The document discusses different types of traditional and modern leisure activities. It provides examples of popular board games from around the world like snakes and ladders and monopoly. It also describes traditional Indian games involving strategy like tiger and goat as well as number and gambling games. Components of yoga like asanas, pranayama and meditation are defined. Reading and storytelling are presented as other leisure activities along with brief biographies of famous Indian author RK Narayan and details about community spaces in rural India called chaupals.

2. Leisure activities are divided into 2
parts –
2. Modern
1. Traditional

3. Different types of leisure time activities
are popular among people today. Some
people like to watch movies or television .
Some like to play ball games or board
games. Everyone have their own choice
of leisure time activities.

5. A board game is a game that involves counters
or pieces moved or placed on a pre-marked
surface or “board", according to a set of
rules. Games can be based on pure strategy,
chance (e.g. rolling dice) or a mixture of the
two, and usually have a goal which a player
aims to achieve.

6. 1. Snakes and ladders
2. Ludo
3. Carrom board
4. Monopoly
5. Business
6. Scrabble
7. chess

7. Adu Huli Aata (Tiger & Goat game): Known
for developing strategy and team work, this
game is a hunting game played by two
players. One player controls three tigers
while the other controls the flock of fifteen
goats. The game ends when either tiger
takes out more than six goats or the goats
manage to immobilise all tigers.

8. Pallanguli is a game played mostly played by
Tamil women, both in Southern India and Sri
Lanka and it is known as the number game.
Men also sometimes play it for gambling
purposes. The board has 14 cups, each player
controlling seven.

9. A chaupal, or chopal, is a community
building or space in the rural areas of
North India and Pakistan. It is the
hub of community life in
villages, especially for male
inhabitants. In smaller villages, a
chaupal can be a simple raised
platform that is shaded by a large
tree, typically a neem, banyan or pipal
fig tree. In larger villages, the
chaupal may be an elaborate structure
that also doubles as a community

10.  Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live
performers to present the experience of a real or imagined
event before a live audience in a specific place. The
performers may communicate this experience to the
audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song,
music or dance. Elements of design and stagecraft are
used to enhance the physicality, presence and immediacy
of the experience.

11. Storytelling is the conveying of events in words,
images and sounds, often by improvisation or
embellishment. Stories or narratives have been
shared in every culture as a means of
entertainment, education, cultural preservation
and to instill moral values. Crucial elements of
stories and storytelling include plot, characters
and narrative point of view.

12. R. K. Narayan (10 October 1906 – 13 May 2001), (shortened
from Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami) was an
Indian author whose works of fiction include a series of books
about people and their interactions in an imagined town in
India called Malgudi. He is one of three leading figures of early
Indian literature in English, along with Mulk Raj Anand and
Raja Rao. He is credited with bringing Indian literature in
English to the rest of the world, and is regarded as one of
India's greatest English language novelists.

13.  Reading is a complex cognitive
process of decoding symbols in order
to construct or derive meaning
(reading comprehension). It is a
means of language acquisition, of
communication, and of sharing
information and ideas.

14. Yoga is divided in 3
parts –
• Asanas
• Pranayam
• Meditation

15. Some asanas –
Adho Mukha Śvānāsana
Adho Mukha Vṛkṣāsana
Anjaneyasana

16. Pranayama is a Sanskrit word meaning "extension
of the prana or breath" or more accurately,
"extension of the life force". The word is
composed of two Sanskrit words, Prāna, life
force, or vital energy, particularly, the breath,
and "ayāma", to extend or draw out. (Not
'restrain, or control' as is often incorrectly
translated from 'yama' instead of 'ayama').

17. Meditation is a practice in which an individual
trains the mind and/or induces a mode of
consciousness to realize some
benefit,although it can be argued meditation
is a goal in and of itself.

18. Made by Manasi Prabhakaran
Class- V B
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