Gilli Danda
CBSE · Class 5 · English
Summary of Gilli Danda for CBSE Class 5 English. Key concepts, important points, and chapter overview.
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Overview
Gilli Danda is a poem and language chapter about a traditional outdoor group game. It combines reading, understanding of poetry, vocabulary learning, grammar practice, and simple speaking and writing activities. The chapter also teaches prefixes, abstract nouns, possessive pronouns, synonyms and ant
Key Concepts
The poem describes children playing outdoors
The poem describes children playing outdoors with a stick and a small gilli. It shows joy, freedom, friendship, laughter, and the bright sky and sun a
Gilli Danda is known as tip
Gilli Danda is known as tip-cat in English. It is played with two sticks: a short one called gilli and a long one called danda. One player hits the gi
A prefix is added at
A prefix is added at the beginning of a word to change its meaning. Un + happy = unhappy, which means not happy. Re + draw = redraw, which means draw
Abstract nouns name feelings
Abstract nouns name feelings, thoughts, and ideas. They cannot be touched, smelt, or seen. Happiness is an abstract noun, while rose is a concrete nou
Possessive pronouns show ownership or relationship
Possessive pronouns show ownership or relationship between people and things. Examples include mine, hers, and yours. For example, The book on the tab
Learning Objectives
- Understand the poem about Gilli Danda and its outdoor setting
- Identify the game equipment and basic rules of Gilli Danda
- Learn how prefixes like un- and re- change word meanings
- Differentiate between concrete nouns and abstract nouns
- Use possessive pronouns correctly
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- NCERT Official — ncert.nic.in
- CBSE Academic — cbseacademic.nic.in
- CBSE Official — cbse.gov.in
- National Education Policy 2020 — education.gov.in
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