You will have a deeper knowledge of the English language as well as its practical application in the different facets of your life. You'll no longer be confused about tenses and other grammatical rules. Your strong foundation in grammar will reflect in the way you speak and write. Your reading and writing style will become sharper and you'll be able to apply the strategies you learned to make your communication simple, clear, and effective.

1. Poem Narration
THE FUN THEY HAD

2. 17 May 2157
“Today Tommy found
a real book!”
It was the 17th of
May 2157. Margie,
a young girl, was
writing excitedly in
her diary.
She wrote about
Tommy having
found a real book.

3. &
It was a very old
book, the pages of
which had turned
yellow and crinkly.

4. It reminded Margie
about the time
when her
grandfather had
told her about the
time when he was
a little boy and his
grandfather had
told him of a time
when stories were
printed on paper.

5. &
They turned the
pages of the book
together and found
it strange as the
words on the pages
remained the
same.

6. They were used to
reading telebooks
on the screen and
Tommy, who was
thirteen years old,
had read more
books than Margie
who was eleven.

7. &
They wondered
about the book
and thought
that it would
be useless
once it is read.

8. One would consider
throwing it away
unlike the
television which
had millions of
books in it and so
they would never
throw it away.

9. As Tommy kept
reading, Margie
asked him what
the book was
about to which
he said that the
book was about
school.

10. Geography Test
Margie wondered why
one would write
about school, as she
hated it and now she
hated it even further
because her
mechanical teacher
kept giving her test
after test in
geography and she
was performing badly.

11. This time she was
taken to the
County Inspector.
He was a round
little man with a
red face and a
whole box of tools
with dials and
wires.

12. He was the one who
checked the
mechanical teacher
and repaired it if
needed.
She was hoping that
he takes the teacher
away this time but
that did not happen
and he fixed it in an
hour.

13. Margie frowned while
looking at the black
screen where all her
lessons and questions
were asked but the
thing she hated more
was the part where
she had to submit her
homework and test
papers.

14. She always had to
write them out in a
punch code they
made her learn when
she was six years old,
and the mechanical
teacher calculated
the marks in no time.

15. The inspector spoke to
Margie’s mother and told
her that the geography
sector of the mechanical
teacher was a little too
quick and so Margie
found it difficult. It had
now been set as per her
level which was that of
an average ten year old.

16. While Tommy discussed with Margie
what the book was about, he told her
that hundreds of years ago the
children went to a school and the
teacher did not come home to teach
the children.

17. English
These teachers were
humans and all the
children learned
together from them.

18. Both the kids were
excited to learn
about this unusual
way of learning
and teaching until
Mrs. Jones,
Margie’s mother
came to call her
for school.

19. Margie went to the room
next to her bedroom which
was the schoolroom where
her mechanical teacher was
waiting for her.
It was an arithmetic class
on addition of proper
fractions and the teacher
had asked Margie to insert
the homework of the
previous class into the right
slot.

20. While sitting in
front of the
monitor, she kept
thinking about the
kids must have
loved learning in
the old days and
the fun they had.

21. THEM
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22. ‘The Fun They Had’ is a fiction story that
takes us to the future of education.
Extreme mechanization of education drifts the
children
away from the joy of learning as a human experience.
THEM
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23. Learning for children is fun when they are
accompanied
by their peers and are taught with love and affection
as
that leads to a life-long experience.
This story shows us the downside of
technological development in education.
THEM
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