Class 9 English - Beehive Chapter 1: The Fun They Had - NCERT Solutions

Margie is 11 years old and tommy is 13 years old.

Margie wrote about the astonishment that she felt when she saw the original book.

The answer is No, Margie had never seen a book before.

She found that the book was yellow in color and crinkly and she found to be something strange which was that the words and the text at the previous page was still there and didn't get disappear like it was happened to be in a computer screen.

A telebook was a mechanic book which is presented on a screen. Through the use of this type of technology, the lessons were conveyed into the kids.

School of Margie was in her home itself just right next to her bedroom. No, she didn't have any classmates.

Margie and tommy both had learned geography, history and arithmetic subjects.

(i) “I wouldn’t throw it away”: Tommy had said these words.
(ii) It refers to the television screen on which you could read or watch over millions of books.
(iii) Tommy compared the television screen to the real books in old days times in which words had been printed on paper. He thought that after reading these types of books, would throw them away. However, he would never have to throw away his telebooks.

(i) Here, they represents the students who studied in the old type of schools centuries before the time story is set in.
(ii) Here, regular refers to the mechanical teachers which Tommy and Margie both had.
(iii) The mechanical teacher is compared with the earlier time's teacher who was a human being.

Margie and Tommy had mechanical teachers in their school. They had large, black and ugly screens on which all the lesson were shown or taught and question were asked on that screen. These mechanical teachers had a fixed or particular time in which the students had to put their homework and text papers. They had to write their answer in a punch code and after that the mechanical teacher calculated the marks.

Margie had been given several tests in geography which was taken by the mechanical teacher but there was no progression in her performance. Marks went from bad to the worst. This is the reason that Margie’s mother sent the country inspector to find out the reason because of which this was happening.

The country inspector gave an apple to Margie and initiated his working on the mechanical teacher. Margie expected that the inspector would not know how to put the mechanical teacher together again but somehow he managed to reassemble it by his own efforts. Then he slowed down the geography sector of the mechanical teacher because he was geared a little too fast for an average ten-year-old student.

Margie was doing not so good in geography because the geography sector which is taught by the mechanical teacher had been geared a little too fast. The country inspector told it wasn’t her fault that she was not performing well, then he slowed down the geography sector of the mechanical teacher to an average 10 year level. He also told mrs. Jones that Margie’s progress pattern was very satisfactory.

The history sector had once blanked out completely then Tommy's teacher were taken away for about a month.

Yes, Margie had regular days and hours for the school. Her mother thinks that learning at regular interval of hours helped little children to learn better. Her mechanical teacher was also been available at the same time on weekday but wasn’t available on Saturdays and Sundays.

Tommy described the earlier times school as a specific or a unique place where children came and were taught by a human teacher in the group. They studied the same subject at once and were being taught uniformly.

Tommy said that the earlier times's teachers were usually men who taught the students inside a special building. The teachers taught them in the groups and gave them homework and also asked them some question.

Margie and tommy had mechanical teachers.They had big black screens on which all the lessons were shown and question were being asked. They had a time slot in which students had to put their homework and test papers and also had to write their answer in a punch code and the mechanical teacher calculated the marks immediately. Their schools were in homes ownself. They didn't have any classmates. They learned geography, history and arithmetic subjects. They had regular interval of days and hours for the school. Margie’s school was right next to her bedroom in her home. The mechanical teacher always turned on at the same time every expert Saturdays and Sundays because her mother said that little girls learned better when they learned at regular interval of days and hours.

Margie didn't like the school at all because although the lessons were taught through technical devices but they had to write all the homework and assignments on the paper and had to put them in a slot. She had been doing worse in the geography's subject tests that her mechanical teacher had been giving her. The part that she hated the most was doing the homework and tests papers in the slot of the mechanical teacher. She thought that the earlier time's school was a unique place where children came and studied together. They also used to travel together which would be fun and exciting.

Yes, I agree to the facts that schools of today are more fun than the school are represented in the story. In the story, there is no interaction among the students. Doing homework without anybody’s help and writing them in a punch code seems to be a very boring idea. Moreover, children required a healthier way of learning to develop an understanding about each other listening to teachers explaining lesson is always more fun than reading the entire lesson on a mechanical computer. Also, if any student faces any type of problem he can discuss it with the teacher and to the other kids also. It is impossible to discuss problems and situations with a mechanical teacher which is only programmed to teach in a particular manner.

They turned the pages, which were yellow in colour and crumpled and it was awfully funny to read the words that stood still instead of moving the way were supposed to- on a screen, you know.
- The mechanical teacher had been giving her geography test after test and she had been doing worse and worse until her mother had shaken her head sorrowfully and sent the country inspector to her for finding the reason.
- They had taken away Tommy’s teacher for about a month once because the history sector had blanked out completely.
- He added insolently 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 whichever they teaches and each kid has to be taught differently.
- I didn’t say I didn’t like it, Margie said quickly.
- May be, he said non- chalantly.

(i) carefully
(ii) loftily
(iii) differently
(iv) sorrowfully
(v) completely

(vi) nonchalantly
(vii) awfully
(viii) quickly

The adverbs are as follows:

(i) angrily                      (ii) happily
(iii) merrily                    (iv) sleepily
(v) easily                      (vi) noisily
(vii) tidily                      (viii) gloomily