The fun they had

- June 26, 2020

Thefun they had

Lesson summery :

The time of story is 17 May 2157. Two characters Margie and Tommy. Margie is eleven years old and Tommy is thirteen. They learn from mechanical teacher. Both are friends. Tommy found a real book means words printed on paper. They learn from the book about old school. The school had a building. Where teacher was humans. And kids come to school. They learn same thing from teacher, can talk about homework with each other. Margie and Tommy like this old kind of school.

سبق کا خلاصہ:

اس کہانی کا وقت ۱۷مئی ۲۱۵۷ ہے۔ اس میں دو کردار ہیں۔ مارگی جو گیارہ سال کی ہے۔ اور ٹامی جو تیرہ سال کا ہے۔ وہ تکنیکی استاد سے پڑھتے ہیں۔ دونوں دوست ہیں۔ ٹامی کوایک اصلی کتاب مطلب ورق پر چھپے ہوئے الفاظ والی کتاب ملتی ہے۔ کتاب پرانے اسکول کے بارے میں ہے۔ اسکول کی عمارت ہوا کرتی تھی۔ استاد انسان ہوتے تھے۔ بچے اسکول آتے تھے۔ ہم عمر بچّے ایک جیسا سبق سیکھتے تھے۔ آپس میں گھرکام پر گفتگو کرتے تھے۔ مارگی اور ٹامی کو پرانے اسکول اچھے لگتے ہیں۔

Activity from text book

Classify

1. Listen carefully and write each word in the appropriate column/columns.

ancient	Modern	futuristic
wheels	Bicycles	flying cars
bullock carts	bullet trains
horse-drawn	school
tonga	robots
tar roads carriages	homework
floppy disks	ships
axes	spaceships
mortar and pestle	aeroplanes
cassettes	computers
brushes	television
hot air balloons	cameras
telephone	windmills
water on tap	audio/video
earthen stoves	earth movers
candles	mobile phones
	headphones
	books
	Notebooks
	tests
	vacuum cleaners
	ball pens
	solar lamps
	umbrellas
	electric lamps
	fans
	air conditioners
	grammar
	Geography
	Microbiology

2. Listen to the pronunciation of these words and practise saying them properly yourself.

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
• grandfather	گرینڈفادر	داد جان
• Geography	جیوگرافی	جغرافیہ
• satisfactory	سیٹسفیکٹری	اطمینان بخش
• superior	سپریئر	اعلی
• pronouncing	پروننسنگ	تلفظ
• betcha	بیٹچا	شرطیہ
• nonchalantly	نانشلینٹ لی	آہستہ سے

Word	Meaning
instead of	کی بجائے
supposed to	مفروض
Waste	ضائع
Throw	پھیکنا
Scornful	کراہیت سے بھرا
mechanical	تکنیکی
Geared	گیئر
Average	اوسط
Actually	حقیقت میں
Progress	ترقّی
Pattern	طرز
Disappointed	مایوس
Loftily	شان سے
Anyway	بہرِحال
enough	کافی
Probably	شاید
Except	مثتسنی
Addition	اضافہ
Fractions	کثر

1. When does the story take place ?

Ans: The story takes place on 17 May 2157.

2. What does Margie mean by ‘a real book’ ?

Ans: Margie means by ‘a real book’, it’s a book with pages. And words printed on pages.

3. Margie and Tommy use ‘telebooks’. What are they like ?

Ans: Margie and Tommy use ‘telebooks’. They are like book on television screen. The word moves.

4. Margie uses a diary. What would it be like ?

Ans: Margie uses a diary. It would be like a digital note book. She has to type it, in computer.

5. What do we understand by the words, ‘took the teacher apart’?

Ans: We understand by the words, ‘took the teacher apart’, the parts of mechanical teacher loosen in parts. In order to repair it.

6. Which part of the machine did Margie hate most ?

Ans: Margie hated the most homework slot part. Where she has to put homework and test paper.

7. What fault did the Inspector repair ?

Ans: The Inspector repaired the Geography sector, which was geared a little too quick. He fixed it to an average ten years old girl.

8. What is Margie like as a student-bright, average or below average ?

Ans: Margie is like as an average student because the county Inspector had set the Geography sector, for a ten years old average girl. And her performance was quite satisfactory.

9. Do you think the school described in the ‘book’ existed’?

Ans: Yes, I think the school described in the ‘book’ existed’. In fact, my school is the same as described in the book. We have building called school. We have human teacher. And we all come to school and learn there.

10. Do you think Tommy likes the school in the olden days ? centuries ago ?

Ans: Yes, I think Tommy likes the school in the olden days, because he liked to read about school from the book. And he thinks the human teacher knows as much as computer.

11. Is Tommy Margie’s brother or friend ? Find the sentences that help you to decide that.

Ans: No, Tommy is not Margie’s brother, he must be his friend. They weren’t even half finished when Margie’s mother called, “Margie ! School !”, and He walked away whistling, the dusty old book tucked beneath his arm. These lines tell us that they are friends.

12. Would you like your own mechanical teacher ?

Ans. Yes, it’s good to learn from mechanical teacher, but I also want to go and learn from human teacher.

13. Do you agree with Margie about the fun they had in old school?

Ans: Yes, I agree with Margie about the fun they had in old school, because all the kids from their whole neighbourhood came, laughing and shouting in 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. And the teachers were people.

14. What changes would you like to see in your own school ?

Ans: My school is the best school. Yet I would like to see these changes in my school, there should be no bulling among student. Everyone must respect each other.

15. Do you have fun playing/studying with your friends ?

Ans: Yes, I have fun playing and studying with my friends. We learned same thing, we talk and help each other in studies. We play together and support each other in the game.

16. Do you have fun playing video/ mobile games? Which games do you play ?

Ans: Yes, I have fun playing mobile games. I play candy crush on my mobile. But my mother says, I should not over use mobile.

1. Use the proper punctuation mark.

(a) Where did you find it

Ans: “Where did you find it?”

(b) What’s it about

Ans: “What’s it about?”

Ans: “They had a teacher.”

(d) How could a man be a teacher

Ans: “How could a man be a teacher?”

(e) Sure, if they were the same age

Ans: “Sure, if they were the same age.”

2. The following sentences have an unusual meaning in the context of the story. Write what these sentences would mean today, and what they mean in the context of the story.

(a) She had been hoping they would take the teacher away altogether.

Ans: This sentence would mean today, to take the teacher away with him from the school. But in the context of the story this means, they would take the mechanical teacher away with them to the laboratory to fix it.

(b) They had taken Tommy’s teacher away for nearly a month.

Ans: This sentence would mean today, that they had taken the human teacher away for nearly a month. But in the story, this sentence means they had taken Tommy’s mechanical teacher way for nearly a month because it’s History sector was blank out completely.

Ans: In the time of story the teacher is not human it was mechanical teacher. But today we have human teachers and not he mechanical teacher like the one in the story.

(d) How could a man be a teacher ?

Ans: Today we have humans as teacher. But in time of the story was mechanical teacher.

(e) A teacher has to be adjusted to fit the mind of each boy and girl it teaches.

Ans: Today teacher teaches same thing to all student. It is good that we can learn together. But in the story the mechanical teacher can be adjusted according to the mind of each boy and girls it teaches.

Write words related to the following words. (At least ten words each.)

Book

1) Pages

2) Print

3) Author

4) Binding

5) Library

6) Reading room

7) Bookseller

8) Bestseller

9) Bookstall

10) Cover page

11) Index

12) Page no.

13) Tittle

14) Topic

15) Paragraph

16) Introduction

School

1) Student

2) Teacher

3) Study

4) Play

5) Playground

6) Library

7) Class room

8) Black board

9) Duster

10) Chalk

11) Time table

12) Exam

13) Activity sheet

14) Result

15) Bench

16) Homework

17) Practical

18) Period

19) Vacation

Family

1) Father

2) Mother

3) Home

4) Relation

5) Brother

6) Bonding

7) Mummy

8) Relatives

9) Care

10) Support

4. Discuss: How would you like to learn -from a human teacher or a mechanical teacher ?

Present your arguments in the form of a chart.

Human teacher		Mechanical teacher
Advantages	Disadvantages	Advantages	Disadvantages
care	Same topic for all	Digital	No feeling
Help	Less variation	According to the need	No understanding
Understand	Has to come school	With learner mind	Mechanical
Smart	more control	Attractive	Has to go as it is

Some extra question for Homework

1. What is the time of the story?

Ans. The time of the story is 17 May 2157.

2. What did Margie write that night in her diary?

Ans: Margie wrote that night in her diary that Tommy found a real book.

3. What was the page headed?

Ans: The page was headed 17 May 2157.

4. What did Margie’s grandfather once say?

Ans: 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.

5. How were the pages of the real book?

Ans: The pages of the real book were yellow and crinkly.

6. How Tommy explained books on television screen?

Ans: Tommy explained books on television screen as there were million of book and we don’t throw it away when we through it.

7. How old Margie was?

Ans: Margie was eleven years old.

8. How old Tommy was?

Ans: Tommy was thirteen years old.

9. What is the difference between tele books and real book?

Ans: Telebooks are million on television. Real books are printed on papers.

10. Where did Tommy find real book?

Ans: Tommy found a real book in his house attic.

11. What was the book about?

Ans: The book was about old school.

12. Why did Margie hate school?

Ans: Margie hated school because the Mechanical teacher had been giving her test after test in Geography and she had been doing worse and worse.

13. In which subject was the mechanical teacher giving Margie test after test?

Ans: The mechanical teacher was giving Margie test after test in Geography.

14. Who was sent for?

Ans: The county Inspector was sent for.

15. How was the county inspector in appearance?

Ans: The county Inspector was a round little man with a red face and a whole box of tools with dials and wires.

16. What did Margie hope?

Ans: The county Inspector took the mechanical teacher apart. Margie had hoped he wouldn’t know how to put it together again.

17. What was the problem with the mechanical teacher?

Ans: The problem with the mechanical teacher was, the Geography sector was geared a little too quick.

18. Why did the county inspector pat on Margie’s head?

Ans: The county Inspector patted on Margie’s head because her performance was satisfactory and the problem was with the mechanical teacher.

19. Why had they taken Tommy’s mechanical teacher away for a month?

Ans: They had taken Tommy’s mechanical teacher away for a month because the History section was blank out completely.

20. How did Tommy explain the old school from the book?

Ans: Tommy explained the old school from the book as that was old kind of school. They had human teachers. They had a special building and all the kids went there. And all the kids learned the same things.

21. Why was the Mechanical ready on same time?

Ans: The Mechanical teacher always ready on the same time because Margie’s Mother said little girls learned better if they learned at regular hours.

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