INDIAN SCHOOL MUSCAT

MIDDLE SECTION
ANNUAL SYLLABUS 2019 – 2020
CLASS - VIII

SUBJECT : ENGLISH
TEACHING AIDS
MONTH TOPIC SUB TOPIC
DIGITAL TOOLS (DS / Other Links) OTHERS
APRIL INTRODUCTIO
N

GRAMMAR Revision Worksheet

Worksheet
(Topics
covered in
Class 7)
LITERATURE 1.The
Happy www.teachingbooks.net/media/pdf/SleepingBearPress/ In-text
Prince HappyPrince_Guide.pdf questions
(Prose) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX9xA6OyKdM

2. The Hero In-text

(Poem) questions

ELOCUTION
ACTIVITY
(2
(ORAL)
MINUTES)
WRITING 1.Speech for DS: Dept PPT Notes and
the morning Links: Worksheet
assembly www.slideshare.net/MizMainz/speechtalk-writing
(LWS-Notes
and whttps://schools.aglasem.com/1674
worksheet ) ww.englishforums.com
https://gdpi.hitbullseys.com/precise-writing .php Notes and
Worksheet
 2.Notice
Writing (sws-
Revision-
worksheet)

3.Precis
(sws)
MAY LITERATURE Fire Buckets In-text
(Prose) questions

WRITING 1.Formal DS: Dept PPT Notes

Letter-Letter www.academia.edu/3700498/GRADE_8_ENG_FORMAL_L /Worksheet
of Complaint( ETTER_WRITING
Vice
Principal)
(LWS-Notes
&Worksheet)

2.Story DS: Dept PPT

Writing http://www.extramarks.com/cbse-class-6/english-story- Notes
(LWS- writing /Worksheet
Revision
Worksheet)
GRAMMAR 1.Tenses http://108.179.198.54:85/schcontent/oct_2016/Eng_Worksh
(revision - eets/Class_4/Eng_CL4_Perfect-Tense_1.pdf
except http://108.179.198.54:85/schcontent/oct_2016/Eng_Worksh Notes
Future eets/Class_4/Eng_Cl4_Tenses-Progr_1.pdf /Worksheet
Perfect Notes
Continuous)

2.Transitive https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/grammar/transitive-and- Notes/Workshe

&Intransitive intransitive-verbshttps://www.youtube.com/ et
Verbs watch?v=33Ya6dugOnI
(Revision)
Grammar
Text( pgs-50-
52)
 JULY GRAMMAR Finite and http://108.179.198.54:85/schcontent/english/content/languag Worksheet
Non Finite e_arts/DESTINATION_Grammar/DG.html?lesson=lesson_1
verbs 8&type=gphttp://108.179.198.54:85/schcontent/english/cont
ent/language_arts/DESTINATION_GRAMMAR/DG.html?les
son=lesson_11-6_8

AUGUST WRITING Message Dept PPT Worksheet

Writing
(Revision)

LITERATURE 1.The Village In –text

School exercises
Master In –text
(Poem) exercises
2. Aachchi
(Prose)

GRAMMAR 1.Reported http://108.179.198.54:85/schcontent/english/content/languag Notes

Speech e_arts/DESTINATION_Grammar/DG.html?lesson=lesson_2 /worksheet
(Exclamatory 6/&type=gp
&Imperative-
Worksheet)
(Statements
&Interrogativ
es-Revision)
SEPTEMBE GRAMMAR 1.Dialogue .htmlhttps://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/quick- Notes
R Writing- grammar/reported-speech- /worksheet
(Reporting 1https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXB9P8miFCs
conversation
in dialogue
format)

2.Idioms and https://www.oxfordroyale.co.uk/aricles/bizarre;englsh- Notes

Proverbs idioms-meaning-origins.html /worksheet
(Introduction/ https://www.engvid.com/english-resource/50-common-
Activity proverbs-sayings/
 worksheets)

3. DS - Classes-6 &10
Coordinating https://www.english-grammar-revolution.com/list-of- Worksheet
Subordinatin conjunctions.html
g Correlative https://www.english-grammar-revolution.com/what-is-a-
Conjunctions conjunction.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAQttUMEUcg

READING Reading In-text exercise

comprehensi
on :
Grammar
book
Passage
1(pgs193-
194)

REVISION FIRST
TERM
EXAMINATI
ON

EXAM EXAM EXAM EXAM

OCTOBER LITERATURE 1.The Last https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teHasbEggM Notes, In-text

Leaf(prose) questions

WRITING E-mail DS, Dept PPT Worksheet

(Letter to https://www.englishgrammar.org/ces-simple-compound/
Vice
Principal)
 GRAMMAR 1.Phrases DS- classes-7 and 8
and https://www.youtube.com/watch?VV3ICg
Clauses(Kind sentence-structure/sentence-structure worksheets/clauses Worksheet
s of clauses) worksheets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?pPJ5bgJs
2.Kinds of DS, Dept PPT Worksheet
Sentences https://www.slideshare.net/guest2e9 simple-compound-
https://www.english-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/reported.
complex-compound-complex sentences
Reading Unseen - Worksheet
Passage
(Group
Activity)
NOVEMBER LITERATURE 1.The https://hubpages.com/literature/Luncheon Notes, In-text
Luncheon questions
(Prose)
2. Invictus https://invictusexplained.wordpress.com/ Notes, In-text
(Poem) questions

GRAMMAR 1. Active DS, Notes and

and Passive http://108.179.198.54:85/schcontent/english/content/languag worksheets
–statements e_arts/
revision. Destination_Grammar?DG.html?lesson_2-6_8icies
Interrogative
and Other links:
Imperatives https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kmS6NV8gM
(new)

Passive to
Active (notes DS, Dept PPT
and https://www.youtube.com/watch?=FHPQpgkNJbO
worksheet)

WRITING Letter to the DS, PPT Worksheet

Editor (LWS- www.academia.edu/3700498/GRADE_8_ENG_FORMAL_L
Notes and ETTER_WRITING
Worksheet)
 READING Grammar - In-text
text book pg exercises
194-
196(passage
2)
DECEMBER GRAMMAR 1.Determiner DS: Worksheet
s http://108.179.198.54:85/schcontent/oct_2016/MES_QUIZ_
Aug16/AG-ENG-CLASS-3-Determiners/AG-ENG-CLASS-3-
Determiners-II.html

Other Links:
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/englishdeterminer

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/determine
r

https://www.newcastle.edu.au/_data/assets/pdf_file/0018/.../
6-Determiners-II.pdf

www.cbse.nic.in/publications/interact_in_english_wb_ix/UNI
T-2.PDF

https:/www.englishgrammar.org
2.Modals https:/www.englishgrammar.org Worksheet

DS:
http://108.179.198.54:85/schcontent/oct_2016/Eng_Worksh
eets/Eng

Tagging/Modal_Verbs/player.html

Other Links:
www.englishch-hilfen.de/en/grammar/hilfsverben2.htm

www.tes.com/teaching- resource/modal-verbs-presentation-
6322696
WRITING 1. 1.Report DS: Dept PPT Notes and
Completion( Grammar.yourdictionary.com/styleand –usage/report- worksheet
SWS- writing-format.html
 Revision)

2.
2. Letter to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFGNKJruxdg Notes and
Editor(LWS)- worksheet
Revision https://www.examples.com/education/report-writing.html

LITERATURE 1.King Lear www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/king-lear Notes 7 In-Text

(Drama) DS. & Dept. PPT Exercises.

PERIODIC TESTS

2. Lines Notes & In-Text

Composed in Exercises.
a Wood on a
Windy
Day(Poem)
JANUARY WRITING Letter to The Worksheet
Vice-
Principal
seeking
permission
for a Study
Tour(LWS)
GRAMMAR Prepositions DS. Grammar Text
http://108.179.198.54:85/schcontent/oct2016/MES_QUIZAu Book
g16/AG Exercises.
Reported -ENG-CLASS-1-Preposition/AG-ENG-CLASS-1-Preposition-
Speech in Lesson.html
Dialogue
format
ACTIVITY Book Review

FEBRUARY WRITING 1.Bio-Sketch DS. Worksheet

(SWS) Dept. PPT
Revision http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnBU8MNDAnQ
 2. Expansion Worksheet
of Proverbs.

GRAMMAR 1. Kinds of DS. Worksheet

Sentences Dept.PPT
(Practice)

2.Integrated
Grammar & Worksheet
Jumbled
Sentences
(Practice)

3. Reported Worksheet
Speech in
Dialogue
format (2)
READING ‘This is Going to Hurt Just a Little Bit’ (Poem –Course
Book))

REVISION Final Term Examination

MARCH FINAL TERM MARCH

01/03/2020 EXAMINATI 01/03/2020 to 12/03/2020
to ON
12/03/2020