NCERT Solutions for Poorvi Chapter 3 Dreams And Discoveries

Updated on 2026-09-05

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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
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  1. My Brother's Great Invention (story by Anita Rau Badami) — Let us do these activities before we read Page 91
  2. My Brother's Great Invention — Let us discuss Page 94 & 95
  3. My Brother's Great Invention — Let us discuss Page 98
  4. My Brother's Great Invention — Let us think and reflect Page 99 to 101
  5. (Onomatopoeia)My Brother's Great Invention — Let us learn Page 101
  6. (Binomials and Phrasal Verbs)My Brother's Great Invention — Let us learn Page 102 & 103
  7. (Idioms)My Brother's Great Invention — Let us learn Page 103
  8. (Simple Past and Past Perfect)My Brother's Great Invention — Let us learn Page 103 & 104
  9. (transcript on page 136)My Brother's Great Invention — Let us listen Page 105
  10. My Brother's Great Invention — Let us speak Page 105 & 106
  11. My Brother's Great Invention — Let us write Page 106 & 107
  12. My Brother's Great Invention — Let us explore Page 107 & 108
  13. Paper Boats (poem by Rabindranath Tagore) — Let us do these activities before we read Page 109
  14. Paper Boats — Let us discuss Page 111 & 112
  15. Paper Boats — Let us think and reflect Page 112 & 113
  16. Paper Boats — Let us learn Page 113 & 114
  17. (transcript on page 137)Paper Boats — Let us listen Page 114 & 115
  18. Paper Boats — Let us speak Page 115
  19. Paper Boats — Let us write Page 116
  20. Paper Boats — Let us explore Page 116 & 117
  21. North, South, East, West (postcards by C.G. Salamander) — Let us do these activities before we read Page 118
  22. North, South, East, West — Let us discuss Page 125
  23. North, South, East, West — Let us think and reflect Page 126 & 127
  24. (Words, situations and a word grid)North, South, East, West — Let us learn Page 128 & 129
  25. (Subject–Verb Agreement)North, South, East, West — Let us learn Page 130 & 131
  26. (transcript on page 138)North, South, East, West — Let us listen Page 131 & 132
  27. North, South, East, West — Let us speak Page 132 & 133
  28. North, South, East, West — Let us write Page 133
  29. North, South, East, West — Let us explore Page 134 & 135
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