Telangana Class 8 Syllabus English

Class -VIII Theme Language Competencies Genre Source / Unit Vocabulary Grammar Written Oral Reading Text Author’s Name Discourses Discourses Kamala Das Synonyms Noun Phrases A. The Tattered Blanket Story Short Essay Debate; Rabindranath Family 1 B. My Mother Poem Discription; Tagore C.A Letter to a Friend Letter --- Choreography Social Issues Compound Framing Questions to Diary; Short talk; A. Oliver Asks for More Story Charles Dickens Adjectives get yes/ no answers; 2 B. The Cry of Children Poem E.B.Browning Question Tags Profile Discussion C. Reaching the Unreached Essay --- Phrasal Verbs; Antonyms; A. The Selfish Giant I (One act play) Play Oscar Wilde Gerunds of verbs Notice Narrative; Humanity Words related to sounds; poetic Description 3 B. The Selfish Giant II (One act play) Play Oscar Wilde C. The Garden Within Poem Celia Berrell devices- simile, metaphor & personification Issac Asimov Technology Science and A. The Fun They Had Science- Antonyms; Using Adverbs and Letter; Debate 4 Fiction Order of Relative Clauses poster L A Nickerson Adjectives B. Preteen Pretext Poem C. The Computer Game (One act play) Play Steven Otfinoski English Syllabus 15

Language Competencies Theme Reading Text Genre Unit Source / Written Oral Vocabulary Grammar Author’s Name Discourses Discourses Education and A. The Treasure Within (Part I) Interview Collocations; Talking about habitual Script for Short talk; Sparsh News Letter Same word as a Career Compeering 5 -Do- verb and a noun actions in the past Compeering B. The Treasure Within (Part II) Interview The Hindu using 'used to' C. They Literally Build the Nation Essay B. Shyama Sundari Art & Culture Homonyms; Reported Speech; Profile; A. The Story of Ikat Description Harindranath Short talk Homophones Tense and Time Biographical B. The Earthen Goblet Poem Chattopadhya 6 C. Maestro with a Mission Biography --- Sketch Woman Empow- Abburi erment A. Bonsai Life (Part I) Story Chayadevi Phrasal Verbs; Subject and Predicate Poster; Report Debate 7 Similes; writing B. Bonsai Life (Part II) Story C. I Can Take Care of Myself Story idioms - Identifying A. Dr. Dwarakanath Kotnis Biography - vocabulary of Conjunctions used in News Report; Social Service Short talk; 8 B. Be Thankful Poem semantic mapping- coordinate/ sub Essay Speech - medical, space, ordinate/ compound C. The Dead Rat Story P.C.Roy travel....; Idiomatic Expressions with 'heart' 16 English Syllabus