Who put that bag there?
It opens in the middle of a disaster.
A roar from the doorstep, a soaked father, and a sister whispering to her brother that it is his burglar alarm.
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My Brother’s Great Invention · Class 7 English · Poorvi
English 4 topics 140 leveled MCQs 68 flashcards 5 games Free
Shared by a Veda teacher · Generated with Veda AI · Oct 2026
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Anita, fourteen
The sister is telling it.
Anand is a year younger. Every judgement in the story is hers, and there is no second voice to check it.
Why an alarm at all
The idea was not silly.
There had been a run of thefts in the colony, so a burglar alarm was a reasonable thing to want.
The house is empty
One night, two children.
The parents leave by an afternoon train. Anand falls asleep at once and Anita stays up over a murder story.
Scratch, rattle, click
Three sounds before anything is seen.
Each one is nearer to being real than the last, and she talks herself out of the first.
How Boppa knew
Informed, not lucky.
He had begun sweeping the compounds along the row, so he could see which houses were empty and when.
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What you'll study, topic by topic
1
The Inventor, and the Sister Who Tells It
A thirteen-year-old builds a burglar alarm that fires when a door is opened gently, and soaks his own father. This topic follows the first half of the story, works out why the design had to fail, and looks at what the si…
- Anita tells the story herself. She is fourteen, and Anand is a year younger, so every judgement in it is hers.
- Anand believes he is a scientist. He builds things from gadgets, tools, dynamos and planks, and they go wrong.
- The alarm was designed to fire when a door was opened gently, on the theory that a thief opens a door quietly.
~33 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
2
The Night, and the Question Left Open
A thief gets into an empty house, is sent to the wrong room, and is never seen again. The story hands a reader four pieces of evidence and then refuses to settle the matter. This topic sorts the evidence and asks why the…
- The parents are away for one night. Anita is awake over a murder story and Anand is asleep.
- The sounds arrive in order: a scratching, then a rattle, then a click. Each one is nearer than the last.
- Boppa had recently begun sweeping the compounds of the row, so he knew exactly when each house was empty.
~34 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
3
Sounds, Pairs and Idioms
Some words imitate a sound. Some pairs of words travel together in one fixed order. And some phrases mean something quite different from the words in them. All three have to be met whole rather than worked out, which is…
- Onomatopoeia is the use of a word that imitates the sound of the thing it names, such as boom or tick-tock.
- The story is full of it: a clanging alarm, a crash, a low humming, a hiss, and the hammering, sawing and clattering of a fortnight.
- An onomatopoeic word carries information a plain word would lose. A crash is sudden and a humming is continuous.
~33 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
4
Two Pasts, Five Particles, and -ough
One small word, had, says which of two past actions happened first. A particle can change a verb completely. And the four letters -ough stand for five different sounds. Three places where English asks a lot of very littl…
- When two things happened in the past, the simple past tells the later one and the past perfect tells the earlier.
- The past perfect is had plus the past participle: had rushed, had vanished, had cooled.
- Papa had cooled down before Anand reappeared, so the cooling takes had and the reappearing does not.
~34 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
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140 questions laddered from warm-up to topper-level, each with an explanation. A taste:
Every judgement in the story belongs to the person telling it, who is a year older than her brother. Telling this story is
Beginner
A Mrs Sharma
B Anita
C Anand
D Papa
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Anita
She stops to introduce herself, which only a narrator inside the story can do.
The two children are close in age, and the story gives both of their ages. They are aged
Beginner
A fifteen and twelve
B fourteen and thirteen
C twelve and eleven
D sixteen and fifteen
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fourteen and thirteen
Anita is fourteen and her brother is a year younger.
Something the household saw together put the idea of a burglar alarm into Anand head. First prompting him was
Intermediate
A a film the family had watched
B a school project he had been set
C a request from his own father
D a run of thefts in the colony
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a run of thefts in the colony
Which is why the idea was sensible even though the device was not.
Consider these statements about the burglar alarm. I. It was rigged to fire when a door was opened gently. II. The theory was that a thief flings a door wide open. III. Papa always opened the door softly. Which statements are correct?
Advanced
A I and II only
B II and III only
C I and III only
D I, II and III
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I and III only
I and III are true. The second fails: the alarm was built on a thief opening a door gently.
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