MP Board Class 9th English Solutions Chapter 1 The Fun They Had

Margie wrote about the book in her diary. On the page dated 17 May, 2157, she wrote: ‘Today Tommy Found A Real Book!’.

It was a very old book. Margie’s grandfather once said that when he was a little boy his grandfather told him about a time, when all stories were printed on paper. The pages were wrinkled and yellow. The words stood still. They didn’t move on the screen.

Margie was eleven and Tommy was thirteen. She asked him where he had found that book. He replied that he found that book. He replied that he found that in his house and it was about school. Margie cried ‘School! What was there to write about school as she hated that?

Margie Hated School Because of Mechanical Teacher

Margie always hated school. It was because her mechanical teacher had been giving her test after test in geography. She had been doing worse and worse. At last, her mother sent for the County Inspector.

The County Inspector was a round little man. He had a red face and a box of tools, dials and wires. He took the television teacher away. Margie hoped that he wouldn’t know how to set it right. But after one hour it was brought again before her with its big screen.

Margie hated its slot in which she had to put her homework. She had to write them in a punch code. The Inspector told Margie’s mother that it was not Margie’s fault. The geography sector was geared a little too quick. He had slowed that to an average ten-year level. Margie’s progress had been quite satisfactory. Then he went away.

Tommy told her that it was not their kind of school. That was a kind of old schools which had been hundreds and hundreds of years ago.

The teacher gave homework to students. He also asked them question. Margie told Tommy that man couldn’t be smart enough. But Tommy said he was so.

Tommy told Margie that the teachers did not live in the house as the mechanical teachers ‘lived’. They had a special building. All the kids went there. And they learned the same thing. They were of the same age group.

Margie’s mother Mrs Jones called that it was time for her ‘school’. Margie asked Tommy if she could read the book some more with him after school. Tommy walked away. He had put the dusty old book under his arm.

Margie put her work in the slot. She was thinking about the old schools. All the kids from the neighbourhood came laughing and shouting in the schoolyard. They sat together at the end of the day. They learnt the same things so that they could help one another in their homework. Teachers were human beings.

मार्गी ने अपनी डायरी में पुस्तक के बारे में लिखा। 17 मई 2157 को उसने लिखा: आज टोमी की एक वास्तविक पुस्तक मिली।

यह बहुत पुरानी पुस्तक थीं। मार्गी के दादा ने एक बार कहा था कि जब वह एक छोटा बच्चा था तो उसके दादा ने उस समय के बारे में बताया था जब सारी कहा. नियाँ कागज पर छापी जाती थी। ये पन्ने सिकुड़े हुये और पीले थे। शब्द स्थिर रहते थे। वे पर्दे पर हिलते नहीं थे।

मार्गी ग्यारह वर्ष की थी और टोमी तेरह वर्ष का। मार्गी ने उससे पूछा कि उसे वह पुस्तक कहाँ से मिली। उसने उत्तर दिया कि उसे वह उसके अपने घर में मिली थी। और यह स्कूल के बारे में थी। मार्गी चिल्लाई ‘स्कूल!’ स्कूल के बारे में क्या लिखने को था क्योंकि स्कूल से वह घृणा करती थी?

मार्गी स्कूल से हमेशा घृणा करता थी। परन्तु अब वह और भी अधिक घृणा यान्त्रिक अध्यापक के कारण करती थी जो उसे भूगोल में टेस्ट ले रहा था। वह बुरे से बुरा कर रही थी। अन्त में उसकी माँ ने काउन्टी इन्स्पेक्टर को बुला भेजा।

इन्स्पेक्टर एक गोल छोटा-सा व्यक्ति था। उसका लाल चेहरा था और उसके पास औजारों, डायलों और तारों का बक्सा था। वह टेलिविजन अध्यापक को दूर ले गया। मार्गी को उम्मीद थी कि उसे कैसे ठीक किया जा सकता था। परन्तु एक घण्टे के पश्चात् यह फिर बड़ा स्क्रीन उसके सामने लाया गया।

मार्गी उसके उस छेद से घृणा करती थी जिसमें उसे अपना गृहकार्य डालना पड़ता था। उसे उन्हें छेदों वाले कोड में लिखना होता था।

इन्स्पेक्टर ने मार्गी की माँ को बताया कि यह उसका कसूर नहीं था। भूगोल क्षेत्र थोड़ा-सा अधिक तेज हो गया था। उसने औसतन उसे दस वर्ष के स्तर पर धीमा कर दिया था। मार्गी की प्रगति काफी संतोषजनक थी।

टोमी ने उसे बताया कि यह उनके स्कूल जैसा नहीं था। वह तो पुराने स्कूलों की तरह था जो सैकड़ों को तरह था जो सैकड़ों वर्ष पहले वहाँ हुआ करते थे।

अध्यापक विद्यार्थियों को गृहकार्य देता था। वह उनसे प्रश्न भी पूछता था। मार्गी ने टोमी से बताया कि कोई व्यक्ति काफी चुस्त नहीं हो सकता था। परन्तु टोमी ने कहा वह ऐसे होता था।

उसने और पढाये। टोमी ने मार्गी की बताया कि अध्यापक घरों में वैसे नहीं रहते थे जैसे मशीनी अध्यापक रहते हैं। उनका एक खास भवन होता था। सभी बच्चे उसमें जाते थे और वे सभी एक ही चीज सीखते थे। वे सभी एक ही आयु वर्ग के होते थे।

मार्गी की माँ श्रीमती जॉन्स ने कहा कि उसके स्कूल का समय हो गया है। मार्गी ने टोमी से पूछा कि क्या वह स्कूल के बाद उस पुस्तक को उसके साथ और पढ़ सकती है। टोमी चला गया। उसने धूल भरी पुरानी पुस्तक को अपनी बाजू में दबा लिया था।

मार्गी ने अपना कार्य स्लॉट में डाला। वह पुराने स्कूलों के बारे में सोच रही थी। वे पड़ोस के सारे बच्चे स्कूल के आंगन में हँसते और चिल्लाते आते। वे दिन के अन्त में इकट्ठे बैठते। वह एक सी चीजें सीखते थे ताकि वे उनके गृहकार्य में एक-दूसरे की सहायता कर सकें। अध्यापक मनुष्य होते थे।

I. Answer These Questions.

Q.1. How old are Margie and Tommy?

Ans. Margie is eleven and Tommy is thirteen years old.

Q.2. What did Margie write in her diary?

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

Q.3. Had Maegie ever seen a book before?

Ans. No, Margie had not seen a book before.

Q.4. What things about the book did she find strange?

Ans. She noticed that the pages of the book were yellow and crinkly. The words did not move automatically and the pages could be turned physically. The book once read could be thrown away.

Q.5. What do you think a telebook is?

Ans. A telebook is a real book that can be read on a screen. Millions of books can be installed and none needs to be thrown away. The words on the screen keep moving the way they were supposed to be.

Q.6. Where was Margie’s school? Did she have any classmates?

Ans. Margie’s school was actually a computer screen which was in a room, next to her bedroom. She didn’t have any classmates.

Q7. What subjects did Margie and Tommy learn?

Ans. Margie and Tommy learnt History, Geography and maths.

II. Answer the following with reference to the story.

Q.1. “I wouldn’t throw it away.”

(i) Who says these words?

(ii) What does to?

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

Ans. (i) Tommy.

(ii) ‘It’ refers to the telebook.

(iii) It is being compared to the telebook.

Q.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?

Ans. (i) ‘They’ refers to Tommy’s grandfather’s /grandfather.

(ii) ‘Regular’ here denotes who is present daily and is never absent.

(iii) It is contrasted with a Mechanical teacher.

III. Answer each of these question in short paragraph. (words limit 30)

Q.1. What kind of teachers did Margie and Tommy have?

Ans. Margie and Tommy were taught by a mechanical teacher on the computer screen. All the lesseon were flashed on the screen. They had to answer the questions that were asked.

Q.2. Why did Margie’s mother send for the County Inspector?

Ans. Margie’s mother sent for the County Inspector because Margie’s performance in geography test was deteriorating dayby-day. There was no progress in her.

Q.3. What did he do?

Ans. The County Inspector slowed up the geography section up to an average ten year level. Then he re-assembled the teacher back again.

Q.4. Why was Margie doing badly in geography? What did the County Inspector do to help her?

Ans. Geography subject was set at a higher level in the mechanical teacher. That was why she was doing badly he told her mother that she was not to be blamed for such performance. The county Inspector he slowed down the level to suit Margie’s are assured her mother that she was progressing satisfactory.

Q.5. What had once happened to Tommy’s teacher?

Ans. Once Tommy’s teacher was taken away for nearly because the history sector had blanked out completely.

Q.6. Did Margie have regular days and hours for school? If so, why?

Ans. Yes, Margie had regular days and hours for school. Margie had to attend her school at the same time everyday except on Saturday and Sunday. Her mother insisted that little girls learnt better if they learnt at regular hours.

 Q.7. How does Tommy describe the old kind of school?

Ans. The old kind of school existed hundreds of years ago. All students went a special building where all were taught the same thing.

Q.8. How does he describe the old kind of teachers?

Ans. The old kind of teachers taught the students in a special building. The teacher gave them homework and asked them questions. A teacher taught many children at the same time and according to their mental level.

IV. Answer each of these question in two or three paragraphs. (100-150) words

Q.1. What are the main features of the mechanical teacher and the school rooms that Margie and Tommy have in the story?

Ans. The mechanical teacher was a computer screen on which lessons were explained and taught then questions were asked. Thereafter, tests were given. All work had to be submitted in punch code, The completed work had to be inserted in a slot that was provided in the machine. The mechanical teacher was adjusted according to the age of the child. The mechanical teacher on the screen at a certain time each day except on saturday and Sunday. It assignment home work regularly, questioned and tested without being prompted to do so.

Q.2. Why did Margie hate a school? Why did she think the old kind of school must have been fun?

Ans. Margie’s school was a computer screen in the room next to her bedroom. She had no classmates she learnt only from a mechanical teacher. Margie hated school because as her performance in the geography test was getting work she hoped that the County Inspector wouldn’t be able to put her teacher back together. She hated the homework also.

She thoughted the old schools must gave been fun. She thought that all the students would be laughing and shouting in the schoolyard, sitting together in the school room. They learned the same thing, they could help one another with the homework and talk about it. Moreover, the teachers were humans.

Q.3. Do you agree with Margie that schools today are more fun than the school in the story ? Give reasons for your answer.

Ans. Yes, schools today are more interesting and full of fun as compared to the mechanical schools. Margie’s school was just a screen placed in a room in the house. There was no interaction with other children. children studied in their own homes. All work was done in punch code and submitted in a slot in the computer screen. One can imagine how boring the school life must have been. Whenever we think of a school, we think of it as a building where students of the same, age study together and are taught simultaneously by the same teacher. Students interract and also help one another with their studies. They also laugh and play. school could do nothing.

Margie in her There was no interaction between student and teacher Margie’s pro lem with geography could not be addressed. It required a human being in the form of the County Inspector to identify the problem and correct it.

I. Adverbs

Read this sentence taken from the story:

They had once taken Tommy’s teacher away for nearly a month because the history sector had blanked out completely. The word ‘complete’ is an adjective. When you add-ly to it, it becomes an adverb.

Q.1. Find the sentences in the lesson in the which have the adverbs given in the box below. awfully sorrowfully completely loftily carefully differently quickly nonchalantly.

Ans. They turned the pages, which were yellow and crinkly, and it was awfully funny to read words that stood still instead of moving the way they were supposed to on a screen, you know.

The mechanical teacher had been giving her test after test in geography and she had been doing worse and worse until her mother had shaken her head sorrowfully and sent for the County Inspector.

They had once taken Tommy’s teacher away for nearly a month because the history sector had blanked out completely.

He added loftily. pronouncing the word carefully, “Centuries ago.”

“but my mother says a teacher has to be adjusted to fit the mind of each boy and girl it teachees and that each kid has to be taught differently.”

“I didn’t like it,” Margie said quickly.

“May be,” He said nonchalantly.

Q2. Now use these adverbs to fill in the blanks in the sentences below.

(i) The report must to be ……….. read so that performance can be improved.

(ii) At the interview, Sameer answered our questions ……….. shrugging his shoulders.

(iii) We all behave …………when we are tried or hungry.

(iv) The teacher shook her head ………. when Ravi lied to her.

(v) I …………. forget about it.

(vi) When I complimented Revathi on her sucess, she just smiled …………… and turned away.

(vii) The President of the Company is …………. busy and will not be able to meet you.

(viii) I finished my work ………… so that I could go out to play.

Ans. (i) loftily

(ii) Carefully

(iii) differently

(iv) sorrowfully

(v) completely

(vi) Nonchalantly

(vii) Awfully

(viii) quickly

Q.3. Make adverbs from these adjectives.

Ans. Adjective       Adverbs

(i) angry                  angrily

(ii) happy                happily

(iii) merry                merrily

(iv) sleepy               sleepily

(v) easy                   easily

(vi) noisy                 noisily

(vii) tidy                   tidily

(viii) gloomy          gloomily

II. If Not and unless

Complete the following conditional sentences. Use the correct from of the verb.

1. If I don’t go to Anu’s party tonight, ……..

2. If you don’t telephone the hotel to order food, ………

3. Unless you promise to write back, I ………..

4. If She doesn’t play any games, ………

5. Unless that little bird files away quickly, the cat ………….

Ans. 1. She will be very angry.

2. You may go hungry.

3. I will not write to you.

4. be physically unfit

5. will feast on her.

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