Class 7 English Unit 3, Dreams and Discoveries, celebrates scientific curiosity, invention and problem-solving through Subhadra Sen Gupta’s humorous story My Brother’s Great Invention, the poem Paper Boats by Rabindranath Tagore, and North, South, East, West.
What Class 7 English Unit 3 Covers
Prose: My Brother’s Great Invention (by Subhadra Sen Gupta) narrated by fourteen-year-old Anita, follows her thirteen-year-old brother Anand—whose homemade water-bag burglar alarm soaks their father, and whose ‘time machine’ accidentally traps a real burglar named Biju when their parents are away.
Poem: Paper Boats (by Rabindranath Tagore) captures a child’s wonder as they float paper boats inscribed with their name and village down a running stream, laden with shiuli flowers, dreaming they will reach a distant land.
Prose: North, South, East, West traces journeys across India’s diverse landscapes—from Arunachal Pradesh and the Himalayas to the coasts and deserts—highlighting observation, discovery and subject-verb agreement.
Exercises in Unit 3
- Let us discuss and Let us think and reflect comprehension and extract-based questions.
- Let us learn (vocabulary & grammar), Let us listen, Let us speak, Let us write and Let us explore.
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FAQ
How does Anand’s ‘time machine’ end up catching a burglar in ‘My Brother’s Great Invention’?
While Anita and Anand’s parents are out, a thief named Biju breaks in and insists on entering Anand’s elaborate room-sized ‘time machine’; Anand switches on the noisy fan and lights while locking the door and alerting the neighbours and police.
Who wrote the poem ‘Paper Boats’ in Class 7 English Poorvi Unit 3?
Rabindranath Tagore wrote ‘Paper Boats’, depicting a child floating paper boats filled with dawn shiuli flowers down a stream.