The Computer Game

TS 8th Class English Guide Unit 4C The Computer Game (One act play)

Questions and Answers

Answer the following questions.

Question 1. Who was the Quiz master?

Answer: Gary Lopez is the quiz master

Question 2. Who won the game at the end?

Answer: Joan won the game at the end

Question 3. How did the boy counter the computer?

Answer: The boy requested the audience to ask the questions instead of Gary Lopez, the quiz master. He whispered to the girl to put the question in the form of a command. He deliberately played the trick on him because he knew that the computer was programmed for questions only. It cannot answer for commands. Thus, the boy countered the computer very cleverly

Question 4. Why do you think the computer failed to answer the girls question?

Answer: The computer was programmed for answering the questions in question form only. But the girl asked the question in the form of a command which the computer cannot answer. So, the computer failed to answer the girls question

Question 5. If you were to ask a question, what question would you ask?

Answer: What would you do if you were in my position? This is the question I would ask

Writing

Imagine you owned a robot that could do anything you wanted. But suddenly there was a problem in it and it started doing something different from what you said. Create a funny situation and write the dialogue between you and the robot, and present it before the class?

Answer: My best companion is my robot who helps me in all my personal day to day activities. It acts promptly according to my commands. Suddenly, it began to behave in a different way. It was not following my commands. It caused me great trouble. This is how it happened. Robot : Good morning, master. Master : Good morning, Robot. Robot : Heres your bed coffee, sir. Master : Thank you, Robot. I really need it now. (Begins to drink, immediately throws it away) What is this? Its too hot to drink. Robot : I feel it is quite normal. Ill bring you brush and paste. Master : OK. Robot : (He puts in mouth and spits out). Is it paste? It is looking like shaving foam. Robot : It is white in colour. So, I brought it. Master : Robot, keep hot water ready in the bathroom. Ill take bath. Robot : It is ready, master. Master : (Enters the bathroom. Cries loudly). Oh! God. Robot : (rushed to the spot) What happened, master? Master : The water is damn hot. I cant bathe with it. Robot : (Stands and stares at the master.) Master : Robot, get me breakfast. Im hungry. Robot : (Brings breakfast and hits against masters face. He presses into his mouth.) Master : Ummmm. (Tries to get away from the grip of Robot. But Robot is very strong. At last, he manages to free himself and ran away.)

Oral Activity

Discuss in groups and write a script for a funny situation between you and robot and role play it based on those actions and dialogues?

Answer: You : Good morning, robot. Robot : Good morning, master. You : Bring vegetables from the market. Robot : OK, master. (After an hour, robot brought cartloads of vegetables) You : What! Why have you brought such a huge loads of vegetables ? Robot : You commanded and I did, master. You : You fool! Its all my fault to tell you to bring the vegetables. O.K., Now, I want to give you another important work. Do it carefully. Robot : O.K., master. You : We have to go to the airport. Drive the car. Robot : O.K., master. You : Why are you driving so slowly ? Drive fast. (The robot is driving the care very fast with maximum speed) You : What are you doing ? Why are you driving so fast ? Slow it down immediately. Robot : O.K., master. Yon have told me to go fast. Thats why I have raised the speed. You : Stop the car immediately. I wont ask you to do the things anymore. I will drive myself. Robot : O.K., boss

Project Work

Here are four different mobiles and their features. If you want to buy a mobile, which one would you like to buy? Why? Write a paragraph and present it in the class?

Answer: Sokia Having considered the features of all the mobiles I have decided to buy Sokia. As far as my knowledge goes, Sokia is the best choice for me. It has a large screen of 7.1 inches which no other mobile has. It is useful for me to read the text easily. It has good battery backup which can help me in long journeys. Apart from these, it has the facility of blue tooth that is essential nowadays to download anything. Added to this, it provides music player which is a good entertainer. Finally, it has VGA camera which is an added advantage

Self Assessment

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Details of Characters

Gary Lopez : Television game host Joan Robinson : One of the players, a school boy MT2 : The Computer. It is another player First Noisemaker : An electronic device used for making BLEEP sound by the Computer when it wants to aanswer the question. Second Noisemaker : An electronic device used for makin BUZZ sound used by Joan Robinson when he wants to answer the question. A boy and a girl : Audience (there are more than two)

The Computer Game (One act play) Summary in English

The Computer Game is a short comedy playlet which was written by Steven Otfinoski. He tries to bring out the weaknesses of the computers in a sarcastic manner. Computers are just machines which are programmed by the human beings. They will act in a way they are programmed. The author in this short playlet highlighted how computers can become ineffective if they are not properly commanded

The computer game was a television show in which there was a game of quiz played between Joan Robinson and MT2, the computer. Gary Lopez was the host of the game. Gary said that no one had beaten MT2 so far. He explained the rules of the game before the start of the game. He said that he would ask a question. Then the player who sounded the noise maker first and gave the correct answer would score one point. Then the first player who got three points would win the game

When Gary asked how much it was 62,415 times 78,921. The computer answered correctly. It said that it was 4,925,854,215. Gary asked the second question. He asked what date in history the pilgrims had landed at Plymouth Rock. Joan tried to give the answer which went wrong. But the computer gave the correct answer that it was on December 21 of the year 1620

The computer had scored 2 points and the computer was about to win the game. When Gary was prepared to ask the third question, Joan decided to play a trick. He requested the audience to ask the question instead of Gary. A girl came forward to do it. Then Joan whispered to the girl to put the question in the form of a command. Because he understood that the computer was programmed for questions in question form. It could not answer the commands

When the girl asked to spell Chrysanthemum, the computer failed to answer it. However, Joan was able to do it easily. Immediately, the computer broke down. As a result, Joan had won the game