The Fun They Had Class 9 Questions and Answers
Textbook Questions:
Thinking about the Text
Activity: Calculate how many years and months ahead from now Margie’s diary entry is?
Answer: About one hundred and thirty-nine years and two months ahead.
I. Answer these questions in a few words or a couple of sentences each:
इन प्रश्नों का कुछ शब्दों व वाक्यों में उत्तर दो:
Question 1.
How old are Margie and Tommy?
मार्गी और टॉमी कितने बड़े हैं ?
Answer:
Margie is eleven and Tommy is thirteen years old.
Question 2.
What did Margie write in her diary?
मार्गी ने अपनी डायरी में क्या लिखा ?
Answer:
She wrote in her diary, “Today Tommy found a real book.”
Question 3.
Had Margie ever seen a book before?
Answer:
No, she had never seen a book before.
Question 4.
What things about the book did she find strange?
उसने पुस्तक के विषय में क्या अजीब बाते पाईं ?
Answer:
It was printed on paper. The words stood still and did not move as they did on a screen. When she turned back to the page before, it had the same words on it that it had when she read it for the first time.
Question 5.
What do you think a telebook is?
टेलीपुस्तक क्या है? आप क्या सोचते हैं ?
Answer:
It is floppy when inserted into a computer, the text comes on the screen. In other words, a tale book is a book having e-text.
Question 6.
Where was Margie’s school ? Did she have any classmates ?
मार्गी का स्कूल कहाँ था ? क्या उसके कक्षा के कुछ साथी थे?
Answer:
Margie’s school was the room next to her bedroom. No, she did not have any classmates.
Question 7.
What subjects did Margie and Tommy learn?
मार्गी और टॉमी कौन-से विषय पढ़ते थे ?
Answer:
They learned History, Geography, and Arithmetic.
II. Answer the following with reference to the story :
कहानी के संदर्भ में निम्नलिखित का उत्तर दो:
Question 1.
I wouldn’t throw it away.
(i) Who says these words?
Answer:
Tommy says these words.
(ii) What does ‘it’ refer to ?
Answer:
‘it’ refers to television screen with telebooks on it.
(iii) What is it being compared with by the speaker?
Answer:
It is being compared with a printed paper book.
Question 2.
‘Sure they had a teacher, but it wasn’t a regular teacher. It was a man.’
(i) Who does they refer to ?
Answer:
“They’ here refers to the kids of the past – hundreds of years ago.
(ii) What does ‘regular’ mean here?
Answer:
“regular’ here means normal, of the usual kind, i.e., mechanical teacher.
(iii) What is it contrasted with ?
Answer:
It is contrasted with the human teacher who used to be in the past.
Short Answer type Questions
III. Answer each of these questions in a short paragraph (of about 30 words) :
प्रत्येक प्रश्न का उत्तर एक छोटे पैरे में दें (लगभग 30 शब्दों में)
Question 1.
What kind of teachers did Margie and Tommy have ?
मार्गी और टॉमी के किस प्रकार के अध्यापक थे ?
Answer:
Margie and Tommy had a mechanical teacher. He taught them subject sector using a television screen. He also gave them tests and homework. He used to check their answers quickly and gave them marks.
Question 2.
Why did Margie’s mother send for the County’s Inspector ?
मार्गी की माँ ने कॉन्टी इन्सपेक्टर को क्यों बुला भेजा?
or
Why was Margie’s mother upset with Margie’s performance in geography? What did she do?
मार्गी की माँ मार्गी की भूगोल में प्रगति से दुखी क्यों थी? उसने क्या किया?
Answer:
Margie’s mechanical teacher was giving her test after test in Geography and she had been doing worse and worse. This worried her mother. She sent for the County’s Inspector to find out the cause of Margie’s poor performance and its remedy.
Question 3.
What did he do?
उसने क्या किया ?
Answer:
The County’s Inspector took the mechanical teacher apart and checked it thoroughly. He found that the Geography sector was geared a little too quick. He slowed it up to an average ten year level.
Question 4.
Why was Margie doing badly in Geography? What did the County Inspector do to help her?
मार्गी भूगोल में खराब क्यों कर रही थी ? कॉन्टी इन्सपेक्टर ने उसकी सहायता करने के लिए क्या किया?
Answer:
In fact, Margie’s poor performance was not due to any fault in her. Her Geography sector was geared a little too quick. The Inspector slowed it up to an average ten year old level so that Margie could coup with it.
Question 5.
What had once happened to Tommy’s teacher?
एक बार टॉमी के अध्यापक को क्या हुआ?
Answer:
Once his History teacher was taken away for a month because it had blanked out completely.
Question 6.
Did Margie have regular days and hours for school? If so, why?
क्या मार्गी के स्कूल के निश्चित दिन और घंटे होते थे ? अगर ऐसा था तो क्यों था ?
Answer:
Yes, Margie had regular days and hours for school. Everyday it was always on at the same time except on Saturday and Sunday because her mother thought that little girls learnt better if they learnt at regular hours.
Question 7.
How does Tommy describe the old kind of school?
टॉमी पुराने किस्म के स्कूलों का वर्णन कैसे करता है ?
Answer:
The old kind of school had a special building and not set up in a house. All the kids went there for studying. All the kids of the same age learnt the same things. The teacher was a real man and not a mechanical or Robotic teacher.
Question 8.
How does he describe the old kind of teachers ?
वह पुराने किस्म के अध्यापक का वर्णन किस प्रकार करता है ?
Answer:
He was a real man and not a Robot or mechanical teacher. He was quite smart and knowledgeable. He taught the kids, gave them homework and asked questions.
Long Answer type Questions
IV. Answer each of these questions in two or three paragraphs (100-150 words).
प्रत्येक प्रश्न का 2 अथवा 3 वाक्य-खंड में उत्तर दो ( 100-150 शब्दों में)|
Question 1.
What are the main features of the mechanical teachers and the schoolrooms that Margie and Tommy have in the story?
कहानी में मार्गी तथा टॉमी के स्कूल कक्षों और मशीनी अध्यापकों को मुख्य रूप/लक्षण क्या हैं?
Answer:
Margie and Tommy have mechanical teachers. These mechanical teachers are machines or Robots. They have sectors of different subjects having set text, speed and level. Mechanical teacher teach kids using sector of a particular subject. They teach kids on TV screen, give them tests and homework. Kids write in punch code. The mechanical teacher checks it in no time and gives marks. These teachers could tell how the child was performing but they could not make out why a particular child was performing bad.
For this, they had to be taken to the County Inspector. He would take the teachers apart, check their speed and level and gear them to the level of the student. As the County Inspector did in the case of Margie who was performing bad in Geography because the speed of the sector was fast and level higher than her age-level.
Sometimes the whole sector was wiped out. The blanked out sector had to be filled in again as it happened in the case of Tommy’s history sector. This could take even a month. The schoolroom was not in a separate building but located in the house itself. Each student had his own schoolroom. There were no other students or classmates with them. The school had regular hours and days since it was felt that kids learnt better if they had regular timings and hours. Mothers normally set these schools and reminded the kids to attend it. Saturdays and Sundays used to be holidays.
Question 2.
Why did Margie hate school? Why did she think the old kind of school must have been fun?
मार्गी स्कूल से घृणा क्यों करती थी? वह क्यों सोचती थी कि पुरानी तरह के स्कूल मजेपूर्ण होते होंगे?
Answer:
The Mechanical teacher of Margie was an unattractive, dull, black, ugly box. Moreover, it gave her a lot of tests and homework which she had to insert everyday before the start of a new lesson. She hated to take tests and do the homework, 80, she hated the school. Margie thought old type of schools must have been fun. They were in a separate building and not in the house itself. Children came to it laughing and shouting. The encouraging, welcoming smile of a human teacher might have been an added attraction. The students of the same age group were taught the same things and had the same homework. Thus, they could have helped each other in doing the homework. Studying and enjoying together must have been a great fun.
Question 3.
Do you agree with Margie that schools today are more fun than the school in the story? Give reasons for your answer.
क्या आप मार्गी से सहमत हैं कि आज के स्कूल कहानी के स्कूल से ज्यादा मजेदार हैं ? अपने उत्तर के लिए कारण दो।
Answer:
I fully agree with Margie that schools today are more fun than the school in the story. The very first positive thing is the congenial atmosphere, the green surroundings and open ground. Today’s school throbbing with life is inviting whereas the dull drab atmosphere of the school in the story is repulsive (opposite of attractive). Second thing is the human teacher who is friendly, sympathetic having encouraging, welcoming smile. The mechanical teacher of the story is dull, black, ugly box, without any feeling.
The third thing is the company of the classmates. Man is a social animal and enjoys society. Children laughing, shouting, learning, playing together, having similar problems, helping each other in solving them, doing similar sorts of follies and faults–all these add to the fun. Moreover it gives you the feeling of oneness or togetherness. The school in the story is a lonely place with a solitary student and no classmate to share your woes and worries. The various co-curricular activities and projects make school an interesting place where learning becomes a fun and not a burden.
Thinking about Language
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.
Question 1.
Find the sentences in the lesson which have the adverbs in the box below.
Answer:
awfully
sorrowfully
completely
loftily
carefully
differently
quickly
nonchalantly
Question 2.
Now use these adverbs to fill in the blanks in the sentences below:
(i) The report must be read _____ So that performance can be improved.
Answer:
Carefully
(ii) At the interview, he answered our questions _____, shrugging his shoulders.
Answer:
nonchalantly
(iii) We all behave _____ when we are tired or hungry.
Answer:
differently
(iv) The teacher shook her head _____ when Ravi lied to her.
Answer:
sorrowfully
(v) I _____forgot about it.
Answer:
completely
(vi) When I complimented her on her success, she just smiled _____ and turned away.
Answer:
loftily
(vii) The President of the Company is _____ busy and will not be able to meet you.
Answer:
awfully
(viii) I finished my work _____ so that I could go out to play.
Answer:
quickly
Remember :
An adverb describes action. You can form adverbs by adding-ly to adjectives.
Spelling note : When an adjective ends in -y, the y changes to i when you add -ly to form an adverb.
For example: angr-y → angr-i-ly
Question 3.
Make adverbs from these adjectives.
- angry angrily
- happy happily
- merry merrily
- sleepy sleepily
- easy easily
- noisy noisily
- tidy tidily
- gloomy gloomily
II. If not and unless
- Imagine that Margie’s mother told her, “You’ll feel awful if you don’t finish your History lesson.”
- She could also say: “You’ll feel awful unless you finish your History lesson.” Unless means if not. Sentences with unless or if not are negative
conditional sentences. Notice that these sentences have two parts. The part that begins with if not or unless tells us the condition. This part has a verb in the present tense (look at the verbs don’t finish, finish in the sentences above).
The other part of the sentence tells us about a possible result. It tells us what will happen (if something else doesn’t happen). The verb in this part of the sentence is in the future tense (you’ll feel/you will feel …). Notice these two tenses again in the following examples :
| (Future Tense) | (Present Tense) | |
| • There won’t be any books left | unless | we preserve them. |
| • You won’t learn your lessons | if | you don’t study regularly. |
| • Tommy will have an accident. | unless | he drives more slowly. |
Complete the following conditional sentences. Use the correct form of the verb.
1. If I don’t go to Anu’s party tonight, _____.
Answer:
she will feel bad.
2. If you don’t telephone the hotel to orderfood, _____.
Answer:
you will remain hungry.
3. Unless you promise to write back, I _____.
Answer:
I will not write you.
4. If she doesn’t play any games, _____.
Answer:
she will grow fat.
5. Unless that little bird flies away quickly, the cat _____.
Answer:
will pounce upon it/will kill it.
Writing
A new revised volume of Issac Asimov’s stories has just been released, Order one set. Write a letter to the publisher, Mindfame Private Limited, 1632 Asaf Ali Road, New Delhi, requesting that a set be sent to you by Value Payable Post (VPP), and giving your address. Your letter will have the following parts.
Answer:
G-146, L.I.C. Colony
New Delhi-87
5th May, 20…
The Publisher
Mindfame Private Ltd.
1632, Asaf Ali Road, New Delhi.
Dear Sir,
Sub. : Request for sending a new revised volume of Issac Asimov’s Stories
Kindly send me one set of new revised volume of Issac Asimov’s stories by VPP at the above address at your earliest. Also check the number and sequence of pages and the firm binding before packing. Any damaged piece will have to be replaced at your cost.
Yours sincerely,
Pankaj
Iv. Very Important Examination Questions:
I. Extract-based Objective Type Questions
Read the extracts given below carefully and answer the questions with the help of the given options :
1. 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. And when they turned back to the page before, it had the same words on it that it had when they read it the first time.
(i) The words on the pages were _____
(a) dancing
(b) moving
(c) rotating
(d) still
Answer:
(d) still
(ii) When they turned back to the page before, the words on the page _____.
(a) were different from earlier
(b) were same as earlier
(c) were less than earlier
(d) were more than earlier
Answer:
(b) were same as earlier
(iii) The pages were yellow and crinkly because
(a) the book was yellow in colour
(b) yellow colour had fallen on it
(c) the book was quite old
(d) there were yellow pictures on it
Answer:
(c) the book was quite old
(iv) The words move when they are on a
(a) book
(b) wall
(c) screen
(d) notebook
Answer:
(c) screen
(v) Who are they’referred to here as?
Answer:
Margie and Tommy who had found a real book with words that stood still instead of moving are referred to here.
(vi) Why were they surprised?
Answer:
They were surprised because they had always read a telebook which was read on a computer or television screen by means of electronic apparatus but now they had found a printed book with pages and words that did not move.
(vii) What kind of books they were studying in their schools?
Answer:
They did not have any books; they used to read everything on the screen.
(viii) What kind of pages the book had?
Answer:
The book had yellow and crinkly pages.
Question 2.
Margie always hated school, but now she hated it more than ever. 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.
(i) Margie hated _____ more than ever.
(a) friends
(b) school
(c) teacher
(d) playing
Answer:
(b) school
(ii) Her mechanical teacher _____
(a) gave her lot of homework
(b) scolded her in class
(c) gave her test’s in geography
(d) punished her everyday
Answer:
(c) gave her test’s in geography
(iii) The county inspector was sent for by _____.
(a) Margie
(b) her mother
(c) her school principal
(d) her grandfather
Answer:
(b) her mother
(iv) The meaning of ‘worse’ is _____.
(a) dirty
(b) bad
(c) shabby
(d) careless
Answer:
(b) bad
(v) Why did Margie hate school more now?
Answer:
Margie hated school more now because the mechanical teacher was giving her test after test in geography. She had been doing worse and worse in these tests.
(vi) How did Margie’s mother react?
Answer:
Margie’s mother was very sorrowful after knowing about the bad performance of Margie in the geography test day after day. So, she called the County Inspector to evaluate Margie’s performance.
(vii) What did the mechanical teacher use to do?
Answer:
The mechanical teacher always used to give her tests in geography.
(viii) Who sent for the county inspector and why?
Answer:
The county inspector was sent for by Margie’s mother because her performance in geography was gradually degrading day by day.
Question 3.
The inspector had smiled after he was finished and patted Margie’s head. He said to her mother, “It’s not the little girls fault, Mrs. Jones. I think the geography sector was geared a little took quick. Those things happen sometimes. I’ve slowed it up to an average ten year level. Actually, the overall pattern of her progress is quite satisfactory.” And he patted Margie’s head again.
Margie was disappointed. She had been hoping they would take the teacher away altogether. They had once taken Tommy’s teacher away for nearly a month because the history sector had blanked out completely.
(i) After finishing his work the inspector:
(a) laughed at Margie.
(b) smiled and went away.
(c) smiled and patted Margie’s head.
(d) patted Margie’s back.
Answer:
(c) smiled and patted Margie’s head.
(ii) The inspector told Mrs. Jones that :
(a) it was not Margie’s fault. The geography sector was geared little too quick.
(b) it was Margie’s fault as she had geared the geography sector little too quick.
(c) Margie did not do her home assignments.
(d) he would take the teacher away.
Answer:
(a) it was not Margie’s fault. The geography sector was geared little too quick.
(iii) “Those things happen sometimes means :
(a) the mechanical teacher may have some technical problems.
(b) the geography sector always gear up.
(c) girls may have some problems with mechanical teachers.
(d) Margie was disappointed.
Answer:
(a) the mechanical teacher may have some technical problems.
(iv) Find a word from the passage which means the same as ‘standard’:
(a) fault
(b) geared
(c) level
(d) sector
Answer:
(c) level
(v) Which teacher of Margie is being referred to?
Answer:
The mechanical teacher.
(vi) Who does ‘They’ refer to?
Answer:
The inspectors of the mechanical teachers.
(vii) Why had they taken away Tommy’s teacher?
Answer:
They had taken Tommy’s teacher away for nearly a month because the history sector had blanked out completely.
(viii) Why was Margie disappointed?
Answer:
Margie was disappointed because she had been hoping the inspectors would take her mechanical teacher away altogether but they completed the task in an hour.
Question 4.
Margie was scornful. “School ? What’s there to write about school ? I have school.” Margie always hated school, but now she hated it more than ever.
(i) Why did Margie hate school ?
Answer:
She hated school because it consisted only of mechanical teachers who gave her tests after tests.
(ii) Give the name of the chapter from where this extract has been taken.
Answer:
‘The Fun They Had’
(iii) What kind of teacher Margie had ?
Answer:
Margie had a mechanical teacher.
(iv) How did Margie’s mother react?
Answer:
Margie’s mother was very sorrowful after Margie’s performance in Geography test. So, she called the County Inspector to evaluate Margie’s performance.
Question 5.
Margie did so with a sigh. She was thinking about old schools they had when her grandfather’s grandfather was a little boy. All the kids from the whole neighbourhood came, laughing and shouting in the school yard, sitting together in the school room, going home together at the end of the day. They learned the same things. So they could help one another in the home work and talk about it and the teachers were people.
(i) Margie put the ______ in the slot with a sigh.
(a) history home work
(b) geography test
(c) mathematics home work
(d) english home work
Answer:
(c) mathematics home work
(ii) It is not true about the school of grandfather’s grandfather that _____
(a) all kids went in the same school
(b) all the kids sat together in the class room
(c) all the kids help one another in home work
(d) all the teachers were mechanical
Answer:
(d) all the teachers were mechanical
(iii) Margie was quite _____ about old school.
(a) worried
(b) happy
(c) angry
(d) excited
Answer:
(d) excited
(iv) The word sigh means _____.
(a) to make a deep audible breath
(b) lightening
(c) heating
(d) showing
Answer:
(a) to make a deep audible breath
(v) Margie did so with a sigh because _____.
(a) she was tired
(b) she was busy
(c) she did not like doing it
(d) she wanted to do it in another way
Answer:
(c) she did not like doing it
(vi) The old schools they had when her grandfather’s grandfather was a boy were different from her school because they were _____
(a) school rooms in the homes
(b) gurukuls
(c) a separate building where all students went for education
(d) none of these
Answer:
(c) a separate building where all students went for education
(vii) Margie’s teacher was a _____.
(a) mechanical teacher
(b) robot teacher
(c) human teacher
(d)student teacher
Answer:
(a) mechanical teacher
(viii) Margie _____ with a sigh.
(a) read a book
(b) replied to her teacher
(c) inserted her homework
(d) studied on a computer
Answer:
(c) inserted her homework
(ix) Margie thought of grandfather’s grandfather because _____
(a) she was missing him
(b) she had got a book of his times
(c) she had got a photograph of her grandfather’s grandfather
(d) her father told her about him
Answer:
(b) she had got a book of his times
(x) The children in the earlier schools went to the schools and :
(a) felt lonely.
(b) sat in a room and just studied mechanically.
(c) played and studied together.
(d) studied one by one.
Answer:
(c) played and studied together.
(xi) What did Margie put into the slot with a sigh?
Answer:
Margie put her mathematics homework into the slot with a sigh.
(xii) What was not true about the school of grandfather’s grandfather ?
Answer:
There were no mechanical teachers in the school of grandfather’s grandfather. All were real people.
(xiii) What kind of school did the grandfather’s grandfather have ?
Answer:
The grandfather’s grandfather had a school where the kids from the whole neighbourhood came, sat together in the school room and went home together.
(xiv) How was Margie’s school different from the school mentioned here?
Answer:
Margie studied at home, under a mechanical’ teacher, and read the lessons appearing on a screen.
Question 6.
Tommy looked at her with very superior eyes. “Because it’s not our kind of school, stupid. This is the old kind of school that they had hundreds and hundreds of years ago.” He added loftily, pronouncing the word carefully, “Centuries ago”. Margie was hurt, “Well, I don’t know what kind of school they had all that time ago.” She read the book over his shoulder for a while, then said, “Anyway, they had a teacher.”
“Sure they had a teacher, but it wasn’t a regular teacher. It was a man.”
“A man? How could a man be a teacher ?”
(i) Why was Margie upset ?
Answer:
Margie was upset because she did not know what kind of school they had centuries ago.
(ii) Which school Tommy was referring to?
Answer:
Tommy was referring to the old kind of school.
(iii) What do you mean by ‘anyway they had a teacher’?
Answer:
“Anyway, they had a teacher” means they had a human being as a teacher.
(iv) Find the opposite word of ‘inferior’ from the passage.
Answers :
Opposite of inferior’ is ‘superior’.
Question 7.
He was a round little man with a red face and a whole box of tools with dials and wires. He smiled at Margie and gave her an apple, then took the teacher apart. Margie had hoped he wouldn’t know how to put it together again, but he knew how all right, and an hour or so, there it was again, large and black and ugly with a big screen on which all the lessons were shown and the questions were asked. That wasn’t bad.
(i) What do you mean by ‘Took the teacher apart’?
Answer:
‘Took the teacher apart’ means to open up the machine.
(ii) How can you say that the inspector was a friendly man ?
Answer:
The inspector smiled at Margie and gave her an apple. These gestures show that he was a friendly man.
(iii) What had Margie hoped for ?
Answer:
Margie had hoped that the inspector would not know how to repair the computer.
(iv) Find the word from the above passage which is the opposite of beautiful’?
Answer:
Opposite of beautiful is ‘ugly’.
Short Answer type Questions
II. Answer the following questions in about 30-40 words :
Question 1.
What did Margie have problem in Geography ?
मागी को भूगोल से परेशानी क्यों थी ?
Answer:
Margie had problems in Grography. She was doing loadly in Geography because the Country Inspector found that the geography sector was geared a little too quick. She slowed it upto an average tenyear level.
Question 2.
Why did the County Inspector’s visit disappoint Margie?
क्षेत्र निरीक्षक के आने से मार्गी निराश क्यों हुई?
Answer:
Margie hoped that the County Inspector would take the teacher away nearly for a month as the History sector had blanked out completely. She could get no time to relax or escape studying Geography.
Question 3.
What did Margie’s grandfather tell her about the books of olden times ?
मार्गी के दादा ने उसे पुराने जमाने की पुस्तकों के बारे में क्या बनाया?
Answer:
Margie’s grandfather told her that when he was a little boy childhood grandfather told him that there was a time when all stories were printed on paper. The words stood still and did not move as they do on a screen.
Question 4.
Describe the teachers Margie and Tommy had. Why did Margie’s mother send for the County Inspector?
मार्गी और टॉमी के अध्यापकों का वर्णन करो। मागी की माँ ने काउन्टी इंस्पेक्टर को क्यों बुलाया?
Answer:
Margie and Tommy had a mechanical – teacher. He taught them the subject sector using a television screen. He also gave them tests and homework. He used to check their answers and gave them marks.
Margie’s mother sent for the County Inspector as Margie was not doing well in Geography.
Question 5.
What type of books did Margie and Tommy read? How were they different from a real book?
मार्गी और टॉमी किस प्रकार की पुस्तकें पढ़ते थे? वे असली पुस्तक से कैसे भिन्न थीं?
Answer:
They read tele-books. The words came on the screen and kept moving as they read them. In the real book, the words were printed. They did not move. When they turned back to the page before, they remained the same.
Question 6.
How did Tommy find the ‘real’ book different from a tele book?
टॉमी को टैली बुक और असली पुस्तक में अंतर कैसे पता चला?
Answer:
Tommy found a real book from the attic of his house. It was a very old book having yellow, crinkly pages. They found it funny. The real book was printed on paper. The words stood still. Whereas in a telebook, the words came on screen and kept moving as they read them. In a real book when they turned back to the previous page, it had the same words on it that it had when they read it for the first time. Their television screen had a million telebooks on it.
Question 7.
What is a slot ? Why does Margie hate it the most ?
स्लोट क्या है? मार्गी को उससे सबसे ज्यादा नफरत क्यों थी?
Answer:
A slot is a groove or a slit or narrow opening in a machine to insert something in it. Margie hates it the most because she had to insert her homework and test papers in it for getting it checked or marked.
Question 8.
How did Tommy describe the ‘old kind of school’?
टॉमी ने ‘पुराने ढंग के स्कूल’ का वर्णन किस प्रकार किया?
Answer:
Tommy described the old kind of school which they had hundreds and hundreds of years ago. There was a special building of the school and the children went there to study. All the children of the same age group learned the same thing in the school
Long Answer type Questions
III. Answer the following questions in 100-150 words:
1. What did Margie think about the old schools where the whole neighbourhood studied together? Do you feel she is right?
मार्गी पुराने स्कूलों के बारे में क्या सोचती थी जहाँ पूरा अड़ोस-पड़ोस एक साथ पढ़ता था? आपको क्या लगता है कि वह सही है?
Or
Margie thought about how kids loved going to school in the old days. She thought about the fun they had. Give reasons to support your answer.
अथवा
मार्गी सोचती थी कि कैसे पुराने दिनों में बच्चों को स्कूल जाने से प्यार था। वह सोचती थी कि उनके कितने मजे थे। अपने उत्तर को कारणों से समर्थन कीजिए।
Answer:
In the beginning when Margie heard about the shools in old days, she was full of disbelief. Later on she wondered about how schools must have been in those days. She thought how all the kids from the neighbourhood would go, laughing and talking, to school. They would sit together, learn the same things, talk to each other, and help each other. Also the teachers were not computers or machines, but actual human beings. She thought it would be so much of fun to study like that.
I completely agree with her. When there are no classmates or friends with whom you can share your joys and sorrows and discuss your academic problems, that school would be very boring and monotonous. One has to stare at a screen to learn something. A good and smiling teachers, helping friends and a school to go will make a child’s life colorful and interesting.
Margie, after knowing about schools of olden days, was initially in disbelief. Later, she wondered about how schools must have been in those days. She thought how all the kids from the neighbourhood would go, laughing and talking, to school. They would sit together, learn the same things, talk to each other, and help each other. Also, the teachers were actual human beings! In fact, she thought that it would be so much of fun to study like that.
I completely agree with her. I mean, imagine not meeting your classmates or making new friends, and staring at a screen to learn something. A smiling teacher, understanding friends, and a school to go to, all make a child’s life interesting. We really do have fun now!
Question 2.
Compare and contrast the Futuristic School in the story with school of today? Which do you think is better? Why?
कहानी के भविष्य के स्कूल से आजकल के स्कूल की तुलना करो | आपको विचार में कौन- सा अधिक श्रेष्ठ है? क्यों?
Or
Do you agree with Margie that schools today are more fun than the school in the story ? Give reasons for your answer.
क्या आप मानते हैं कि आज के स्कूलों में कहानी के स्कूल से अधिक मजा होता है? अपने उत्तर के कारण दें?
Or
Compare and contrast the teachers of today with the mechanical teachers and school rooms that Margie and Tommy have in the story?
आजकल के अध्यापकों को मार्गी और टॉमी के मकेनिकल अध्यापकों और स्कूल के कमरों से तुलना करो|
Answer:
The Futuristic school in the story is totally different from the school of today. It is located in the house itself. There is a separate school for every kid. The mechanical teacher teaches, gives homework and tests and checks them. There are no classmates. The schoolroom is lonely and the atmosphere is dry, drab, dull and repulsive.
Today’s school has a separate building. Students come to it willingly – green surroundings, open grounds and the company of classmates is inviting. The human teacher with his sympathetic, affectionate, encouraging smile is welcoming. There is a good rapport between the teacher and the student. Studying, playing, learning same things together, doing the same homework and helping each other is enjoyable. Participating together in various Co-curricular activities develops team spirit, co-operation, discipline and other human qualities or values.
School of today caters to all-round development of the child, prepares him to face life successfully. It makes learning fun and enjoyable. Thus it is better than the futuristic school in the story.
Question 3.
What did the County Inspector do to enable Margie understand geography in a better way?
काउन्टी इंस्पेक्टर ने मार्गी को भूगोल अच्छी तरह से समझने के लिए क्या किया?
Answer:
When Margie was not faring well in Geography, her mother sent in for the County Inspector. After examining the mechanical teacher thoroughly, he said to Margie’s mother that it was not Margie’s fault. He found that the Geography sector was geared a little too quick. He assured Margie’s mother that such things happen sometimes. He told her that he had slowed the Geography sector up to the level of an average ten-year old. While patting Margie on the head the County Inspector told Margie’s mother that her overall pattern of progress was quite satisfactory.
Question 4.
“The old schools will be considered as fun by the modern generation.” Explain.
“आधुनिक पीढ़ी प्राचीन विद्यालयों को मजेदार मानेगी।” समझाइए।
Answer:
There is no doubt that old schools will be considered fun by the modern generation who have mechanic teachers and individual schoolrooms in the house only. There are no classmates, no company only a lifeless black ugly box who can neither have any sort of interaction with them nor understand their feelings. The modern generation thinks what fun it would have been to go laughing and shouting together to a school in a separate building.
Sitting with classmates, learning the same things, helping each other in studies and doing homework, sharing your problems and worries with your classmates, learning and playing together – all these would have made learning and going to school not a burden but an enjoyable experience. In addition to these, sympathetic, friendly, interactive human teachers who understand your difficulties and feeling will make school an attractive place of learning and having fun.
Question 5.
What difference do you see between the school of the future and that of the current time ? Which one of the two appeals you the most and why?
आधुनिक पीढ़ी एवं भावी विद्यालयों के बीच आप क्या अंतर देखते हैं? आप किस प्रकार के विद्यालयों को अच्छा मानते हैं और क्यों?
Answer:
The schools of the current time are the ones with human teachers teaching the students. The books are printed on papers with the text in ink of different colours. The students, in case of doubt in any subject, go to the teachers for clarification. The exams are conducted by the human beings as the teachers. In the schools of the future, there will be virtual classrooms. Learning would be through computers and Robotic teachers. The study material would be available in the form of e-text.
There would be online conduction of the examination. The schools of the current time and the schools of the future have their own pros and cons. However, to me, the schools of the present time appeal much more than that of the future time because I feel that human teachers are invariably the best.
When learning through computers in virtual classrooms, one can find enough material on a variety of subjects but there would not be any assistance of a teacher for the correct interpretation of the subject matter in case the students find it difficult to understand. The human teachers make use of different and interesting tools in order to make the students learn, according to the understanding level of the students.
Question 6.
What according to you is the role of a teacher in a student’s life? How is a human teacher better than a mechanical teacher? Explain in context to the chapter ‘The Fun They Had’.
आपके अनुसार छात्र के जीवन में उसकी क्या भूमिका है? एक यांत्रिक शिक्षक की अपेक्षा मानवीय शिक्षक किस प्रकार बेहतर है? ‘द फन दे हैड’ नामक अध्याय के संदर्भ में इसकी व्याख्या कीजिए।
Answer:
A teacher plays a very significant role in a student’s life. Teachers are the guides, mentors and role models for their students. They contribute substantially in shaping the personality of an individual. The role of a teacher spans-imparting knowledge, making students understand various concepts in a comprehensible manner, clearing their doubts as and when they arise, giving them career guidance, as a counsellor. Due to the fact that teachers work in close proximity with their students and have knowledge and understanding of their strengths and weaknesses, they can give them sound advice and help them to choose a career best suited to them.
Students place a lot of trust and confidence in their teachers and consider them as their ideals. Teachers can successfully help to imbibe and inculcate moral values and high virtues in them and can foster their overall growth and development. According to me, a human teacher is far better than a mechanical one. He can serve as a pillar of strength and provide motivation to the students. Human teachers form an important component of the student’s psychological, social and emotional support system. A mechanical teacher can only disseminate information and knowledge but cannot always aid the students in comprehending and interpretating concepts in an understandable manner like a human teacher can.
I. Summary In English.
Setting : Story is set in 22nd century – about 150 years ahead.
Margie diary note : Margie a little girl of the school in the story makes a diary entry – ‘Tommy found a real book.’
The real book : Tommy found an old real book, printed on paper. Margie was surprised to see such a book. They were using telebooks and had never seen a real book before. The book was on ‘Schools’ as they were centuries ago.
Schools of centuries ago : They were in a separate building. Children came to it willingly. There were human teachers. Kids of the same age group were taught the same things and got the same homework. They could help each other and discuss it.
School in the story : It was located in the house itself. There was an individual school for each child. The mechanical teacher taught using sectors of subjects, gave homework and tests, checked them and gave marks.
Poor performance of Margie in geography : Margie’s teacher was giving her test after test in geography and she was performing worse than worse. This worried her mother, so she sent for the County Inspector. He took the teacher apart. He found that it was going too quick so he set it -slowed it down and set it to the average ten year level.
Margie’s disappointment : Margie thought that the setting of the geography sector would take about one month as Tommy’s history sector did but hers took only one hour. This disappointed her as she was not released of studying geography even for a single day.
Margie’s thoughts : That day when her teacher was teaching her addition of fractions, her thoughts were.(mind was) elsewhere. She was thinking what fun the kids might be having – studying, playing and enjoying together centuries ago.
II. Complete Text with Hindi Translation:
Page 5-6: Margie even wrote about it that night in her diary. On the page headed 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 that there was a time when all stories were printed on paper.
Vocabulary : real (रियल) actual वास्तविक।
अनुवाद : मार्गी ने उस रात अपनी डायरी में भी लिखा। ऊपर पृष्ठ पर लिखा था 17 मई 2157 , उसने लिखा, “आज टॉमी को एक वास्तविक पुस्तक मिली।”
यह एक बहुत पुरानी किताब थी। मार्गी के दादा ने एक बार कहा था कि जब वह एक छोटे-से लड़के थे तो उनके दादा ने उन्हें बताया था कि एक समय था जब सभी कहानियाँ पेपर पर छपती थीं।
Page 6: 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. And then when they turned back to the page before, it had the same words on it that it had when they read it the first time.
Vocabulary : crinkly (क्रिंकली) with many fold or lines सिलवटों वाले; awfully (ऑफुली) dangerously/ impressively डरावने/प्रभावशाली रूप से।
अनुवाद : उन्होंने पन्ने पल्टे जो पीले और सिलवटों वाले हो रहे थे। और उन्हें उन शब्दों को पढ़ना बहुत ही अजीब लग रहा था जो स्थिर थे, हिल नहीं रहे जैसे आपको पता है कि स्क्रीन पर होते हैं और जब उन्होंने पिछला पन्ना पलट कर देखा तो उस पर वही शब्द जो उन्होंने पहली बार पढ़े थे।
Page 6 : ‘Gee,’ said Tommy, ‘What a waste. When you’re through with the book, you just throw it away, I guess. Our television screen must have had a million books on it and it’s good for plenty more. I wouldn’t throw it away.’
Vocabulary : through with the book (थ्रू विद द बुक) finished reading पढ़कर समाप्त कर दी; million (मिलियन) ten lakhs दस लाख।
अनुवाद : ‘जी’ टॉमी ने कहा, ‘ कितना व्यर्थ है। मेरा अनुमान है जब आपने पुस्तक पढ़कर समाप्त कर दी तो उसे फेंक दिया। हमारे टेलीविजन के पर्दे पर शायद दस लाख किताबें होंगी और इस पर और बहुत-सी किताबें आ सकती हैं। मैं इसे नहीं फेंकूँगा।”
Page 6 : ‘Same with mine,’ said Margie. She was eleven and hadn’t seen as many telebooks as Tommy had. He was thirteen.
She said, ‘Where did you find it?’
‘In my house.’ He pointed without looking because he was busy reading. ‘In the attic.’
‘What’s it about?’
‘School.’
Vocabulary : telebooks (टेलीबुक्स) books having e-text that can be read on the TV screen of the computer कम्प्यूटर के टी.वी. स्क्रीन पर पढ़ी जाने वाली पुस्तके; attic (एटिक) a space just below the roof used as a storeroom बरसाती।
अनुवाद : “मेरे साथ भी ऐसा ही है,” मार्गी ने कहा। वह ग्यारह वर्ष की थी और उसने इतनी टेली-पुस्तकें नहीं देखी थीं जितनी टॉमी ने जो तेरह वर्ष का था।
उसने कहा, “तुम्हें यह कहाँ से मिली ?”
“मेरे घर में,” उसने बिना देखे उत्तर दिया क्योंकि वह पढ़ने में व्यस्त था। “बरसाती में से”
“यह किसके बारे में है ?”
“स्कूल”
Page 6: Margie wás scornful. ‘School? What’s there to write about school? I hate school.’
Margie always hated school, but now she hated it more than ever. 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.
Vocabulary : scornful (स्कोनफुल) contemptuous, hateful घृणा से पूर्ण; mechanical (मैकेनिकल) of machine मशीन; county (काउन्टी) a territorial division in Great Britain or Ireland सूबा, छोटा कस्बा।
अनुवाद : मार्गी घृणा से भर गई। “स्कूल ?” स्कूल के विषय में लिखने वाली क्या बात है ? मैं स्कूल से घृणा करती हूँ। मार्गी को स्कूल से हमेशा घृणा थी पर अब उसे आगे से भी ज्यादा हो गई। मशीनी अध्यापक उसे भूगोल में टेस्ट पर टेस्ट दिए जा रहा था और वह बद से बदतर | खराब किए जा रही थी जब तक उसकी माँ ने अफ़सोस के साथ सिर नहीं हिलाया और इलाके के इंस्पेक्टर को बुला भेजा |
Pages 6-7: He was a round little man with a red face and a whole box of tools with dials and wires. He smiled at Margie and gave her an apple, then took the teacher apart. Margie had hoped he wouldn’t know how to put it together again, but he knew how all right, and, after an hour or so, there it was again, large and black and ugly, with a big screen on which all the lessons were shown and the questions were asked. That wasn’t so bad. The part Margie hated most was the slot where she had to put homework and test papers. She always had to write them out in a punch code they made her learn when she was six years old, and the mechanical teacher calculated the mark in no time.
Vocabulary : apart (अपार्ट) dismantle पुर्जे खोल दिए; slot (स्लॉट) groove/slit in a machine किसी यांत्र का छेद व दरार; code (कोड) a secret language गुप्त भाषा; calculated (कैलकुलेटिड) counted हिसाब-किताब लगाना।
अनुवाद : वह एक गोल-मटोल, लाल मुँह वाला छोटा-सा आदमी था जिसके पास यंत्रों, डायल तथा तारों का पूरा भरा बक्सा था। वह मार्गी को देख मुस्कराया और उसे एक सेब खाने को दिया फिर उसके अध्यापक के पुर्जे खोल दिए। मार्गी यह आशा करती थी कि उसे उन्हें वापस जोड़ना नहीं आएगा परन्तु उसे बिल्कुल ठीक आता था और लगभग एक घंटे के बाद वह वहाँ था-बड़ा, काला और भद्दा-एक पर्दे के साथ जिस पर सभी पाठ प्रश्नों सहित दिख रहे थे। वह इतना बुरा नहीं था। मार्गी को जिस हिस्से से घृणा थी वह था वह छेद/दरार जिसमें उसे अपना होमवर्क तथा टेस्ट पेपर रखने होते थे। उसे हमेशा उन्हें पंच व छेदों की गुप्त भाषा में लिखना होता था जिसे उन्होंने जब वह छः वर्ष की थी तो सिखाया था। मशीनी अध्यापक हाथों ही हाथों में नम्बरों का हिसाब लगा देता था।
Page 7: The Inspector had smiled after he was finished and patted Margie’s head. He said to her mother, ‘It’s not the little girl’s fault, Mrs. Jones. I think the geography sector was geared a little too quickly. Those things happen sometimes. I’ve slowed it up to an average ten-year level. Actually, the overall pattern of her progress is quite satisfactory.’ And he patted Margie’s head again.
Vocabulary : patted (पैटिड) stroked gently थपथपाना; fault (फाल्ट) mistake गलती; geared (गियर्ड) arrangement connecting a motor with its parts चलने वाले पुर्जे का और पुर्जों से मिलान।
अनुवाद : जब इन्सपेक्टर ने काम समाप्त किया तो वह मुस्कराया और उसने मार्गी का सिर थपथपाया। उसने उसकी माँ से कहा, “श्रीमती जोन्स, इस छोटी-सी लड़की की कोई गलती नहीं है। मेरा ख्याल है कि भूगोल का भाग थोड़ा तेज चल रहा था। ऐसी बातें कभी-कभी हो जाती हैं। मैंने उसे एक औसतन दस वर्ष के स्तर तक धीमे कर दिया है। वास्तव में इसकी प्रगति का सम्पूर्ण नमूना संतोषजनक है और उसने मार्गी के सिर को फिर से थपथपाया।
Page 7: Margie was disappointed. She had been hoping they would take the teacher away altogether. They had once taken Tommy’s teacher away for nearly a month because the history sector had blanked out completely.
So she said to Tommy, ‘Why would anyone write about school?’
Vocabulary : altogether (ऑलटूगैदर) completely सम्पूर्णतया; blanked out (ब्लैंक्ड ऑउट) where nothing is written जहाँ कुछ न लिखा हो।
अनुवाद : मार्गी निराश हों गई। वह आशा कर रही थी कि वे अध्यापक को पूर्णतया बाहर निकाल देंगे। एक बार उन्होंने टॉमी के अध्यापक को लगभग एक महीना बाहर निकाले रखा क्योंकि उसके इतिहास के पूरे भाग का सफाया हो गया था।
अतः उसने टॉमी से कहा, “कोई स्कूल के बारे में क्यों लिखेगा ?”
Page 7: Tommy looked at her with very superior eyes. ‘Because it’s not our kind of school, stupid. This is the old kind of school that they had hundreds and hundreds of years ago.’ He added loftily, pronouncing the word carefully, ‘Centuries ago.’
Vocabulary : stupid (स्टूपिड) foolish मूर्ख; loftily (लोफ्टीली) in a superior way श्रेष्ठता से; centuries (सैन्चुरीज़) hundreds सैकड़ों; ago (ऐगो) before पहले (समय)।
अनुवाद : टॉमी ने उसकी ओर गर्व से देखा। “क्योंकि यह एमारी तरह का स्कूल नहीं है, मूर्ख। यह पुरानी तरह का स्कूल है जों सैकड़ों वर्ष पहले हुआ करता था। उसने गर्व से जोड़ा, शब्द का ठीक से उच्चारण करते हुए, “सैकड़ों साल पहले।”
Page 7-8 : Margie was hurt. ‘Well, I don’t know what kind of school they had all that time ago.’ She vead the book over his shoulder for a while, then said, ‘Anyway, they had a teacher.’
‘Sure they had a teacher, but it wasn’t a regular teacher. It was a man.’
‘A man? How could a man be a teacher ?’
Well, he just told the boys and girls things and gave them homework and asked them questions.’
Vocabulary : hurt (हर्ट) felt bad आहत हुई; for a while (फॉर अ वाईल) for sometime कुछ देर के लिए; regular (रेगुलर) normal, of the usual kind आम किस्म का।
अनुवाद : मार्गी आहत हुई। “अच्छा, मुझे नहीं पता वर्षों गहले कैसे स्कूल होते थे। उसके कंधे पर से कुछ देर उसने वह किताब पढ़ी फिर कहा, “जो भी हो, उनका अध्यापक भी था।”
“निश्चय ही उनका भी अध्यापक था परन्तु वह आम प्रकार का अध्यापक नहीं था। वह एक मानव था।”
“एक मानव ? एक मानव अध्यापक कैसे हो सकता है ?”
“वैल वह लड़के, लड़कियों को कुछ बातें बताता था, होमवर्क देता था और प्रश्न पूछता था।”
Page 8: ‘A man isn’t smart enough.’
‘Sure he is. My father knows as much as my teacher.’
‘He knows almost as much, I betcha.’
Margie wasn’t prepared to dispute that. She said,
‘I wouldn’t want a strange man in my house to teach me.’
Tommy screamed with laughter. ‘You don’t know much. Margie. The teachers didn’t live in the house. They had a special building and all the kids went there.’
Vocabulary : betcha (बैटचा) (I) bet you (in fast speech) I’m sure (informal) शर्त लगाकर कहता हूँ; dispute (डिस्प्यूट) disagree with असहमत होना/बहस में पड़ना; screamed (स्क्रीमड) yelled/cried in shrill voice तीखी आवाज में चिल्लाया।
अनुवाद : “एक आदमी/मानव इतना चतुर नहीं हो सकता।”
“निश्चय ही वह है। मेरे पिता उतना ही जानते हैं जितने मेरे अध्यापक.” “मैं शर्त लगाकरं। निश्चय से कहती हूँ कि वह लगभग उतना ही जानते हैं।”
मार्गी बहस में नहीं पड़ना चाहती थी। उसने कहा, “मैं एक अजनबी को मुझे सिखाने के लिए अपने घर में नहीं सिखाना चाहूँगी।” टॉमी हँसी में चीखा, “मार्गी तुम कुछ नहीं जानती। अध्यापक घर पर नहीं रहते थे। उनकी एक विशेष बिल्डिग होती थी और सभी बच्चे वहाँ जाते थे।”
Page 8 : ‘And all the kids learned the same thing?
‘Sure, if they were the same age.’
‘But my mother says a teacher has to be adjusted to fit the mind of each boy and girl it teaches and that each kid has to be taught differently.’
‘Just the same they didn’t do it that way then. If you don’t like it, you don’t have to read the book.’
I didn’t say I didn’t like it,’ Margie said quickly. She wanted to read about those funny schools.
Vocabulary : sure (शूयर) definitely निश्चय ही; adjusted (एडजस्टिड) fit according to situation स्थिति के अनुरूप ढालना।
अनुवाद : “और सभी बच्चे एक ही चीज़ सीखते थे।”
“निश्चय ही अगर वह एक ही आयु के होते।”
” पर मेरी माँ कहती है की अध्यापक को प्रत्येक लड़के व
लड़की को जिसे वह पढ़ाता है के अनुरूप ढालना पड़ता है और प्रत्येक बच्चे को भिन्न तरीके से सिखाना होता है।”
“ऐसा ही है पर उस समय वह उसे इस प्रकार नहीं करते थे। अगर तुम्हें यह किताब पसन्द नहीं है तो पढ़ना जरूरी नहीं।”
“मैंने यह तो नहीं कहा कि मुझे पसन्द नहीं है,” मार्गी ने जल्दी से कहा। वह उन अजीब स्कूलों के बारे में पढ़ना चाहती थी।
Page 8 : They weren’t even half finished when Margie’s mother called, ‘Margie ! School !’
Margie looked up. ‘Not yet, Mamma.’
‘Now !’ said Mrs. Jones. ‘And it’s probably time for Tommy, too.’
Margie said to Tommy, ‘Can I read the book some more with you after school ?’
‘Maybe,’ he said nonchalantly. He walked away whistling, the dusty old book tucked beneath his arm.
Vocabulary : probably ( प्रोबेबली) possibly संभवतया; non-chalantly (नॉन-चैलैन्टली) not showing much interest or enthusiasm; carelessly ठंडे दिल से, बिना उत्साह से, लापरवाही से; dusty (डस्टी) full of dust धूलभरी; tucked (टक्ड) folded ठूँस ली; beneath (बिनीथ) under नीचे।
अनुवाद : उन्होंने अभी आधी भी खत्म न की थी कि मार्गी की माँ ने पुकारा, “मार्गी ! स्कूल !”
मार्गी ने ऊपर देखा, “अभी नहीं माँ।”
“अब” श्रीमती जॉन्स ने कहा, “और शायद टॉमी का समय भी हो गया है।”
मार्गी ने टॉमी से कहा, “क्या मैं स्कूल के बाद तुम्हारे साथ यह किताब थोड़ा और पढ़ सकती हूँ ?”
“शायद” उसने ठंडे दिल से कहा। वह सीटी बजाता दूर चला गया। कूलभरी, पुरानी किताब उसके बाजू के नीचे ठूँसी रखी थी।
Pages 8-9: Margie went into the schoolroom. It was right next to her bedroom, and the mechanical teacher was on and waiting for her. It was always on at the same time every day except Saturday and Sunday because her mother said little girls learned better if they learned at regular hours.
The screen was lit up, and it said: ‘Today’s arithmetic lesson is on the addition of proper fractions. Please insert yesterday’s homework in the proper slot.’
Vocabulary : except (एक्सेप्ट) not including सिवाय; fractions (फ्रैक्शन्स) divisions of one एक के भाग; insert (इन्सर्ट) put in the required place घुसाना/डालना!
अनुवाद : मार्गी स्कूलकक्ष में गई। यह उसके शयनकक्ष का अगला कमरा था और मशीनी अध्यापक उसकी प्रतीक्षा कर रहा था। यह प्रतिदिन उसी समय पर चालू होता था शनि और इतवार को छोड़कर क्योंकि उसकी माँ कहती थी कि छोटी लड़कियाँ अगर नियमित घंटे पढ़ें तो ज्यादा अच्छा सीखती हैं।
पर्दा प्रकाशित था और कह रहा था, ” आज हिसाब का पाठ विभाजित अंशों को जोड़ने का है। कृपया कल का होमवर्क उपयुक्त छेद में डाल दें।
Page 9: Margie did so with a sigh. She was thinking about the old schools they had when her grandfather’s grandfather was a little boy. All the kids from the whole neighborhood came, laughing and shouting in the schoolyard, sitting together in the schoolroom, going home together at the end of the day. They learned the same things, so they could help one another with the homework and talk about it.
Vocabulary : sigh (साई) breathing out deeply गहरी नि:श्वास/आह भरना; schoolyard (स्कूलयार्ड) encloged open space of school स्कूल का अहाता।
अनुवाद : मार्गी ने आह भरकर ऐसा किया। वह पुराने स्कूलों के बारे में सोच रहीं थी जो उसके दादा के दादा जब छोटे लड़के थे हुआ करते थे। अड़ोस-पड़ोस के सभी बच्चं हैसते चिल्लाते स्कूल के अहाते में आते थे, स्कूल के कमरे में एकट्ठ बैठते थे, दिन के अंत में इकट्ठे घर जाते थे। वे एक-सी चौजें सीखते थे, अतः एक-दूसरे की होमवर्क में सहायता कर सकते थे और उसके बारे में बातें कर सकते थे।
Page 9: And the teachers were people……..
The mechanical teacher was flashing on the screen : ‘When we add fractions \(\frac { 1 }{ 2 }\) and \(\frac { 1 }{ 4 }\) –‘
Margie was thinking about how the kids must have loved it in the old days. She was thinking about the fun they had.
Vocabulary: flashing (फ्लैशिंग) a sudden blaze सहसा प्रकाशित होना।
अनुवाद : और अध्यापक लोग (मानव) होते थे………..
मशीनी अध्यापक सहसा पर्दे पर प्रकाशित कर रहा था, “जब हम विभाजित अंकों \(\frac { 1 }{ 2 }\) और \(\frac { 1 }{ 4 }\) – को जोड़ते हैं ……….”
मार्गी सोच रही थी बच्चों को पुराने दिनों में कितना अच्छा लगता होगा। वह उनके मजे के बारे में सोच रही थी।