HBSE Class 8 Syllabus 2025 English

Haryana Board
Syllabus
2024-25

Syllabus
English
Class 8
Grammar and
Composition Reading Adventure Stories and Science Fiction, Fairy Tales, Non-Fiction Articles, Narratives,
Travelogues, Biographies. Expression and Justification of His, Her Views, Opinions Both
Orally and In Writing About Complex, Abstract Topics. Writing Emails, Messages, Notices,
Formal Letters, Personal Diary, Report, Short Personal, Biographical Experiences. Use of
Dictionary, Thesaurus, and Encyclopaedia. Use of Nouns and Verbs, ‘If’ Clause, Correct
Form of Verbs, Contractions, Tenses, Determiners and Conjunctions. Use Adverbs, Degree of
Adjectives, Adjectives, Use Modal Auxiliaries, Direct, Indirect Statements, Questions,
Commands, Requests, Active and Passive Voice, Identification of Subject and Predicate and
Change Sentences from Assertive to Negative, Interrogative and Exclamatory Sentences
Honeydew 1.The Best Christmas Present in the World
(Prose) 2.The Tsunami
3. Bepin Choudury’s lapse of Memory
4. The Summit Within
5. This is Jody’s Fawn
6. A Short Monsoon Diary
7. An Equalizing Exercise

Honeycomb 1.The Ant and the Cricket
(Poetry) 2.Geography Lesson
3. The Last Bargain
4. The School Boy
5. On the Grasshopper and Cricket

It so happened 1.How the Camel got his hump
(Supplementary 2. Glimpses of the Past
Reader) 3.Children at work
4. The Selfish Giant

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5. The treasure within
6. Princes September
7. The fight
8. Jalebis
9. Ancient Education System of India
10. Moonga and Motha

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Class-8
Subject- English Name of the Book-Honey Dew, It So Happened

Month Content Competency Competency
Code
April 2024 The Best Christmas Present in ENG 805, ENG 807 ENG801 Students can engage in conversations in
the World ENG 813, ENG 814 English with people from different professions
such as bank staff, railway staff, etc. using
The Ant and the Cricket (Poem) ENG802, ENG803 appropriate Vocabulary

Grammar & ENG813, ENG807 ENG802 Students can read a variety of grade 8
Composition appropriate texts for pleasure e.g., adventure
stories and science fiction, fairy tales, non-fiction
May 2024 The Tsunami ENG808, ENG815 articles,
ENG812 narratives, travelogues, biographies, etc.

Geography Lesson ENG802, ENG813
(Poem) ENG803 Students can think critically to identify,
compare, and contrasts details, characters, main
How the Camel go this ENG803 ideas and sequence of ideas in a story and relate
hump them
to their life
ENG814, ENG807
Grammar & Composition ENG815
ENG804 Students can respond to a variety of
June 2024 Summer Vacation from 1st June 2024 to 30th June, 2024
questions on familiar and unfamiliar grade 8
July 2024 Glimpses of the Past ENG803, ENG815 appropriate texts verbally and in writing
ENG809
Children at Work ENG808, ENG803

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Grammar & ENG809, ENG810 ENG805 Students can read, ask, and respond to
Composition ENG815 questions based on a variety of grade 8
st
1 Student Assessment Test in the last week of July appropriate texts, justifying answers with
August 2024 Bipin Choudhary’s Lapse of ENG801, ENG802 reason/textual
Memory ENG811, ENG815 Evidence
The Last Bargain (Poem) ENG802, ENG811
The Selfish Giant ENG804, ENG806
ENG806 Students can express and justify his/her
Grammar & ENG807, ENG810 views/opinions both orally and in writing about
Composition ENG 813 complex/abstract topics like accepting differences,
bullying, etc.
September The Summit Within ENG802, ENG813
2024 ENG807, ENG814 ENG807 Students can write emails, messages,
The School Boy ENG802, ENG803 notices, formal letters, personal diary, report,
(Poem) short personal/ biographical experiences, etc.
Grammar & Composition ENG806, ENG808
ENG813, ENG815 ENG808 Students can write
Half yearly exam in the Last week of September descriptions/narratives showing sensitivity to
gender, environment, and appreciation of cultural
October 2024 This is Jody’s Fawn ENG806, ENG808 diversity
ENG813, ENG815
The Treasure Within ENG804, ENG806 ENG809 Students can write dialogues for/from a
Princess September ENG802, ENG803 story. e.g., writing dialogues for the characters or
making a narrative from given dialogues
Grammar & ENG 813, ENG815
Composition ENG816
ENG810 Students can write a coherent and
November A visit to Cambridge ENG802, ENG808
meaningful paragraph through the process of
2024 The Flight ENG812
drafting, revising, editing and finalizing
ENG813, ENG815
ENG802, ENG808
ENG811 Students can derive word meanings from
Grammar & Composition ENG807, ENG811
clues in context while reading a variety of grade 8
ENG814

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December A Short Monsoon Diary ENG805, ENG808 appropriate texts
2024 ENG813, ENG814
Jalebis ENG802, ENG803 ENG812 Students can refer to a dictionary,
Grammer & Composition ENG808, ENG812 thesaurus, and encyclopedia to find meanings and
ENG815 spelling of words while reading and writing

2nd Student Assessment Test in the last week of December ENG813 Students can identify and use same word
Winter Vacation from 1st January to 15th January 2025 as nouns and verbs, ‘if’ clause, correct form of
January 2025 On the Grasshopper and ENG802, ENG803 verbs, contractions, tenses, determiners and
Cricket (Poem) ENG812 conjunctions
Grammar & ENG801, ENG816
Composition ENG814 Students can identify and use adverbs,
degree of adjectives, words such as ‘can/ cannot’,
February 2025 Ancient education system ENG805
ENG808 ‘could/ could not’, articles, frame questions and
of India
form adjectives from nouns and verbs
Grammar & ENG806
Composition ENG811
ENG815 Students can use modal auxiliaries,
ENG812
direct/ indirect statements/ questions/
ENG814
commands/ requests, active and passive voice
Revision
March 2025 Revision
ENG816 Students can identify subject and
predicate and change sentences from assertive to
negative, interrogative and exclamatory sentences
rd th
Annual Assessment in the 3 & 4 Week of March

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