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Tamil Nadu Board 9th Standard English - Supplementary Unit 2: Book Back Answers and Solutions

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• 1 Mark Questions: Choose the correct answer, Fill in the blanks, Identify the correct statement, Match the following 
• 2 Mark Questions: Answer briefly 
• 3, 4, and 5 Mark Questions: Answer in detail

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Unit 2: The Fun They Had

A. Identify the character or speaker of the following lines.

1. She was given test after test in geography. Margie
2. He was a round little man with a red face and a whole box of tools with dials and wires. County Inspector
3. She had been hoping they would take the teacher away altogether. Margie
4. They learned the same things, so they could help one another with the home work and talk about it.  Students of the old school
5. They had a special building and all the kids went there. Tommy

B. Fill in the blanks with the clues given below to complete the following.

    Tommy and Margie found something about the (1) __________ of the past. Tommy found a (2) __________ which has been printed on paper. The book was old and the pages were (3) __________ At present, the (4) __________ were moving on a television screen. The television had over (5) __________ He had found the old book in the (6) __________ of his house. While reading Tommy found that it was about the old schools. Margie hated school because she was having problems with learning (7) __________ The mechanical teacher was black and large with a screen. Margie hated the slot where she had to insert her homework or (8) __________ Margie did not understand how a (9) __________ could be a teacher and how the students were taught the (10) __________ Then it was (11) __________ for Margie and Tommy. Margie went to the schoolroom in her (12) __________ where the mechanical teacher stood. She was thinking about the old school and how much fun the children had, (13) __________ time together.
Answer Key:

1. schools
2. real book
3. yellow and crinkly
4. words
5. million of books
6. attic
7. geography
8. test papers
9. person
10. same thing
11. time
12. house
13. learning and spending

C. Bring out the difference between your school and the Margie's school in the given tabular column. An example is done for you.

Margie’s School	Your School
Teacher is a Machine.	Teacher is a human being.
Only tele books are used.	Books are in a printed form.
School is at home.	School is in a special building.
There is no playground.	There is a playground.

  

D. Complete the following statements based on your reading.

1. The old book was found by Tommy.
2. Margie was surprised to see the old book because she had never seen a real book before.
3. The mechanical teacher was giving Margie test after test in geography.
4. Margie had to study always at the same time every day, because her mother said little girls had to learn better that way.
5. The geography sector in mechanical teacher was geared a little too quick.

E. On the basis of your reading and using your own ideas, answer the following in about 125 -150 words each.

1. Describe Margie’s mechanical teacher and her classroom in your own words.
        Tommy found the book on 17 May 2157. It was a very old book. The pages were yellow and crinkly, and it was awfully funny to read the words that stood still instead of moving the way they were supposed to, on a screen. 

        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.

2. Why did Margie hate her school? What was she thinking about at the end of the story?
        Margie hated her school because it was not fun. She was doing badly in the geography tests. Her mechanical teacher was giving her test after test. Her mother sent for the country inspector. Margie hoped that the inspector would take the mechanical teacher away.
        She was disappointed when the country inspector managed to assemble all the parts of the mechanical teacher. She hated inserting her homework and test papers in the slot of the mechanical teacher. She did not like to write her answers in a punch code.
        Margie thought that the old type of school must have fun. She imagined all the kids from the whole neighbourhood coming together laughing and shouting in the schoolyard. She thought that they would sit together in the classroom and go home together at the end of the day.
        They learned the same thing and helped one another with the homework and talked about it. The teacher ‘ were human being, all these aspects made her believe that the type of school must have fun.

3. What was strange about the ‘book’? Why did Margie find it strange?
        The pages of the ‘book’ were yellow and crinkly. It was awfully funny to read words that stood still, unlike moving on a screen. When Margie turned back to the previous page, the page had the same words on it, when she read it the first time. All these things were strange for Margie, as she used to read-only telebooks through a computer screen, without any knowledge of a real book.