Badminton

Racquet and shuttlecock

Two to four players
Both boys and girls
Maximum twenty-one points
Forty-five minutes game
Hit the shuttlecock over the net into the opponent’s court

Volleyball
Net and volleyball
Six players in a team
Both boys and girls
Maximum fifteen points
One and a half hours’ game
Hit the ball over the net into the opponent’s court

Football
Field, football and goalpost
Twenty-two players in a game
Commonly played by boys
Winner is the team with the most number of goals
One and a half hours’ game
Kick the ball into the opponent’s goal

(a) Fill in the blanks with the correct answers.

Games Badminton Volleyball Football

 Football
Things  Racquet  Net
 Field
required  Shuttlecock  Volleyball
 Goalpost
Number of Six players in a
Two to four players 22 players in a game
players team
One and a half
Duration Forty-five minutes One and a half hours
hours
Winning Most number of
Twenty-one Fifteen
points goals

(b) The school’s Sport Day is around the corner. You plan to participate in one of the games.
Which game would you choose? Give reasons for your choice.

I would choose football because I like football. As a boy, I like exciting games. Football is a
team game. We can foster the sportsmanship between the members of the group. The aim of
this game is to kick the ball into opponent’s goal. It will be very exciting to play for one and a
half hours with my friends.