Across The Wall - Class 5 Evs - Extra Questions

Have you ever played as part of a team of your class, school or neighbourhood? Whom did you play with? What game did you play?

Yes, I had played as part of my school team. We played with the team of another school. We played the game kho-kho.


What did boys do every evening, once the school was over?

Every evening, once the school was over, boys watched as hundreds of school girls crowded the narrow streets. The girls walked on the streets in groups and their only intention was to get straight home. On the contrary the boys used the streets as a place to stand around idling, to play, to try out tricks with their bicycles. They never reached home in time.


Is your team like team Afsana played with at Sholapur or like the Nagpada team? How?

Our team is like the Nagpada team. This is because the Nagpada very good understanding and cooperation between each member of the team. The members respected and encouraged each other and never insulted any one of his/her weakness. We understanding that this unity was their strength which was the reason for their success. We understanding that this unity was their success. Similarly, we also want our team to be perfect and successful. Thus our team is just like the Nagpada team.


In which area other than sports have you heard of women getting recognition?

The other areas apart from sports, where women have got recognition are:
(i) Police Department- Kiran Bedi
(ii) Politics - Indira Gandhi(First Lady Prime Minister of India)
(iii) Politics - Pratibha Patil(First Lady President of India)
(iv) Mountain climbing - Bachandri Pal(First Indian lady who climbed the Everest).


What is the difference between playing for yourself and for the team?

There is a lot of difference in playing for ourselves and for our team. When we are playing for own self, we just think for own victory, we try to prove ourselves excellent and better than others. We just want to listen to our own praise. But when we are playing for the team, we first understand each other, we create a sense of cooperation with each member of the team, we respect each other, we try to teach other and play unitedly as a single team. We play together and work hard to see the victory of the whole team and get praised.


Should the game for boys and girls be different? What do you think?

I think girls are also talented and hardworking as boys. They can play all the games which are played by the boys. Thus there should not be much difference between the games for boys and girls.


Make a list of toys and games that boys typically play and another for girls. If there is a difference between the two lists, can you think of some reasons why this is so? Does this have any relationship to the roles children have to play as adults?

List of toys and games that boys play with: cars, guns, swords, buses, railway trains, lions, etc. (toys), cricket, kabaddi, hockey, football etc. (games). List of toys and games that girls play with: dolls, cooking items, etc. (toys)', badminton, table-tennis, hide and seek, etc. (games). These games are also played by the boys. From the above description, we can infer that there is a difference between the toys with which boys play and the toys with which girls play. The reason behind this is that our society makes clear distinctions between boys and girls. Boys are taught to be tough while girls are taught to be mild. Boys are expected to do works which highlight their manly features but girls are expected to remain in limit with all feminine virtues. All these are ways of telling children that they have specific roles to play when they grow up to be men and women. Later in life, this affects even the subjects they can study or the careers they can choose.


Class 5 Evs Extra Questions