(Activity) Calculate how many years and months ahead from now Margie’s diary entry is.
Answer these questions in a few words or a couple of sentences each.
1. How old are Margie and Tommy?
2. What did Margie write in her diary?
3. Had Margie ever seen a book before?
4. What things about the book did she find strange?
5. What do you think a telebook is?
6. Where was Margie’s school? Did she have any classmates?
7. What subjects did Margie and Tommy learn?
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(Activity) Margie’s diary entry is 139 and 7 months ahead from now.
1.Margie is 11 years old and Tommy is 13 years old.
2.She wrote about an old paper book that Tommy had found in the attic of his house. The belonged to Tommy’s grandfather’s grandfather when must have been a boy.
3.No, she had not seen a book before. She had only heard about it from her grandfather.
4.There were many things about the book that Margie found strange. First strange thing was the book was a paper book; the second strange thing was that the words in the book did not move as they moved on her computer screen. The third strange thing was that the word remained the same on the page.
5.A telebook is the soft book that can be read only on a screen only. The pages can be scrolled up and down using a mouse or page up and page down buttons.
6.Margie’s school was a room in her home. It had a computer in it connected to the server of the Government’s Education Department. Margie did not have any classmate nor any teacher. Only a computer taught her.
7. Tommy and Margie must have been learning all the basic subjects such as Languages, Arithmetic, geography, sciences, Social Science, Geography, General Knowledge, Computers, etc. But in the story only geography and arithmetic has been mentioned.