VELS GLOBAL SCHOOL- NERKUNDRAM

Grade – VI

HOLIDAY ASSIGNMENT

LESSON 1

HOW DADDY PLAYED PING PONG

ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS IN 3-4 SENTENCES

1. What is the name of the game that was invented during Daddy’s school days?
2. What were the objects on which ping pong was played?
3. Why was daddy amazed by the game of ping pong?
4. The narrator says ‘one bright day’. Was it a bright day for daddy and his parents?
5. What were the difficulties that daddy faced while learning the game of ping pong?
6. What effect did the game of ping pong have on little daddy’s studies?
7. What are the different ways of hitting the ping pong ball that little daddy’s mastered?
8. Why does little daddy think that ping pong is a wonderful game?
9. How did the teacher try to correct little daddy?
10. How did the doctor help little daddy to overcome his obsession for ping pong?

LESSON 2

HOW I TAUGHT MY GRANDMOTHER TO READ

1. Where did the girl and her grandmother live? Why would they wait eagerly for the bus?
2. What is the name of the magazine and the novel in the magazine that the girl use to read outfor
her grandmother?
3. Write the story of ‘kashi yatre’ in brief (short)
4. Why did the girl enjoy going for wedding?
5. Why was the grandmother unable to read the novel Kashi Yatre?
6. Why did the grandmother want to learn to read and write? Who taught her to read and write?
7. Why was the day of saraswathi pooja in that year important for the grandmother?
8. Why did the grandmother touch her granddaughter’s feet?
9. What gift did the girl give her grandmother on the occasion of saraswathi pooja?
10. Why did the girl say that her students had passed with flying colours?