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Class 8

English: Poorvi

86 lessons in 5 chapters, explained in plain words.

Wit and Wisdom

  1. The court of Krishnadeva Raya
  2. A quarrel over a yawn
  3. The paddy seeds
  4. Words that make a sound
  5. Compound words
  6. If clauses
  7. Asking well
  8. Writing a narrative essay
  9. A Concrete Example
  10. Refrain, alliteration and irony
  11. The pun in the title
  12. Tools, gadgets and appliances
  13. Saying sorry, and writing a notice
  14. The road to Ujjain
  15. Four deductions
  16. Noun forms and many-meaning words
  17. Modal verbs, stress and a letter of complaint

Values and Dispositions

  1. Operation Gulmarg
  2. The Battle of Badgam
  3. The legacy
  4. Expressions of battle, and collective nouns
  5. Over- verbs, and c or s
  6. Subject-verb agreement
  7. A letter of enquiry
  8. Somebody's Mother
  9. How the poem is made
  10. Antonyms, actions and 'lest'
  11. Idioms with 'hand', and -ed endings
  12. Writing a diary entry
  13. A letter to Siddharth
  14. The choices, and integrity
  15. Fact and opinion
  16. Expressions, synonyms and dashes
  17. Its and it's, and prepositional phrases
  18. Stress, -sure sounds and chunking

Mystery and Magic

  1. Encyclopedia Brown
  2. The fifth word
  3. Fact, opinion and character
  4. Phrasal verbs and homophones
  5. Joining clauses
  6. Reporting what was asked
  7. Speaking clearly, and writing a report
  8. Gopi and the magic brush
  9. Gopi and the Zamindar
  10. How the poem works
  11. Draw, and sudden feelings
  12. Commands and requests
  13. Writing an imaginative essay
  14. Spectacular wonders, part one
  15. Spectacular wonders, part two
  16. Expressions, synonyms and binomials
  17. Participles and gerunds

Environment

  1. One small seed
  2. Cherry trees are tough
  3. Is this what it feels to be God?
  4. Words for cutting, tasting and opposing
  5. Looking back in three ways
  6. Punctuation
  7. Syllables, and writing an article
  8. Harvest Hymn
  9. Old words and poetic devices
  10. The farmer's tools
  11. Silent letters, and writing a slogan
  12. Waiting for the rain
  13. Let the land rest
  14. Homophones and collocations
  15. The present, in three ways
  16. Determiners
  17. Fallowing, and a letter to the Councillor

Science and Curiosity

  1. A canary in a space station
  2. The bird that stopped singing
  3. A canary in the coal mine
  4. Adjectives and merged words
  5. Talking about the future
  6. Silent letters, and asking for advice
  7. Magnifying Glass
  8. Quatrains and devices
  9. Words, groups and eyes
  10. The sounds /v/ and /f/, and writing a conversation
  11. Bibha Chowdhuri
  12. Breaking boundaries
  13. From shadows to the stars
  14. Antonyms and precise words
  15. Building and shortening words
  16. Active and passive voice
  17. A panel discussion, and a report