NCERT Solution,Class 9(Nine) English Chapter:1 The Fun They Had

 THINK 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:1) Margie is Thirteen (13)and Tommy is fourteen (14) years old.

2. What did Margie write in her diary?

Ans:2) Margie wrote in her diary that today Tommy had found a real book.

3. Had Margie ever seen a book before?

Ans:3) No, Margie had never found a book before.

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

Ans:4) The strange things Margie found about the book is that the word printed on the book stood still instead of moving, just like her computer screen where the words moves.

5. What do you think a  talebook is?

Ans:5)A  book which can be displayed on the screen is called a telebook.

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

Ans:6) Margie's school was in her home just right next to her bedroom.No she did not have any classmates.

7. What subjects did  Margie and Tommy learn?

Ans:7)Margie and Tommy learned Geography, History and Arithmetic.

II. Answers the following with reference to the story.

1. "I wouldn't throw it away."

(i) Who says these words?

Ans: i) Tommy says these words.

(ii)What does 'it' refer to?

Ans: ii) It refers to the Television screen. Where book are read.

(iii) What does it bring compared with by the speaker?

Ans: iii) Tommy is comparing the Television screen to the real book in earlier times in which words were printed on paper. He thought that after reading such a book, one would have to throw them away. However, He would never have to throw away his telebooks.

2."Sure" they had a teacher, but it wasn't a regular teacher. It was a man."

(i) Who does 'they' refer to?

Ans: i)They refers to students who read in the old kind of school before the time of the story is set in.

(ii) What does 'regular' mean here?

Ans: ii) Here regular refers to the mechanical teacher that Tommy and Margie had.

(iii) What is it contrasted with?

Ans: iii) The mechanical teacher constructed with the teacher of the earlier times, who was a human being.