Thinking about the Text
I. Answer these questions in a few words or a couple of sentences each.
Question 1. How old are Margie and Tommy?
Question 2. What did Margie write in her diary?
Question 3. Had Margie ever seen a book before?
Question 4. What things about the book did she find strange?
Question 5. What do you think a telebook is?
Question 6. Where was Margie’s school? Did she have any classmates?
Question 7. What subjects did Margie and Tommy learn?
Answers
ANswer :
1. How old are Margie and Tommy?
⇒ Margie is eleven and Tommy is thirteen years old.
2. What did Margie write in her diary?
⇒ Margie wrote in her diary “Today Tommy found a real book!”
3. Had Margie ever seen a book before?
⇒ No, Margie had never seen a book before.
4. What things about the book did she find strange?
⇒ The things about the book that she found strange were:
- The pages of the book were yellow and crinkly.
- The words stood still instead of moving.
- When they turned back to the previous page, it still had the same words on it that it had when they first read it.
5. What do you think a tele book is?
⇒ I think the tele book must be a book that gets displayed on the screen of the television.
6. Where was Margie’s school? Did she have any classmates?
⇒ Margie’s school was next to her bedroom.
No, she did not have any classmates.
7. What subjects did Margie and Tommy learn?
⇒ Margie and Tommy learned Geography, History, and Arithmetic.
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