NCERT Solutions for Class 7th English Chapter 3 Dreams And Discoveries
Updated on 2026-09-19
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
- Paper Boats (poem by Rabindranath Tagore)
- Paper Boats
- North, South, East, West (postcards by C.G. Salamander)
- North, South, East, West
Quick revision
| Word | From which piece | What it means | Used in a sentence |
|---|---|---|---|
| racket | My Brother's Great Invention | A loud and disturbing noise | Ma rushed in to see what the racket was all about. |
| rigged up | My Brother's Great Invention | Assembled something temporarily | Anand rigged up an alarm with wires, a bell and a water bag. |
| tinkering | My Brother's Great Invention | Experimenting or fiddling with something | He spends his holidays tinkering with old radios. |
| sceptical | My Brother's Great Invention | Doubtful | I was sceptical about the alarm's guessing powers. |
| stealthily | My Brother's Great Invention | Quietly, so that one is not seen or heard | The cat moved stealthily towards the sparrow. |
| brandishing | My Brother's Great Invention | Waving something about | Boppa backed out, brandishing his cudgel. |
| crestfallen | My Brother's Great Invention | Sad and disappointed | Anand looked crestfallen when Papa said NO. |
| lading | Paper Boats | The cargo, the load a boat carries | The lading of the fairy boats is baskets full of dreams. |
| bulging | Paper Boats | Swelling outwards | The little clouds looked like white bulging sails. |
| shiuli | Paper Boats | The night-flowering jasmine (harsingar), a small white flower with an orange stalk | He loaded his paper boats with shiuli flowers from the garden. |
| wetlands | North, South, East, West | Land such as a marsh or swamp that is covered with shallow water | The Sundarbans is one of India's great wetlands. |
| mangroves | North, South, East, West | Trees that can grow in salty coastal water | Mangroves hold the soil of the delta together. |
| plateau | North, South, East, West | A large area of high, flat land | The Deccan plateau covers much of peninsular India. |
| rafting | North, South, East, West | Travelling down a river in an air-filled rubber boat | We went rafting on the Narmada and got completely wet. |
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
- 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
- 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
- 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