LEISURE TIME

LEISURE ACTIVITIESLeisure activities are divided into 2

parts –

1. Traditional

2. Modern

Different leisureactivities

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.

BOARD GAMES

BOARD GAMES 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.

SOME BOARD GAMES 1. Snakes and ladders2. Ludo3. Carrom board4. Monopoly5. Business6. Scrabble

7. chess

ADU HULI AATA ( TIGER & GOAT GAME)

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.

PALLANGULI OR MANCALA

  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.

CHAUPAL 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 guesthouse (or mehmaan khana).

THEATRE 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.

STORY TELLINGStorytelling 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.

RK NARAYAN 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.

READING 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.

YOGA

Yoga is divided in 3 parts –

• Asanas • Pranayam • Meditation

ASANASSome asanas –

Adho Mukha Śvānāsana

Adho Mukha Vṛkṣāsana

Anjaneyasana

PRAYANAMPranayama 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').

MEDITATIONMeditation 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.

Made by Manasi Prabhakaran

Class- V BRoll no -21