we have conquered air,time and space with the help of scientific invention explain in reference to "the fun they had"
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Chapter 1: The Fun They Had
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Thinking about the text
I. Answer these questions in a few words or a couple of sentences each.
1. How old are Margie and Tommy?
Ans. Margie is eleven years old and Tommy is thirteen years old.
2. What did Margie write in her diary?
Ans. Maggie wrote about the day when Tommy found a real book in their house.
3. Had Margie ever seen a book before?
Ans. No. She had never seen a real book before.
4. What things about the book did she find strange?
Ans. The strange things about the book were that the words did not move around like the ones in a
telebook and the words remained same when they went to the previous page.
5. What do you think a telebook is?
Ans. A telebook is an electronic book which can be read on a television and doesn’t have real pages
made of paper.
6. Where was Margie’s school? Did she have any classmates?
Ans. Margie’s school was next to her bedroom. No, she did not have any classmates.
7. What subjects did Margie and Tommy learn?
Ans. They learnt History, Geography and Algebra.
II. Answer the following with reference to the story.
1. “I wouldn’t throw it away.”
(a) Who says these words?
(b) What does ‘it’ refer to?
(c) What is it being compared with by the speaker?
Ans. (a) Tommy said these words.
(b) It refers to the television.
(c) The television is being compared with the real book that Tommy found.
2. “Sure they had a teacher, but it wasn’t a regular teacher. It was a man.”
(a) Who does ‘they’ refer to?
(b) What does ‘regular’ mean here?
(c) What is it contrasted with?
Ans. (a) The people who lived centuries ago.
(b) The teacher who normally had to teach them in schools.
(c) It is contrasted with the machine teachers they had in their world.
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III. Answer each of these questions in a short paragraph (about 30 words).
1. What kind of teachers did Margie and Tommy have?
Ans. Margie and Tommy had a mechanical teacher. It was black, large and had a screen on it. It taught
the students, gave exercises and asked questions, all in a special room called schoolroom in their
own house. It could also calculate the marks in no time
2. Why did Margie’s mother send for the County Inspector?
Ans. Margie’s mother sent for the County Inspector when Maggie’s Geography marks got worse and
worse. She wanted him to look into the matter.
3. What did he do?
Ans. The County Inspector took the mechanical teacher with him, checked it and then rebuilt it and
returned with it in an hour.
4. Why was Margie doing badly in geography?
Ans. Margie’s mechanical teacher was programmed for a higher grade. Therefore Margie couldn’t
understand the lectures delivered by him which resulted in poor grades.
5. What did the County Inspector do to help her?
Ans. The County Inspector checked the machine and rebuilt it in an hour to help Maggie.
6. What had once happened to Tommy’s teacher?
Ans. Once Tommy’s teacher was taken away for a month since its History sector had become completely
blank.
7. Did Margie have regular days and hours for school? If so, why?
Ans. Yes, Margie had school every day at a fixed time except On Saturday and Sunday. Her mother
believed that little girls learn fast if they take classes regularly.
8. How does Tommy describe the old kind of school?
Ans. According to Tommy, the old kind of school had a special building where all the students of
same age studied the same thing. They were taught by a teacher who was a man and they read
from real books.
9. How does he describe the old kind of teachers?
Ans. The old teachers were humans like them, who delivered lectures, gave homework and asked
questions.
IV. Answer each of these questions in two or three paragraphs (100 –150 words).
1. What are the main features of the mechanical teachers and the schoolrooms that Margie and
Tommy have in the story?
Ans. The mechanical teacher was black, large and had a screen on it. It taught the students, gave
exercises and asked questions, all in a special room called schoolroom in their own house. It
could also calculate the marks in no time. The homework was supposed to be inserted in a slot
provided. The school rooms were right next to their bedrooms unlike the present day schools.
2. Why did Margie hate school? Why did she think the old kind of school must have been fun?
Ans. Margie hated school because she couldn’t understand anything that the mechanical teacher
taught and she was tired of giving back to back tests. She thought the old kind of school must
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have been fun as everyone sat together and studied the same thing and even enjoyed together.
She thought that the children in those days had a social life and friends to have fun with but she
had nobody to play with or have fun
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