- Action, Linking, and Auxiliary Verb: Definitions, Functions, and Examples
- Correct Use of Verbs
- Correct Use of Preposition
- Present Perfect vs. Present Perfect Continuous Tense
- Uses of Articles (A, An, The)
- Active and Passive Voice
- Indefinite and Definite Articles: Definition and Examples
- Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives
- Comparison of Adjectives & Adverbs: Examples, Sentences & Exercises
- Adjectives
- Irregular Verbs with Examples
- Modal Auxiliary Verb
- Use of Modal Verbs
- Compound Antecedents: Definition & Examples
- What is an Antecedent? Definition, Meaning & Examples
- What Are Collective Nouns?
- What Are Possessive Nouns? Examples, Definition & Types
Comprehensive English: Sentence Structure: Understanding Grammar
- Parts of Speech
- Degree of Comparison
- Difference Between Direct & Indirect Objects in Sentence Structure
- Gerunds: Are They Verbs? Are They Nouns?
- Conjunction vs. Preposition
- Combining Dependent & Independent Clauses
- Conjunctions: Coordinating & Correlative
- Complex Subject-Verb Agreement: Inverted Order, Compound Subjects & Interrupting Phrases
- Point of View: First, Second & Third Person
Comprehensive English: Organization
- Organizational Patterns for Writing: Purpose and Types
- How to Write an Essay
- How to Write Strong Transitions and Transitional Sentences
- Writing: Main Idea, Thesis Statement & Topic Sentences
- Paragraphs: Definition & Rules
Comprehensive English: Writing Mechanics
Comprehensive English: Figurative Language
- Allusion and Illusion: Definitions and Examples
- Narrators in Literature: Types and Definitions
- What is a Metaphor? Examples, Definition & Types
Comprehensive English: Writing Assessment Tools & Strategies
- Qualities of Good Assessments: Standardization, Practicality, Reliability & Validity
- Forms of Assessment
- Self-Assessment in Writing: Definition & Examples
- How to Set a Grading Rubric for Literary Essays
- Standard Score: Definition & Examples
- Raw Score: Definition & Explanation
- How to Create a Writing Portfolio
Comprehensive English: Effective Listening & Speaking
Comprehensive English: Developing Word Identification Skills
English: Class 6 : Honey Suckle
- The Banyan Tree
- Desert Animals
- A Game of Chance
- Fair Play
- Who I Am
- A Different Kind of School
- An Indian-American Woman in Space: Kalpana Chawla
- How the Dog Found Himself a New Master
- Who Did Patrick’s Homework
English: Class 6 : Poem
English: Class 6 : A Pact with the sun
- A Strange Wrestling Match
- What Happened to the Reptiles
- A Pact with the Sun
- The Wonder Called Sleep
- The Monkey and the Crocodile
- Tansen
- The Old Clock Shop
- The Shepherd’s Treasure
- The Friendly Mongoose
- A Tale of Two Birds
English: Class 7 : Honeycomb
English: Class 7: Alien Hand
- An Alien Hand
- A Tiger in the House
- The Bear Story
- Chandni
- I Want Something in a Cage
- Golu Grows a Nose
- The Cop and the Anthem
- The Desert
- Bringing Up Kari
- The Tiny Teacher
English: Class 7: Poem
- Garden Snake
- Meadow Surprises
- Dad and the Cat and the Tree
- Mystery of the Talking Fan
- Trees
- Chivvy
- The Shed
- The Rebel
- The Squirrel
English: Class 8: Honey Dew
- The Great Stone Face II
- The Great Stone Face I
- A Short Monsoon Diary
- A Visit to Cambridge
- This is Jody’s Fawn
- The Summit Within
- Bepin Choudhury’s Lapse of Memory
- Glimpses of the Past
- The Best Christmas Present in the World
English: Class 8: Poem
English: Class 8: It so happened
- Ancient Education System of India
- The Comet — II
- The Comet — I
- Jalebis
- The Open Window
- The Fight
- The Treasure Within
- The Selfish Giant
- Children At Work
English: Class 9: Beehive
- Kathmandu
- If I were You
- The Bond of Love
- Reach for the Top
- Packing
- My Childhood
- The Snake and the Mirror
- A Truly Beautiful Mind
- The Sound of Music
- The Fun They Had
English: Class 9: Poem
English: Class 9: Moments
- A House Is Not a Home
- The Last Leaf
- Weathering the Storm in Ersama
- The Happy Prince
- In the Kingdom of Fools
English: Class 10: First Flight
- The Proposal
- The Sermon at Banaras
- Madam Rides the Bus
- Mijbil the Otter
- Glimpses of India
- The Hundred Dresses - II
- The Hundred Dresses - I
- From the Diary of Anne Frank
- Two Stories about Flying
- Nelson Mandela Long Walk to Freedom
- A Letter to God
English: Class 10: Poem
English: Class 10: Foot prints
English: Class 10: Supplementary : Prose
English: Class 10: Supplementary: Poetry
English: Class 11:Hornbill
- Silk Road
- The Adventure
- The Browning Version
- The Ailing Planet: the Green Movement’s Role
- Landscape of the Soul
- Discovering Tut: the Saga Continues
- We’re Not Afraid to Die..if We Can All Be Together
- The Portrait of a Lady
English: Class 11: Supplementary
- The Tale of Melon City
- Birth
- The Ghat of the Only World
- Albert Einstein at School
- Ranga’s Marriage
- The Address
- The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse
English: Class 11: Poem
- 2Ajamil and the Tigers
- Ode to a Nightingale
- Felling of the Banyan Tree
- Refugee Blues
- For Elkana
- Hawk Roosting
- Mother Tongue
- The World is too Much With Us
- Telephone Conversation
- Coming
- Let me Not to the Marriage of True Minds
- The Peacock
English: Class 12: Prose
- Going Places
- The Interview
- Poets and Pancakes
- Indigo
- The Rattrap
- Deep Water
- Lost Spring
- The Last Lesson
English: Class 12: Supplementary
Chapter Summary
The story The Fun They Had describes the future is going to be with the apppcation of computers. The future will be excellent with the apppcation of virtual reapty. The virtual classroom helps in learning the actual syllabus through computer software. Moreover, this story is about the fun experience of two children named Tommy and Margie who have experienced the usefulness of the computerised book instead of reading the hard copies. This story also defines how a child who is learning through robots and computer get excited after knowing the ancient practices of school days from her grandparent.
Margie and Tommy
Margie and Tommy both are pving in a futuristic world which is actually the year 2157, and the process of learning in the new generation is different from the old schools. The era, where both Margie and Tommy are pving is operated with virtual reapty. They learn through different computer software and robotic teachers.
Margie was very regular about her school days and hours. The learning process in the school with the computer software and robots gained the interest of Tommy and Margie in the first days. It let them make the learning from the lesions quickly. Due to the regularity maintained by Margie, her mother bepeved that she could learn better if she presents school regularly.
The Teacher
The incident that took place with Tommy’s teacher was unfortunate. Tommy was learning History, Geography, and arithmetic in school with the presence of a virtual reapty and mechanical teacher. The history sector of Tommy’s mechanical teacher was blanked out. This occurred because of taking it away for a month.
The County Inspector
Margie hated going to school. She did not pke the learning system followed in school. She did not pke the way; robots took her geography test repeatedly. She did not pke taking the continued tests with the virtual reapty in school. Hence, Margie’s mother sent her to the County Inspector as she became concerned about her learning and future.
The County Inspector gave Margie an apple with a smile and took the mechanical teacher to fix it. Then he used some tools that completed a fix to the robot and he was able to gear the teacher. He stated that the mechanical teacher’s geography sector was fixed for Margie. The reason behind the bad performance of Margie in geography was the questions that were shown by the mechanical teacher to her was quick for her. Moreover, the questions were repetitive which made her bored to learn geography.
The County Inspector fixed the geography sector of the mechanical teacher and geared it to make it adjustable based on the age of Margie. A quick fix led Margie to grow the satisfaction of learning geography in school with the virtual reapty environment. The process followed by the County Inspector was for slowing down the geography sector for a ten-year-level child. He was successful to make a quick fix based on the issues faced by Margie with the mechanical teacher.
Tommy’s description of “Old Kind of School and Teachers”
Tommy seemed to feel excited about the old schools and the learning process. He described the old schools by phrasing them as hundreds and hundreds of years ago. He also added the term centuries ago about the old school. Tommy described that in the old school, all children came across to learn in the same classroom, and there were humans who taught the lessons. During this story, Margie felt more excited by imagining the old classrooms where children could learn a lesson from a human teacher with friends.
Tommy described the old school day’s teacher as an irregular teacher. As they have been going to school and learning lessons from the robots, Tommy bepeved that human teachers are not regular. He added, it was a man and he bepeved that his father known well as an old school teacher. The concept of the mechanical teacher made him know that teaching from a man was not regular and not sufficient.
Main Features of the Mechanical Teachers and the Schoolrooms
The mechanical teachers have different features to depver lessons to the student which was assigned for. It has big black screens to display the questions from lessons to the students and give tests. Mechanical teachers have slots where students can submit their assigned homework. Students need the write a punch code for their answers that let the mechanical teacher calculate the marks.
The school days of Margie and Tommy are fitted at the home. Students do not interact with their classmates and there is no need to attend school outside their homes. Mechanical teachers were available to teach geography, history, and arithmetic.
Reason for Margie Hating School
Margie felt bored in attaining school due to the teaching process followed by the mechanical teacher. Margie’s mechanical teacher was giving her rapid Geography tests and she was scoring badly. She did not submit the homework to her mechanical teacher. She bepeved that the ancient school days were better due to the presence of classmates and the human as a teacher. For her, learning lessons from humans is way better than a robot. She bepeved all the children could enjoy learning together.
Do you agree with Margie that schools today are more fun than the school in the story? Give reasons for your answer.
Yes, Margie’s thoughts about the school days are right, it was more fun than before. The old school days were much more charming and the presence of humans was more pleasing for everyone in the school.
The process of learning in the old school system was better as there was the presence of humans and the collaborative nature could allow students to help each other. It was more dynamic to get the lessons from a human rather than a machine. The present method of learning lessons from a robot can make children bored. The enjoyment with the classmates is missing by Tommy and Margie in the present time. The process of taking tests used by the old school teachers was better than in the present time.
FAQs
Q1. Why Margie was regular at school?
Ans. They grew an interest in learning from computers instead of reading books, which also led them to bepeve that the process is better than reading hard copies.
Q2. What are the issues with mechanical teachers?
Ans. Any mechanism could lead to issues when mechanisms are used in it, and it can make errors while displaying questions. For example, Margie’s mechanical teacher was giving her test repeatedly and even Tommy’s history teacher blanked out.
Q3. What is the role of the County Inspector in the modern schoopng system?
Ans. The County Inspector can fix the mechanical teacher. Whenever, a problem appears, the County Inspector gear the mechanical teacher based on the requirement and issue.