Homework of English for Class VIII April 25 to May 21,2020 Purpose: • To enhance the students’ capacity of self expression, it is advised that during the vacations the students should be encouraged to read extensively. • Parents at home must allow their children to articulate their view points in Standard English and practice verbal communication. • Such steps would prove beneficial in building a stronger language base and prepare them for the next level. • When homework provide learning experiences and academic structure for children over holidays, children have the advantage of maintaining basic skills and are more likely to return to school ready to learn. Parental involvement is very important in the academic success of children. Guidelines: Homework has been designed so that student may be able to study and learn topics reminding previous concepts about different topics under the supervision of their parents at home. The basic purpose of this homework is to engage learners for upcoming academic activities near future. It consists of 5 week plan including the activities like: • Adjective formation from nouns using suffixes • Antonyms of adjectives with the help of Thesaurus • Sentence making • Grammar • Reading • Creative Writing It includes Reading material, Internet links, Exercises form both books as well as worksheets. This homework should be done on note books.
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Homework of English for Class VIII
April 25 to May 21,2020
Purpose:
• To enhance the students’ capacity of self expression, it is advised that during the vacations the students should be
encouraged to read extensively.
• Parents at home must allow their children to articulate their view points in Standard English and practice verbal
communication.
• Such steps would prove beneficial in building a stronger language base and prepare them for the next level.
• When homework provide learning experiences and academic structure for children over holidays, children have
the advantage of maintaining basic skills and are more likely to return to school ready to learn. Parental
involvement is very important in the academic success of children.
Guidelines:
Homework has been designed so that student may be able to study and learn topics reminding previous concepts about
different topics under the supervision of their parents at home. The basic purpose of this homework is to engage learners
for upcoming academic activities near future.
It consists of 5 week plan including the activities like:
• Adjective formation from nouns using suffixes
• Antonyms of adjectives with the help of Thesaurus
• Sentence making
• Grammar
• Reading
• Creative Writing
It includes Reading material, Internet links, Exercises form both books as well as worksheets.
This homework should be done on note books.
Homework of English for Class VIII April 25 to May 21,2020
3rd Week: April 2o to 25, 2020
Section 1: Oxford Modern English 8
The silver Lining Page 21 to 25
Comprehension:
Q1. Read the story and answer these questions.
i. Who did recommend the place to the speaker?
ii. What were the facilities and conveniences available at the guest-house in which the narrator had stayed?
iii. What do you know about the physical appearance of the lady?
iv. How did the author try to make friend with Maheen?
v. Who was Mr. David? And how could he help Maheen?
vi. What was the narrator’s immediate reaction on learning that the little girl was dumb and deaf?
vii. How does the narrator describe the host and the hostess of the guest-house?
Q2. Find antonyms of the given Adjectives with the help of Thesaurus.
Unit 7: Modal Verbs Modal verbs are a very important of the English language. Modal verb are used with other verbs to express various things like ability, obligation and possibility. English modal verbs include must, shall, will, should, would, can, could, may, and might, etc.
➢ Read text and examples about Modal Verbs given in Oxford Grammar Tree and complete Exercise A to C on Oxford Grammar Tree.
Homework of English for Class VIII April 25 to May 21,2020
Q1. Make other tables for the verbs order and buy with using the third person singular he instead of I.
Q3. Do Exercise 3 about Simple Past or the Past Perfect Tense on page 29 of Oxford Modern English with
the help of given links. https://www.grammarly.com/blog/past-perfect/ https://www.gingersoftware.com/content/grammar-rules/verbs/the-past-perfect-simple-tense/
Homework of English for Class VIII April 25 to May 21,2020
Homework of English for Class VIII April 25 to May 21, 2020
"The Solitary Reaper" opens with the speaker directing our attention to a solitary reaper. She's singing in a field somewhere. She's a highland girl, and she's singing while she works. It's kind of a sad song, but it's definitely more thrilling than a cuckoo's song in the Hebrides and different than anything you might hear from a nightingale. The speaker loves the song, but he can't understand any of it. He wonders if she's singing about old battles and other sad stuff from forever ago, or if she's singing about something more humble. Either way, he notes that she's singing as if her song will never end. He watches, enraptured, not moving at all. At the end he quietly walks away, keeping the woman's music in his heart for a long time after.
Q1. Choose the correct answers.
i. The quality of the reaper's song has been compared to a. Cuckoo and Nightingale b. Crow and Sparrow c. Pigeon and Dove d. Peacock and Parrot ii. What was the reaper doing when the speaker first saw her? a. She was welcoming the travellers. b. She was reaping and singing by herself. c. She was returning home from work. d. She was fighting a battle. iii. Why does the speaker need to guess what the song is about? a. She sang very fast. b. Her voice was not audible. c. The language was unknown to the poet. d. She was multilingual. iv. The word plaintive means _______________. a. ordinary b. happy c. mournful d. joyful v. The poet thinks that the song is about__________________________. a. a historical event or a tragedy in the past b. a happy event c. nightingale and cuckoo bird d. a traveller
Q2. Find Antonyms of the given Adjectives with the help of Thesaurus.
https://www.thesaurus.com/
Adjectives Antonyms Adjectives Antonyms
weary motionless
single plaintive
natural humble
Q3. Make adjectives from nouns keeping in mind the use of suffixes.
2. We knew that she had got the job when we saw her _________ talking on the phone.
3. He ______________ put the vase on the table. It fell to the floor.
4. Sharon is throwing a party on Saturday. She ___________ finished her PhD.
5. Let's walk ________________. I don't want to be the first one at the meeting.
6. Alex _____________ put up the bookshelves. It was too difficult for me to do on my own.
7. Everything happened so ______________. We had to move to California in less than a month.
8. Why does he always have to talk so ____________. You can hear him in the next room!
9. Although she speaks five languages, she did not do ___________ on the translation exam.
10. I was so surprised. His new apartment was _____________ decorated.
Homework of English for Class VIII April 25 to May 21,2020
6th Week: May 11 to 16, 2020
Section 1: Oxford Modern English 8
The solitary Reaper page 32 to 35
A. Comprehension 1. Answer the Questions asked in the comprehension exercise 1 and 2. Page 32
B. Working With Words 1. Do question 1 with the help of dictionary.
https://www.dictionary.com/
2. Use the following in sentences of your own.
More welcome Melancholy is overflowing with breaking the silence familiar matter profound plaintive Among the farthest
3. Choose the correct prefix, mis- and dis-, and complete the following words on book. Page 34
C. Learning About Language Q1. Read the text and examples on page 34 and solve exercise on book Oxford Modern English. You may use these links for better understanding. https://www.grammar-monster.com/easily_confused/between_among.htm https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/between-or-among https://youtu.be/oCaac9Uwb5U
2. Study the difference between You and Me and correct sentences in exercise 2. https://www.lexico.com/grammar/between-you-and-me
Homework of English for Class VIII April 25 to May 21,2020
Section 2: Oxford Grammar Tree 8 Unit 11: Determiners
A determiner is a word placed in front of a noun to specify quantity (e.g., "one dog," "many dogs") or to clarify what the noun refers to (e.g., "my dog," "that dog," "the dog"). All determiners can be classified as one of the following: • An Article (a/an, the) • A Demonstrative (this, that, these, those) • A Possessive (my, your, his, her, its, our, their) • A Quantifier (common examples include many, much, more, most, some)
Q1. Solve Exercises A,B,C,D,F of Determiners in Oxford Grammar Tree. You may take help from the given link.
Homework of English for Class VIII April 25 to May 21, 2020
Section 3
Creative Writing: Write a dialogue between two friends about the importance of cleanliness in school.
Situation: Student A calls Student B on phone and both discuss that what must be the importance of cleanliness in school after the devastating effects Corona Virus.
A: Hi my dear friend, how are you?
B: Yes, I am physically sound now.
A: In order to have a sound health, you must follow the rules of health and cleanliness.
B: I don’t understand why you should follow the rules of cleanliness for our sound health.
A: It can be contagious like the virus that is affecting people of the whole world and I think we must be more careful when
Homework of English for Class VIII April 25 to May 21,2020
7rd Week: May 18 to 21, 2020
Section 1: Oxford Modern English 8
Dreaming of the Dawn Wall page 64 to 67
Q1. Choose the correct answers after reading text carefully.
i. California stretches down the west coast of America. The underlined words means________. a. to extend b. to contract c. to attarct ii. A large area in Sierra ___________ is Yosemite National Park. a. Texas b. Nevada c. Miami iii. Tommy was born in America in _________. a. 1976 b. 1977 c. 1978 iv. When Tommy was _________, they went to Europe and climbed Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn. a. fourteen b. fifteen c. sixteen v. Tommy had an accident and chopped off the top of his index finger. The underlined word means: a. Cuts off b. injured c. damaged
Q2. Find antonyms of the following adjectives with the help of Thesaurus.
