Question

Can someone help me by writing the assignment answer for chapter 1 of total English book grade 9

Answer 1

Answer:

• Have you ever read words on the television (or computer) screen? Can you imagine a time when all books will be on computers, and there will be no books printed on paper? Would you like such books better?

ANSWER:

Yes, I have read e-texts on the computer screen.

Now-a-days, most of the books can also be read online. It can be foreseen that in the future, online and electronic texts shall replace the printed books.

I think such books are better in some respects because, through them, we can extend our scope of knowledge. These books are durable and environment friendly. They do not damage the forest cover of our planet. However, learning without reading from the printed books can turn it into a mechanical activity.

(A model answer has been provided for students' reference. It is strongly recommended that students prepare the answer based on their own experience and understanding.)

Page No 10:

Question 1:

(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?

ANSWER:

Directions for activity: The answer is to be calculated by deducting the present date from the date of Margie's diary entry, i.e. 17 May 2157. If the present date is 17 June 2013, the answer will be 143 years and 11 months. Hence, for this particular date, the answer to this question will be as follows:

Margie's diary entry is 143 years and 11 months ahead from now.

1. Margie is eleven while Tommy is thirteen years old.

2. Margie wrote in her diary, “Today Tommy found a real book!”

3. No, Margie had never seen a book before.

4. Margie found it strange that the words printed on a book stood still instead of moving the way they did on a screen. She also found it odd that the words on a page always remained the same as the first time they were read. Besides, the idea that someone would write a book about schools was itself strange for Margie.

5. A telebook is a book that can be read on screen. Words move on the screen for the readers to read.

6. Margie’s school was in her home itself, right next to her bedroom.

No, she did not have any classmates.

7. Margie and Tommy learnt geography, history and arithmetic.

Page No 10:

Question 2:

Answer the following with reference to the story.

1. “I wouldn’t throw it away.”

(i) Who says these words?

(ii) What does ‘it’ refer to?

(iii) What is it being compared with by the speaker?

2. “Sure they had a teacher, but it wasn’t a regular teacher. It was a man.”

(i) Who does ‘they’ refer to?

(ii) What does ‘regular’ mean here?

(iii) What is it contrasted with?

ANSWER:

1.

(i) Tommy says these words.

(ii) ‘It’ refers to the television screen.

(iii) Tommy is comparing the television screen with printed books of the earlier times.

2.

(i) The word ‘they’ refers to the students who studied in the old kind of schools, centuries before the time the story is set in.

(ii) Here, the term ‘regular’ refers to the mechanical teachers that Tommy and Margie has.

(iii) The mechanical teacher is contrasted with the teacher of the earlier times, who was a man.

I HOPE ITS HEIPS YOU