NCERT Solutions Poorvi Chapter 3 (transcript on page 136)My Brother's Great Invention — Let us listen

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Q1.

I You will listen to a conversation between Anita and Toby. Toby is a Martian and is stranded on Earth. He has become Anita's friend. As you listen, choose the true statements from 1–5 given below. 1. Toby misses his school. 2. Anita accepts Toby as her friend. 3. Anita asks Toby about one of his facial features. 4. Toby tells Anita that she had a banana for breakfast. 5. Toby shares that he can see much clearer with a closed eye.

Answer

The true statements are 2, 3 and 5.

No.	Statement	True / False	Line from the transcript
1	Toby misses his school.	False	"I miss my people and home." School is never mentioned.
2	Anita accepts Toby as her friend.	True	"But I am happy to have you as my friend."
3	Anita asks Toby about one of his facial features.	True	"How are you able to see with only one eye? I see only one big eye in the centre of your face."
4	Toby tells Anita that she had a banana for breakfast.	False	"That apple you just had for breakfast is going round-and-round in your stomach."
5	Toby shares that he can see much clearer with a closed eye.	True	"In fact, I can see even with my eye closed."

Tip: In a true/false listening task, the false options are usually made by swapping one small word — school for home, banana for apple. Listen for the noun, not for the shape of the sentence.

Q2.

II Listen to the conversation again and fill in the blanks with the exact words you hear. 1. Toby: I miss my _________________ and home.

Answer

Toby: I miss my people and home.

Why it happens: Toby is stranded far from Mars, so what he misses is not a building or a thing but the beings he belongs to. 'People' is also a gentle joke — he uses the human word for his own Martian kind.

Q3.

II 2. Toby: Well, we _________________ don't need to eat anything. We get our _________________ from the Sun.

Answer

Toby: Well, we Martians don't need to eat anything. We get our energy from the Sun.

Did you know? Toby is describing something like photosynthesis. Green plants on Earth do exactly this — they take energy straight from sunlight instead of eating.

Q4.

II 3. Anita: Oh! Don't you ever feel like having ice creams and _________________?

Answer

Anita: Oh! Don't you ever feel like having ice creams and chocolates?

Why it happens: Anita measures Toby's life against her own. Her very first thought about a creature who never eats is that he must be missing sweets — 'I can't think of life without them!'

Q5.

II 4. Anita: Okay, tell me one thing. How are you able to see with only _________________ eye?

Answer

Anita: Okay, tell me one thing. How are you able to see with only one eye?

Why it happens: She adds the explanation in the next line — 'I see only one big eye in the centre of your face.' Toby answers that Martians need only one eye to see clearly.

Q6.

II 5. Toby: I can see beyond mountains and _________________, woods and even _________________.

Answer

Toby: I can see beyond mountains and clouds, woods and even metals.

Why it happens: Toby is boasting that nothing blocks his sight — not distance (mountains), not height (clouds), not thickness (woods), not solidity (metals). He proves it at once by naming the blue toy aeroplane in Anita's pocket and the apple in her stomach, which makes her gasp in disbelief.

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