CLASS: 8
SUBJECT: ENGLISH
SESSION: 2022-23
TERM:1
READING :
Unseen Comprehension
WRITING :
1. Notice Writing
2. Message Writing
3. Application – Asking for medical leave for 3 days
4. Letter Writing ( Informal)
a) Letter to your Grandfather thanking him for the camera he has sent to you as a birthday present.
b) Letter to your friend explaining why you could not attend his/her birthday celebrations.
5. Paragraph / Essay:
a) Importance of Sports
b) Discipline
c) News Papers
GRAMMAR:
1. Determiners
2. Verbs: Non-Finites
3. Modals
a) Tenses
b)Active and Passive Voice
c) Jumbled words to form meaningful sentences
LITERATURE:
Chapter:
1. The Best Christmas Present in the World
2. The Tsunami
3. Glimpses of the Past
4. Bepin Choudhury`s Lapse of Memory
5. The Summit Within
Poem:
1. The Ant and the Cricket
2. Geography Lesson
3. Macavity : The Mystery Cat
4. The Last Bargain
TERM: II
READING:
Unseen Comprehension
WRITING:
1. Notice Writing
2. Message Writing
3. Application – Change of Section
4. Letter Writing (Informal):
a) Write a letter to your younger brother guiding him about not to neglect his studies
b) Letter to your friend telling him about how you spent your summer vacation
5. Paragraph/Essay:
a) Watching Television
b) Say No to Junk Food
c) Save Wildlife
d) A Visit to a Zoo
GRAMMAR:
1. Tenses
2. Prepositions
3. Direct and Indirect Speech
4. Articles
5. Connectors
6. Jumbled Words to meaningful sentences
LITERATURE:
Chapter:
1. This is Jody`s Fawn
2. A Visit to Cambridge
3. A Short Monsoon Diary
4. The Great Stone Face – I
5. The Great stone Face – II
Poem:
1. The School Boy
2. The Duck and the Kangaroo
3. When I Set Out for Lyonnesse
4. On the Grasshopper and Cricket
