Classes
Class 8 English

Subject: Middle School

🧩 23 Practice Tests & Quizzes 📘 29 Study Guides

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Introduction

Class 8 English (CBSE) is divided into two parts:

1. English Literature, and
2. English Grammar & Composition

CBSE Syllabus For Class 8 English
(Honeydew : Textbook in English for Class VIII)

This book has ten chapters:

Chapter 1: The Best Christmas Present in the World
Poem: The Ant and the Cricket
Chapter 2: The Tsunami
Poem: Geography Lesson
Chapter 3: Glimpses of the Past
Poem: Macavity: The Mystery Cat
Chapter 4: Bepin Choudhury’s Lapse of Memory
Poem: The Last Bargain
Chapter 5: The Summit Within
Poem: The School Boy
Chapter 6: This is Jody’s Fawn
Poem: The Duck and the Kangaroo
Chapter 7: A Visit to Cambridge
Poem: When I set out for Lyonnesse
Chapter 8: A Short Monsoon Diary
Poem: On the Grasshopper and Cricket
Chapter 9: The Great Stone Face- I
Chapter 10: The Great Stone Face- II

CBSE Syllabus For Class 8 English
(It So Happened: Supplementary Reader in English for Class VIII)

This book too comes with 10 chapters:

Chapter 1: How the Camel got his Hump
Chapter 2: Children at work
Chapter 3: The Selfish Giant
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- I
Chapter 10: The Comet- II

CBSE Syllabus For Class 8 English Grammar & Composition
This section can be subdivided into two part: English Grammar and English Composition (Writing). 

CBSE Syllabus For Class 8 English Grammar
1. Order of Words and Clauses
2. Direct and Indirect Speech
3. Active and Passive Voice
4. Tenses
5. Noun
6. Pronoun
7. Verb
8. Adverb
9. Prepositions
10. Conjunction
11. Phrases and Idioms
12. Vocabulary
13. Comprehension Reading

CBSE Syllabus For Class 8 English Composition (Writing)

This section tests your writing skills in English. The English Composition syllabus has the following topics:

1. Notice
2. Story
3. Formal and Informal Letters
4. Diary Entry
5. Essay

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Latest Practice Tests / Quizzes

📝 Class 8 English Practice Test: Reported Speech

📝 Class 8 English Unseen Passages Type II: Passage 5

📝 Class 8 English Unseen Passages Type II: Passage 4

Latest Study Guides

📄 CBSE Grade 8 English Exam Survival Guide

📄 Class 8 English: Unseen Passages Type II

📄 Class 8 English: Unseen Passages Type I

Exam Survival Guides

🛟 CBSE Grade 8 English Exam Survival Guide