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4. ‘It’s not the little girl’s fault, Mrs Jones.’
a. Who is Mrs Jones?
b. Who is the little girl? Why is it not her fault?

c. How does the speaker solve the problem?
5. ‘A man isn’t smart enough.’

a. Who says this to whom?
b. For which task is a man not smart enough?
c. How does the listener respond to this statement?

C. Answer the following questions.

1. Why did Margie feel it necessary to write about the ‘real’ book in her diary?
2. Where did Margie go to school? How many students were there in her class?

3. Describe a mechanical teacher.
4. How did Tommy describe the old school and its teachers to Margie?
5. What did Mrs Jones think about how little girls should be educated? What did she think about
how each child should be taught?

D. Refl ect and answer.

1. Who is being referred to as ‘they’ in the story’s title? Give reasons in support of your answer.

2. What was Margie’s attitude towards the ‘real’ book in the beginning of the story? How does it
change at the end of the story? What does this tell you about the girl?

3. Who had more fun at school according to you? Give reasons for your answer.
4. How can technology make learning a lot more fun? Answer in a short paragraph.

Vocabulary

The story ‘The Fun They Had’ is set in an imaginary future world with highly advanced technology
and novel machines or objects. One of the examples of these novel objects is the ‘telebook’, the idea
of which was new and exciting when this story was written. Today, a few decades into the future, we
have become familiar with e-books and can well imagine a television being able to store a million
books or more. Similarly, there are many other new ideas that science fi ction introduced to the world
which have become commonly-used terms now. Some of them are given in the box below and may
be known to you already.

Fill in the blanks with the correct terms from the box.

alien spaceship robot supercomputer parallel universe
astrogate teleportation cyberspace credit android

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