BLOOM PUBLIC SCHOOL Vasant Kunj, New Delhi Class:-VIII Subject : English Syllabus (2018-2019) Month April May July CONTENT: (NCERT) 1. HONEY DEW( MAIN TEXT BOOK) 2. IT SO HAPPENED(SUPPLEMENTARY READER) 3.AMITY ENGLISH GRAMMAR. Unit-1: The Best Christmas Present in the World Poem-The Ant and the Cricket Chapter 1-How the Camel Got its Hump Unit-1-Sentences Unit-2-Clauses Unit-3-Averb Clauses Unit-2: The Tsumani Poem-Geography Lesson Chapter 2-Children at Work Unit-4-Defining and Non-Defining ClausesClauses Unit-5-Comprehension-I Unit-6-Think a little-i Let s Think back-i Unit-3: Glimpses of the Past Poem-Macavity: The Mystery Cat Chapter 3-The Selfish Giant Unit-7-Transformation of Sentences-1 Unit-8-Infinitives Unit-9-Gerunds Unit-10-Participles
August September October November Unit-4: Bepin Choudhury s Lapse of Memory Poem-The Last Bargain Chapter 4-The Treasure within Unit-11-Active and Passive voice Unit-12-comprehension-II Unit-13-Think a Little-II Let s Think Back-II Unit-5: The Summit Within Poem-The School Boy Unit-14-Tenses Unit-21-Comprehension-III Unit-6: Jody s Fawn Poem-The Duck and the Kangaroo Chapter 5-Princess September Unit-15-Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences Unit-16-Direct and Indirect Speech Unit-17-Restrictive and Non-Restrictive Clauses Unit-7: A Visit to Cambridge Poem-When I set out for Lyonnesse Chapter 6-The Fight Unit-18-Transformation of Sentences-2 Unit-19-Modals Unit-20-Punctuation Unit-22- Think a Little-III Let s Think Back-III
December Unit-8:A Short Monsoon diary Poem-On the Grasshopper and Cricket Chapter 7-The open window Unit-23-Prepositions Unit-24-Conjunctions January Unit-9:The Great Stone Face-1 Unit-10- The Great Stone Face-2 Chapter 8-Jalebis Unit-25-Articles Unit-26-Conditional Sentences February Chapter 9-The Comet-1 Chapter-10-The Comet-2 Unit-27-Error identification Unit-28-Comprehension-IV Unit-29-Think a Little-IV Let s think Back-IV February/March Annual Assessment Month July Content
(Periodic test-1) Unit-1: The Best Christmas Present in the World Poem-The Ant and the Cricket Chapter 1-How the Camel Got its Hump Unit-1-Sentences Unit-2-Clauses Unit-3-Averb Clauses Unit-4-Defining and Non-Defining Clauses Diary Entry September (Half-Yearly) Unit-1: The Best Christmas Present in the World Unit-2: The Tsumani Unit-3: Glimpses of the Past Unit-4: Bepin Choudhury s Lapse of Memory Unit-5: The Summit Within Poem-The Ant and the Cricket Poem-Geography Lesson Poem-Macavity: The Mystery Cat Poem-The Last Bargain Poem-The School Boy Chapter 1-How the Camel Got its Hump Chapter 2-Children at Work Chapter 3-The Selfish Giant Chapter 4-The Treasure within Unit-1-Sentences Unit-2-Clauses Unit-3-Averb Clauses Unit-4-Defining and Non-Defining Clauses Unit-7-Transformation of Sentences-1 Unit-8-Infinitives Unit-9-Gerunds Unit-10-Participles Unit-11-Active and Passive voice Story Writing Diary Entry
Informal Letter November (Periodic test-2) Unit-6: Jody s Fawn Poem-The Duck and the Kangaroo Chapter 5-Princess September Unit-14-Tenses Unit-15-Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences Unit-16-Direct and Indirect Speech Unit-17-Restrictive and Non-Restrictive Clauses Paragraph writing/story Writing February (Final Test) Unit-4: Bepin Choudhury s Lapse of Memory Unit-5: The Summit Within Unit-6: Jody s Fawn Unit-7: A Visit to Cambridge Unit-8:A Short Monsoon diary Unit-9:The Great Stone Face-1 Unit-10:The Great Stone Face-2 Poem-The Last Bargain Poem-The School Boy Poem-The Duck and the Kangaroo Poem-When I set out for Lyonnesse Poem-On the Grasshopper and Cricket Chapter 4-The Treasure within Chapter 5-Princess September Chapter 6-The Fight Chapter 7-The open window Chapter 8-Jalebis Chapter 9-The Comet-1 Chapter-10-The Comet-2 Unit-7-Transformation of Sentences-1 Unit-8-Infinitives Unit-9-Gerunds Unit-10-Participles Unit-11-Active and Passive voice
Unit-14-Tenses Unit-15-Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences Unit-16-Direct and Indirect Speech Unit-18-Transformation of Sentences-2 Unit-19-Modals Unit-20-Punctuation Unit-23-Prepositions Unit-24-Conjunctions Unit-25-Articles Unit-26-Conditional Sentences Unit-27-Error identification Story Writing Diary entry Informal letter/formal writing Notice writing Paragraph writing