class -9 th (Beehive) chapter 1 FUN AND THEY HAD , THE ROAD NOT TAKEN

 

         E.S. CLASSES BALDEOGARH

                                Class :- 9th

        Chapter -1 (A)

       The Fun They Had (मौज जो उन्होंने की)

I. Answer these questions in a few words or a couple of sentences each.

Q1 :- How old are Margie and Tommy ?

Ans :- Margie is eleven year old and Tommy is thirteen year old .

Q2 :- What did Margie write in her diary ?

Ans :- Margie wrote “Today Tommy  found a real book !” with date 17 May 2157 .

Q3 :- Had Margie ever seen a book before ?

Ans :- No ,Margie had never  seen a book before .

Q4 :- What thing about that the book did she find strange ?

Ans :- She found strange to read words that stood still instead of moving .

Q5 :- What do you think a telebook ?

Ans :- A Telebook is a book that can can be displayed on a screen .

Q6 :- Where was Margie’s school ? Did she have any classmates ?

Ans :- Margie’s school was nest to her badroom . She did not have any classmates .

Q7 :- What subjects did Margie and Tommy learn ?

Ans :- Margie and Tommy read Maths , Geography and History .

 

 

II. Answer the following with reference to the story.

1. “I wouldn’t throw it away.”

(i) Who says these words?

Ans :- Tommy says these words.

(ii) What does ‘it’ refer to?

Ans :- “it” refers to a book .           

(iii) What is it being compared with by the speaker?

Ans :- It is being compared with the television screen .

2. “Sure they had a teacher, but it wasn’t a regular teacher. It was a man.”

(i) Who does ‘they’ refer to?

Ans :- ‘They’ refer to boys and girls of very old schools.

(ii) What does ‘regular’ mean here?

Ans :- Here, ‘regular’ means normal .

(iii) What is it contrasted with?

Ans :- It is contrasted with a man .

 

III. Answer each of these questions in a short paragraph (about 30 words).

Q1 :-  What kind of teachers did Margie and Tommy have?

Ans :-Margie and Tommy had mechanical teachers.

Q2 :- Why did Margie Mother send for The county inspector ?

Ans :-

Q7 :-How does Tommy describe the old kind of school /

Ans:- Tommy describe old school as a special buildings where all the children used to go together . They used to laugh , shout and learn the same thing together in school

Q8 :- How does he describe the old kind of teachers ?

Ans :- He say the old teachers a men who did not live in our houses .

Large answer question

Q1 :- What are the main features of the mechanical teachers and the schoolroom that Margie and Tommy have in the story ?

Ans :- Mechanical teachers – These are the special TV screen where all subject teach him.

Schoolroom – Schoolroom were the rooms next to the bedroom with the mechanical teachers on and waiting for the child .

Q2:- Why did Margie hate school ? Why did she think the old kind of school must have been fun ?

Ans :- She hated school because his teacher had been giving her Geography test after test above her level and she had been doing very badly. She think old school must have been fun because the old school students done the all activity together .

 

 

E.S. CLASSES BALDEOGARH

Class :- 9th

          The Road Not Taken (अलग रास्ता )

I. Answer these questions in a few words or a couple of sentences each.

Q1 :- Where does the traveler find himself ?What problem does he face ?

Ans :- The traveler find himself on a fork path . he is in a problem as he must choose one path and he is unable to decide which one to choose .

Q2 :- Discuss what these pharses mean to you ?

(1)       A yellow wood . 

       Ans :- It refers to forest which has withering leaves as in the season of autumn. .

(2)       It was a grassy and wanted wear .

       Ans :- It means that the path had a lot of grass on it . This means that it had not been walked over by many people .

(3)       The passing there .

     Ans :- It means that when he walked on the path that he had chosen .

(4)       Leaves no step had trodden black .

      Ans :- It means that no one walked over the leaves as they were still green .

(5)       How way leads on to way ?

      Ans :- It means that as we walk on path , we come across more options and make choices further . We keep on walking ahead on that way .

Q3 :- Is there any difference between the two roads as the poet describes them –

(1)     In stanzas two and three ?

Ans :- The two paths were similar . In the beginning the poet felt that one of them was grassy and had not been walked on it for some distance , he realized that it was like the other road .

 

(2)     In the last two lines of the poem ?

Ans :- Here again , the poet talk of his initial descisions when he thought that the road were different and chose the one that had been walked over by lesser number of people .

Q4 :- What do you think the last two lines of the poem mean ? (Looking back , does the poet regret his choice or accept it ?

Ans :- The last two lines of the poem means the acceptance of reality and no he had not regret his choice .