NCERT Class 4 English Santoor Chapter 08 The Lagori Champions PDF Download

Chapter 8: The Lagori Champions

Let us Read

Part I

[Figure: Children playing and talking in a park, See in your textbook]

Prakash: Ravi! How are you?

Ravi: I am fine, Prakash! Let's go and play outside; it's a sunny day.

Prakash: Yes, let's go.

(Ravi and Prakash went to the children's park near their house. A few children were playing there. They waved at Ravi. Ravi waved back and introduced Prakash as his cousin to all his friends. After playing for a while, they started talking.)

Guneet: Tomorrow is the Lagori match. We should include Prakash in our team; he's a good runner.

Deepa: Yes, he is quick.

Prakash: Will somebody please tell me what this Lagori match is about?

(Everybody looked at Prakash with great surprise.)

Guneet: Don't you know Lagori game?

Prakash: No, I don't.

Nidhi: Wait, I will tell you. Lagori is actually a game of seven stones.

Prakash: Seven stones game? How is it played?

(Imran joins them)

Nidhi: Look! Imran is here. He is also a champion of this game. He will explain.

Imran: In Lagori the seven flat stones are stacked one above the other. After that, one team knocks down the stones with a ball, and the other team tries to rebuild the stack while avoiding the ball thrown by the members of the first team or the opponent team.

Prakash: Oh! Okay, you mean Satoliya.

Deepa: What is Satoliya now?

Prakash: In Rajasthan, we call this game Satoliya.

Guneet: Wow! We learned another name of our favourite game. So, in our Sundarpur village, we call it Lagori, and in Rajasthan, it is called as Satoliya.

Imran: Now we know that this game is played in Rajasthan too!

Guneet: Do you know, Prakash, our Lagori team is called by the name of Sundarpur Tigers and our friend Deepa is our captain.

Ravi: No doubt! She runs fast!

Nidhi: Ravi, tell him about our opponent team.

Ravi: Yes, Prakash, we are playing this match with the 'Green Warriors' team from the nearby village.

Deepa: We have to tell Prakash about the game rules also.

Prakash: Yes, please do tell me.

Teacher's Note

A play is written with the speaker's name, then a colon, then the words that person says. The lines in brackets are not spoken; they tell you what the characters do. Read the play aloud with friends, each of you taking one role, and act out the lines in brackets.

Key Points

• The story is written in play format, with dialogues between Prakash, Ravi, Guneet, Deepa, Nidhi and Imran.
• Prakash learns about a game called Lagori, which is played with seven flat stones stacked and knocked down with a ball.
• The same game is known by a different name, Satoliya, in Rajasthan.
• The children's team is called Sundarpur Tigers, captained by Deepa, and their match is against the Green Warriors team.

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