ll never win the game;

1. Whom does ‘they’ refer to? 
2. Which line talks about team spirit? 
3. Pick out the rhyming words from the given lines.

Pair work. Discuss with your partner and list out any five team games.

1. ______
2. ______
3. ______
4. ______
5. ______

“Girls, you are a good team.”

Which team do the girls belong to?

Springfields is the name of a______.

The inter-school sports meet refers to competitions among the______.