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

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

Margie wrote about the amazement she felt when she saw the real book.

No, Margie had never seen a book before.

She found that the book was yellow and crinkly and something she found to be strange was that the words were still and the text at the previous page was still there and did not vanish like it was supposed to be in a Computer screen.

A telebook was a mechanic book which is displayed on a screen .Through the use of technology, the lessons were imparted into the kids.

Margie’s school was in her home itself, right next to her bedroom. No, she did not have any classmates.

Margie and Tommy learned geography, history and arithmetic.

Margie and Tommy had mechanical teachers. They had large, black and ugly screens on which all the lessons were shown and questions were asked. These mechanical teachers had a fixed time in which the students had to put their homework and test papers. They had to write their answers in a punch code and the mechanical teacher calculated the marks thereafter.

Margie had been given many tests in geography by the mechanical teacher, but there was no improvement in her performance. Marks went from bad to worse. It is for this reason that Margie’s mother sent for the County Inspector to find out the reason because of which this was happening.

Margie was doing badly in geography because the geography sector of the mechanical teacher had been geared a little too quick. The County Inspector told it wasn’t her fault that she was not performing well. The County Inspector slowed down the geography sector of the mechanical teacher to an average ten-year level. He also told Mrs. Jones that Margie’s progress pattern was satisfactory.

Once, The history sector of Tommy’s teacher had once blanked out completely.

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

Tommy described the old kind of school as a specific place where children came and were taught by a human teacher. They studied the same subject at once and were taught uniformly.

Tommy said that the old kind of teachers were men, who taught the students inside a special building. The teachers taught the children in groups and gave them homework and also asked them questions.

Margie hated school because although the lessons were taught through technical devices but they had to write all the homework and assignment on the paper and had to put them in a slot. She had been doing badly in the geography tests that her mechanical teacher had been giving her. The part that she hated the most was inserting the homework and test papers in the slot on the mechanical teacher. She thought that the old kind of school was a specific place where children came and studied together. They also used to travel together which would be fun and exciting.