HBSE Class 8 Syllabus 2024 English

Academic Session 2023-24

Class-8
Subject- English

Month Content Competency Code Competency
April The Best Christmas Present ENG 805 ENG801 Students can engage in conversations in English
2023 in the World ENG 807 with people from different professions such as bank staff,
ENG 813 railway staff, etc. using appropriate Vocabulary
ENG 814
The Ant and the Cricket ENG802
(Poem) ENG803 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 2023 The Tsunami ENG808
ENG815 ENG803 Students can think critically to identify,
ENG812 compare, and contrasts details, characters, main ideas
Geography Lesson ENG802 and sequence of ideas in a story and relate them
(Poem) ENG813 to their life

How the Camel go ENG803
this hump ENG804 Students can respond to a variety of questions
on familiar and unfamiliar grade 8 appropriate texts
ENG814 verbally and in writing
Grammar & Composition ENG807

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ENG805 Students can read, ask, and respond to
questions based on a variety of grade 8 appropriate texts,
justifying answers with reason/textual
Evidence

June Summer Vacations from 1st June 2023 to 30th June, ENG806 Students can express and justify his/her
2023 2023 views/opinions both orally and in writing about
complex/abstract topics like accepting differences,
July 2023 Glimpses of the Past ENG803 bullying, etc.
ENG809
Children at Work ENG808 ENG807 Students can write emails, messages, notices,
ENG803 formal letters, personal diary, report, short personal/
biographical experiences, etc.
Grammar & ENG809
Composition ENG810
ENG815 ENG808 Students can write descriptions/narratives
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1 Student Assessment Test in the last week of July showing sensitivity to gender, environment, and
appreciation of cultural diversity
August Bipin Choudhary’s Lapse ENG801
2023 of Memory ENG802
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
The Selfish Giant ENG804
ENG806 ENG810 Students can write a coherent and meaningful
paragraph through the process of drafting, revising,
Grammar & ENG807 editing and finalizing
Composition ENG810

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ENG 813 ENG811 Students can derive word meanings from clues
in context while reading a variety of grade 8 appropriate
Septemb The Summit Within ENG802 texts
er 2023 ENG813
ENG807
ENG814 ENG812 Students can refer to a dictionary, thesaurus,
The Summit ENG802 and encyclopedia to find meanings and spelling of words
Within ENG807 while reading and writing
ENG813
The School Boy ENG802 ENG813 Students can identify and use same word as
(Poem) ENG803 nouns and verbs, ‘if’ clause, correct form of verbs,
Grammer & Composition ENG806 contractions, tenses, determiners and conjunctions
ENG808
ENG813
ENG815 ENG814 Students can identify and use adverbs, degree
Half yearly exam in the Month of September of adjectives, words such as ‘can/ cannot’, ‘could/ could
not’, articles, frame questions and form adjectives from
October This is Jody’s Fawn ENG806 nouns and verbs
2023 ENG808
ENG813
ENG815 ENG815 Students can use modal auxiliaries, direct/
The Treasure Within ENG804 indirect statements/ questions/ commands/ requests,
ENG806 active and passive voice
Princess September ENG802
ENG803
Grammar & ENG 813 ENG816 Students can identify subject and predicate and
Composition ENG815 change sentences from assertive to negative,
ENG816 interrogative and exclamatory sentences
Novembe A visit to Cambridge ENG802
r 2023 ENG808

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ENG812
ENG813
The Flight ENG802
ENG808
Grammer & ENG807
Composition ENG811
nd
2 Student Assessment Test in the last week of November

Decembe A Short Monsoon Diary ENG805
r 2023 ENG808
ENG813
Jalebis ENG802
ENG803
Grammer & Composition ENG808
ENG812

Winter Break from 1st January to 15th January
January On the Grasshopper ENG802
2024 and Cricket (Poem) ENG803
ENG812
Grammar & ENG801
Composition ENG816
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3 Student Assessment Test in the last week of January
February Ancient education ENG805
2024 system of India ENG808
Grammar & ENG806

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Composition ENG811
ENG812
Revision

March Revision
2024
Annual Assessment in the 3rd & 4th Week of March

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