HBSE Class 8 Syllabus 2023 English

Academic Session 2022-23

Class-8
Subject- English

Month Content Competency Code Competency
April The Best Christmas Present ENG 805 ENG801 Students can engage in conversations in English
2022 in the World ENG 807 with people from different professions such as bank staff,
ENG 813 railway staff, etc. using appropriate Vocabulary
ENG 814
How the Camel got his ENG 803
hump ENG802 Students can read a variety of grade 8
appropriate texts for pleasure e.g., adventure stories and
Grammar & ENG813 science fiction, fairy tales, non-fiction articles,
Composition ENG807 narratives, travelogues, biographies, etc.

May 2022 The Ant and the ENG802
Cricket (Poem) ENG803 ENG803 Students can think critically to identify,
compare, and contrasts details, characters, main ideas
The Tsunami ENG808 and sequence of ideas in a story and relate them
ENG815 to their life
ENG812
Geography Lesson ENG802
(Poem) ENG813 ENG804 Students can respond to a variety of questions
on familiar and unfamiliar grade 8 appropriate texts
Children at work ENG808 verbally and in writing

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The Selfish Giant ENG806 ENG805 Students can read, ask, and respond to
ENG804 questions based on a variety of grade 8 appropriate texts,
justifying answers with reason/textual
Grammar & ENG814 Evidence
Composition ENG810

June Summer Vacations from 1st June 2022 to 30th June, ENG806 Students can express and justify his/her
2022 2022 views/opinions both orally and in writing about
July 2022 Glimpses of the Past ENG803 complex/abstract topics like accepting differences,
ENG815 bullying, etc.
ENG809
Macavity! The Mystery ENG802
Cat (Poem) ENG804 ENG807 Students can write emails, messages, notices,
The treasure within ENG806 formal letters, personal diary, report, short personal/
ENG804 biographical experiences, etc.
ENG806
Grammar & ENG813
Composition ENG815 ENG808 Students can write descriptions/narratives
ENG810 showing sensitivity to gender, environment, and
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1 Student Assessment Test in the last week of July appreciation of cultural diversity
August Bipin Choudhary’s Lapse ENG802
2022 of Memory ENG811
ENG809 Students can write dialogues for/from a story.
ENG815 e.g., writing dialogues for the characters or making a
The Last Bargain ENG802 narrative from given dialogues
(Poem) ENG811
Princess September ENG802
ENG803 ENG810 Students can write a coherent and meaningful
Grammar & ENG813 paragraph through the process of drafting, revising,
Composition ENG813 editing and finalizing
ENG 813

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ENG810 ENG811 Students can derive word meanings from clues
ENG807 in context while reading a variety of grade 8 appropriate
Septemb The Summit Within ENG802 texts
er 2022 ENG813
ENG807
ENG814 ENG812 Students can refer to a dictionary, thesaurus,
The School Boy ENG802 and encyclopedia to find meanings and spelling of words
(Poem) ENG803 while reading and writing
The fight ENG808
ENG802
October This is Jody’s Fawn ENG808 ENG813 Students can identify and use same word as
2022 ENG806 nouns and verbs, ‘if’ clause, correct form of verbs,
ENG815 contractions, tenses, determiners and conjunctions
ENG813
A Visit to Cambridge ENG808
ENG802 ENG814 Students can identify and use adverbs, degree
ENG815 of adjectives, words such as ‘can/ cannot’, ‘could/ could
ENG813 not’, articles, frame questions and form adjectives from
ENG812 nouns and verbs
Jalebis ENG802
Grammar & ENG 807 ENG815 Students can use modal auxiliaries, direct/
Composition indirect statements/ questions/ commands/ requests,
nd
2 Student Assessment Test in the last week of October active and passive voice
Novembe When I set out for the ENG802
r 2022 Lyonnesse (Poem) ENG812
A Short Monsoon ENG805 ENG816 Students can identify subject and predicate and
Diary ENG808 change sentences from assertive to negative,
ENG813 interrogative and exclamatory sentences
ENG814
The Comet1 ENG806

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ENG805
Grammar & ENG812
Composition ENG807
ENG815
Decembe On the Grasshopper and ENG802
r 2022 Cricket (Poem) ENG812
Winter Braek from 1st january to 15th January
January The Great Stone ENG807
2023 FaceI ENG803
ENG813
ENG810
Grammar & ENG815
Composition ENG812
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3 Student Assessment Test in the last week of January
February The Great Stone ENG810
2023 Face–II ENG803
ENG812
ENG813
The Comet2 ENG808
ENG806
Ancient education ENG808
system of India ENG805
Grammar & ENG812
Composition ENG814
ENG814
ENG816
ENG811
ENG806
March Moonga And Motha ENG802
2023 (Folk Tale of Haryana)

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ENG805
Annual Assessment in the third week of March

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