NCERT Solutions for Poorvi Chapter 3 Dreams And Discoveries
Updated on 2026-09-05
About this chapter
The unit carries three pieces. My Brother's Great Invention is a funny first-person story told by fourteen-year-old Anita about her younger brother Anand , who thinks he is a scientist — his burglar alarm soaks Papa, and his home-made time machine may (or may not) have swallowed a thief called Boppa . Paper Boats is Rabindranath Tagore's short lyric in which a child floats paper boats down a running stream, writes his name on them, loads them with shiuli flowers, and dreams at night that the fairies of sleep sail in them with baskets full of dreams. North, South, East, West is a set of postcards written by Shaana of Rameswaram island as she travels the whole country with her Amma and Appa — Kashmir, Himachal, Arunachal, the Sundarbans, Gujarat, the Narmada, Goa, Chennai, Puducherry and hom
- My Brother's Great Invention (story by Anita Rau Badami)
- My Brother's Great Invention
- (Onomatopoeia)My Brother's Great Invention
- (Binomials and Phrasal Verbs)My Brother's Great Invention
- (Idioms)My Brother's Great Invention
- (Simple Past and Past Perfect)My Brother's Great Invention
- (transcript on page 136)My Brother's Great Invention
- Paper Boats (poem by Rabindranath Tagore)
- Paper Boats
- (transcript on page 137)Paper Boats
Exercises
- My Brother's Great Invention (story by Anita Rau Badami) — Let us do these activities before we read Page 91
- My Brother's Great Invention — Let us discuss Page 94 & 95
- My Brother's Great Invention — Let us discuss Page 98
- My Brother's Great Invention — Let us think and reflect Page 99 to 101
- (Onomatopoeia)My Brother's Great Invention — Let us learn Page 101
- (Binomials and Phrasal Verbs)My Brother's Great Invention — Let us learn Page 102 & 103
- (Idioms)My Brother's Great Invention — Let us learn Page 103
- (Simple Past and Past Perfect)My Brother's Great Invention — Let us learn Page 103 & 104
- (transcript on page 136)My Brother's Great Invention — Let us listen Page 105
- My Brother's Great Invention — Let us speak Page 105 & 106
- My Brother's Great Invention — Let us write Page 106 & 107
- My Brother's Great Invention — Let us explore Page 107 & 108
- Paper Boats (poem by Rabindranath Tagore) — Let us do these activities before we read Page 109
- Paper Boats — Let us discuss Page 111 & 112
- Paper Boats — Let us think and reflect Page 112 & 113
- Paper Boats — Let us learn Page 113 & 114
- (transcript on page 137)Paper Boats — Let us listen Page 114 & 115
- Paper Boats — Let us speak Page 115
- Paper Boats — Let us write Page 116
- Paper Boats — Let us explore Page 116 & 117
- North, South, East, West (postcards by C.G. Salamander) — Let us do these activities before we read Page 118
- North, South, East, West — Let us discuss Page 125
- North, South, East, West — Let us think and reflect Page 126 & 127
- (Words, situations and a word grid)North, South, East, West — Let us learn Page 128 & 129
- (Subject–Verb Agreement)North, South, East, West — Let us learn Page 130 & 131
- (transcript on page 138)North, South, East, West — Let us listen Page 131 & 132
- North, South, East, West — Let us speak Page 132 & 133
- North, South, East, West — Let us write Page 133
- North, South, East, West — Let us explore Page 134 & 135