NCERT Solutions for Class 4th English Chapter 8 The Lagori Champions

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Part I — a new game, an old game. Ravi takes his cousin Prakash to the children’s park. Guneet wants Prakash in the team because “he’s a good runner”. Prakash asks what Lagori is, and everybody looks at him “with great surprise”. What Lagori is. Nidhi says it is “actually a game of seven stones”. Imran explains: the seven flat stones are stacked one above the other; one team knocks the pile down with a ball, and the other team rebuilds it while dodging the ball. One game, two names. Prakash says, “In Rajasthan, we call this game Satoliya .” Guneet is delighted: in Sundarpur village it is Lagori, in Rajasthan it is Satoliya. The rules. Imran adds that the field is marked with a boundary, the players may not go beyond it, and the seven stones are stacked in the centre of the field. Part II —

• A. Answer the following.
• B. Think and discuss.
• C. True or False.
• D. Fill in the blanks.
• A. Speak to your playmates and find out who.
• B. Rearrange the words to form meaningful sentences.
• C. Tick (✓) the right box
• A. Make your own ‘Lagori Team Badge’.
• B. Point out the eight differences between the two pictures.