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GRADE 8
ENGLISH
WEEK 1
ACTIVITIES
Submission Date:
Thru LMS Sept. 03, 2021

PREPARED BY:
MRS. ARLENE C. ATIENZA
TEACHER

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PRE-ASSESSMENT

GRAMMAR
Direction: Choose the letter of the correct answer.

1. I __b._play_______________ tennis every Sunday Morning.

a. playing b. play c. am playing d. am play

2. Don’t make so much noise. Noriko _d._is trying________ to study for her ESL test.

a. try b. tries c. tried d. is trying

3. Marcus ____c.___cleans______ his teeth before breakfast every morning.

a. will cleaned b. is cleaning c. cleans d. clean

4. Sorry, she can’t come to the phone. She ___a._is having________ a bath.

a. is having b. having c. have d. has

5. ____a.__It snows______ many times every winter in Canada.

a. It snows b. It snowed c. It is snowing d. It is snow

6. How many students in your class ___b.__come_________ from Korea?

a. comes b. come c. came d. are

coming

7. Babies _a.__cry________ when they are hungry.

a. cry b. cries c. cried d. are crying

8. Jane: “What _c. __do you do_______ in the evenings?” Mary: “Usually, I watch TV

or read a book.”

a. you doing b. you do c. do you do d. are you doing

9. Michelle _____d. is wearing_______ her blue jeans today, but usually she wears

skirt or a dress.

a. wears b. wearing c. wear d. is wearing

10. I think I __c._need_____ a new calculator. This one does not work properly

anymore.

a. needs b. needed c. need d. am needing

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 ACTIVITY #1.1

NAME:Louis Antonio B. Gonzales DATE: Aug. 30, 2021

SECTION: 8 – Carnation -A SCORE:

Directions: Look for the line of the given context clues below and search for the
meaning in the dictionary.

Boating Song Recruiting Officer of Shih-Ha

LINE MEANING LINE MEANING

NO. NO.

Sandalwood 1 A class of wood from Recruiting 2 A person whose job t

trees in the genus officer recruit staff
Santalum
Yellow 5 One of the four great Pitiable 6 Arousing pity
Crane towers of China

Single 10 Single of moving a pen Tattered 16 Turned into shreds

Stroke when it is being used to Skirt
write
Vaster 11 Of very great size, Gruel 20 A thin liquid food of
enormous oatmeal or other mea
boiled in milk or wate
Northwest 12 Toward the northwest Half- 22 Partially hidden
ward Concealed

ACTIVITY #1.2
POETRY

NAME: Louis Antonio B. Gonzales DATE: Aug. 30, 2021

SECTION: 8- Carnation A SCORE:

Directions: Choose one of the 3 poems (Lyric, Narrative, Epic) and then create
your own. Choose one of the topics in the box below.

FAMILY FRIENDS SPECIAL EARTH

SOMEONE
ARTISTS TEACHERS COMMUNITY VIRUS
COVID-19

__________MY FAMILY________
(TITLE)

I love my family
They make me feel happy
They’re always on my side
When ever I need a guide.

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 They always take care of me
Even though they’re busy as a bee
They always protect me
And make me worry free.

EXERCISE #1.1
IDIOMATIC PHRASES AND EXPRESSIONS

A. Direction: Connect the idioms in column A with their meanings in column B.

A B
__b___1. in your dreams a. an idea or plan that could never happen because
it is impossible

___e__2. a dream come true b. something is unlikely to happen; something that

you say to someone who’s hoping for something
that you don’t believe will happen
___d__3. broken dreams c. would not even consider doing something
because it’s wrong
___C__4. wouldn’t dream of doing d. wishes or desires that could never happen
because it is impossible
___A__5. a pipe dream e. something that you wanted very much for a long
time that has happened as hoped for.

B. Complete the following sentences by filling in the appropriate idioms.

heavy heart eating his heart out aching heart

has a heart of stone followed his heart

6. The pain from the man’s sorrow is ___eating his heart out________________.
7. The boy ______followed his heart________ and married his girlfriend.
8. The man who murdered the students’ _______has a heart of stone___________.
9. The young man spent the whole month alone with his ____aching heart__________.
10. He left her with a _____heavy heart_______________, wondering if she would ever
recover.

“It always seems impossible until it’s done”

-Nelson Mandela
Submitted by:
_________________
MRS. ARLENE C. ATIENZA

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