The Winner Textbook Questions (NCERT Solutions)
Let us do these activities before we read.
1. Look at this picture.
(a) What are these children doing?
(b) Where do you think they are?
(c) What is the time of the day?
Ans.
(a) The children are playing.
(b) They are in the park.
(c) Afternoon
2. Discuss the given questions with your classmates and teacher. You may begin your sentences with—
I go to …
I play with …
The place I go to for playing …
I like playing …
Sometimes I come back …
(a) When do you go to play after school?
(b) Who do you play with?
(c) Where do you go to play in the evening?
(d) Which games do you like playing?
(e) When do you come back home?
Ans.
(a) I go to play in the evening.
(b) I play with my friends.
(c) I go to the park to play with my friends.
(d) I like playing with the ball.
(e) Sometimes I come back home at night.
Let us discuss
1. Read the given lines from the poem. Write the meaning of the lines by identifying the words/expressions in them.
| S.No. | Lines from the poem | Meaning |
| 1. | next to the creek Clue: a small body of water. | |
| 2. | I can’t even catch my breath. Clue: the child has been running. | |
| 3. | When blue dark turns to black Clue: the colour of the sky changes from blue to black. What does it mean? | |
| 4 | trees creep close Clue: it is evening time. Why do you think the trees seem close? |
Ans.
| S.No. | Lines from the poem | Meaning |
| 1. | next to the creek Clue: a small body of water. | The poetess and her friends were playing near the small river in the neighbour’s field. |
| 2. | I can’t even catch my breath. Clue: the child has been running. | The poetess with her friends were running so fast that they were left breathless. |
| 3. | When blue dark turns to black Clue: the colour of the sky changes from blue to black. What does it mean? | The poetess implies the transition from evening ‘blue dark’ to night’s dark ‘black’. |
| 4 | trees creep close Clue: it is evening time. Why do you think the trees seem close? | The trees seem to encroach nearer due to their dark shadows and the night darkness. |
2. Read the poem. Complete the following based on the poem.
The children play ______________ in the ______________ in the neighbour’s ____________. They run so ______________ that they run out of breath. They continue to play till the evening when the blue sky turns ______________, and the trees are not clearly visible. They can feel their feet ______________,now that it is cold. Finally, they stop ______________ and go home as it is night.
Ans. The children play ball in the evening in the neighbour’s field. They run so fast that they run out of breath. They continue to play till the evening when the blue sky turns black, and the trees are not clearly visible. They can feel their feet ache, now that it is cold. Finally, they stop playing and go home as it is night.
Let us think and reflect
1. Read the given lines and answer the questions that follow.
(a) We run so fast
I
can’t
even
catch
my
breath.
(i) Complete the sentence given below with the correct option.
The speaker needs to catch her breath because _______________________________.
a. everyone decides to walk
b. all the friends wish to go home
c. running fast results in being breathless
d. they need to do breathing exercises
(ii) Is the speaker alone? Why do you say so?
(iii) What does the pattern in the lines tell us?
Ans.
(i) c. running fast results in being breathless
(ii) No, the speaker is with her friends as she refers to them as ‘we’.
(iii) The short phrases in the lines depict the breathlessness of the poetess after running.
(b) When blue dark turns to black,
cold grass aches our feet,
trees creep close—
game’s over.
Night wins!
(i) Give one reason why the grass is cold.
(ii) Complete the sentence suitably.
The children’s feet are aching because_________________.
(iii) Why does ‘Night’ win?
Night wins because the ___________________________.
a. time for play has ended
b. children are tired
c. time to play at home begins
d. night follows day
Ans.
(i) The grass is cold because it’s night time and the temperature drops during this time.
(ii) The children’s feet are aching because the grass is cold.
(iii) a. time for play has ended