NCERT Solutions for Class 4th English Chapter 9 Hekko

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What the word means. ‘Hek’ means to challenge and ‘ko’ means tiger . So Hekko means “Challenging the tiger.” The folk story. Long ago humans and animals lived together. They had a disagreement about their superiority. The humans challenged Aakho (The Tiger), and that challenge came to be known as Hekko. Where it is played. The people of the Mokokchung district of Nagaland play Hekko. It is a well-known sport today, and the strongest people in the village are found through this game. The two teams. Hekko is played between two teams, Aami and Aakho , with 11 players in each. A toss before the game decides which team is Aami and which is Aakho. How it is played. A circle is drawn. The Aami team stays inside it by making a human chain; the Aakho team stays outside. Two Aakho players enter and

• Hekko
• declared · superiority · disagreement · surrender
• A. Answer the following.
• B. Think and discuss.
• A. Choose the correct option to complete the sentence.
• C. Match the animals with their sound.
• E. Fill in the blanks using -ed.
• A. Look at the pictures and identify the games being played.
• A. Write about a new game that you would like to play.
• Nagaland is a land of festivals.