Ncert Solutions For Class 9 English Chapter 1 the Fun They Had

Question 1:
1. Find the sentences in the lesson which have the adverbs given in the box below.

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.
(ii) At the interview, Sameer answered our questions __________ shrugging his
shoulders.
(iii) We all behave __________ when we are tired or hungry.
(iv) The teacher shook her head __________ when Ravi lied to her.
(v) I __________ forgot about it.
(vi) When I complimented Revathi on her success, she just smiled __________ and turned away.
(vii) The President of the Company is __________busy and will not be able to meet you.
(viii) I finished my work __________ so that I could go out to play.

3. Make adverbs from these adjectives.
(i) angry __________     (ii) happy __________
(iii) merry __________   (iv) sleepy __________
(v) easy __________      (vi) noisy __________
(vii) tidy __________     (viii) gloomy __________

Answer:
1. (i) Awfully
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.

(ii) Sorrowfully
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.

(iii) Completely
They had once taken Tommy’s teacher away for nearly a month because the history sector had blanked out completely.

(iv) Loftily
He added loftily, pronouncing the word carefully, “Centuries ago.”

(v) Carefully
He added loftily, pronouncing the word carefully, “Centuries ago.”

(vi) Differently
“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.”

(vii) Quickly
“I didn’t say I didn’t like it,” Margie said quickly.

(viii) Nonchalantly
“May be,” he said nonchalantly.

2. (i) The report must be read carefully so that performance can be improved.
(ii) At the interview, Sameer answered our questions loftily, shrugging his
shoulders.
(iii) We all behave differently when we are tired or hungry.
(iv) The teacher shook her head sorrowfully when Ravi lied to her.
(v) I completely forgot about it.
(vi) When I complimented Revathi on her success, she just smiled nonchalantly and turned away.
(vii) The President of the Company is awfully busy and will not be able to meet you.
(viii) I finished my work quickly so that I could go out to play.

3.
(i) angry Angrily       (ii) happy Happily
(iii) merry Merrily     (iv) sleepy Sleepily
(v) easy Easily         (vi) noisy Noisily
(vii) tidy Tidily         (viii) gloomy Gloomily

Question 1:
Answer these questions in a few words or a couple of sentences each.
1. How old are Margie and Tommy?
2. What did Margie write in her diary?
3. Had Margie ever seen a book before?
4. What things about the book did she find strange?
5. What do you think a telebook is?
6. Where was Margie’s school? Did she have any classmates?
7. What subjects did Margie and Tommy learn?

Answer:
1. Margie was eleven years old while Tommy was thirteen.
2. Margie wrote in her diary, “Today Tommy found a real book!”
3. No, Margie had never seen a book before.
4. On turning the pages of the book, she found it awfully funny to read words that stood still instead of moving the way they were supposed to on a screen. When they turned back to the previous page, it had the same words on it when they read it the irst time.
5. A telebook is a book that could be read on screen. Words move on the screen for the students to read. All the lessons appear on the big screen and are followed by questions from the book.
6. Margie’s school was in her home itself. In fact, it was next to her bedroom. It was a mechanical teacher on whose screen lessons and questions appeared. She had to put her homework in a particular slot and write the answers in a punch code. She did not have any classmates.
7.Margie and Tommy learnt geography, history and arithmetic.

Question 2:
Answer the following with reference to the story.
1. “I wouldn’t throw it away.”
(i) Who says these words?
(ii) What does ‘it’ refer to?
(iii) What is it being compared with by the speaker?

2. “Sure they had a teacher, but it wasn’t a regular teacher. It was a man.”
(i) Who does ‘they’ refer to?
(ii) What does ‘regular’ mean here?
(iii) What is it contrasted with?

Answer:
1. (i) Tommy said these words.
(ii) ‘It’ refers to the television screen, which had a million books on it.
(iii) Tommy is comparing the television screen to the books in the earlier times in which words were printed on paper. He thought that after reading such books, one would have to throw them away. However, he would never have to throw away his telebooks.

2. (i) ‘They’ refers to the students who studied in the old kind of schools centuries before the time the story is set in.
(ii) Here, ‘regular’ refers to the mechanical teachers that Tommy and Margie had.
(iii) The mechanical teacher is contrasted with the teacher of the earlier times, who was a human being.

Question 3:
Answer each of these questions in a short paragraph (about 30 words).
1. What kind of teachers did Margie and Tommy have?
2. Why did Margie’s mother send for the County Inspector?
3. What did he do?

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