ENGLISH ACTIVITIES AND PAPERS FOR GRADE 8

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The Activities I have posted here are based on competencies relevant to Grade 8 students. The activities can be used both by the student and the teacher. I have included answers for most of the Activities , specially to help those who are engaged in self studies.

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 English Activities for Grade 7

       

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Com.1 : Com. Level 1.1 Pronouns English words appropriately.

 

Description:  

Silent letters in words are always problematic to English language learner. If you are a teacher, you may have had this experience with your students. Hence, it is very useful to work with your students with silent letter words. Make a list and get your students to read aloud. Let them understand that certain letters in English words are only written and never pronounced. 

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Never laugh or let others laugh when your student mispronounces a word or hang on a silent letter in a word. 

e.g.  COMB - /b/ silent  

        LISTEN - /t/ silent  

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You can even get your students to make a booklet or  display chart on the wall. 

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Com. 4 : Com. Level 4.4 Uses affixes to change the word classes and the meaning of words. 

Grammar Point: ( in brief ) 

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👴Teacher: elaborate on  this grammar point.

 

An affix is a letter or group of letters added to the beginning or end of word.

               e.g.  un / dis / ness / tion / ly

 By using an affix we can change the meaning of a word and its word class. 

            happy ( an adjective ) 

            unhappy - opposite word of 'happy'. 

            happiness - a noun 

            happily - adverb 

Affixes are of two kinds.

            1) Prefixes : 

             prefixes are added to the beginning of a word.

             un - happy    -  unhappy

             dis - obey      -  disobey 

             re -  write      -  rewrite 

             2) Suffixes: 

             Suffixes are added to the end of a word.

             happy + ness   - happiness

             sad + ly             - sadly 

             write + r            - writer 

             help + ed           - helped 

unhappy / disconnected / incomplete / illegal / unpleasant

  

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 parentless / careless / colourless / legless / penniless 

revision / donation / dictation / conversation / permission 

carelessly / happily / silently / sadly / nicely 

nicely / well / carefully / unfortunately / decorations 

intelligent / longest / more interested / short / best / heavy / happiest / innocent 

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youngest / older / taller / shortest / good / more interested / best

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Com. 5 : Com. Level 5.1 uses visual clues and contextual clues to derive the meaning of a text. 

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They say pictures speak more than words. You can use different pictures with the learner to derive the contextual meaning of a word or a sentence. Most children prefers working with pictures. At the OL examination ( Sri Lanka ) it is usually the 3rd question on the first paper. They also use picture reading as the 1 question, too. Work with pictures. It is interesting. 

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Activity 3: 

Look at the picture and complete the paragraph with the words given beside the picture. 

sunny / crowded / fence / bench / riding / bicycle / having / passing / floating / chasing 

Activity 4

    kitchen / three / their / cooking / spoon / going / pan / fruits / enjoying / youngest 

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Com.8: Com. Level 8.6 uses modals: must / should and have to & Com. 6: Com. Level 6.3 Uses modals: must / have to 

Must: 'must' is the most basic way of saying something is compulsory. 'must' is used to express a strong obligation. It means whether you like it or not ,you have no choice, but 'to do' or 'not to do'.  

Must is used only in the present form. The past form of 'must' is 'had to'. 

e.g. 

I must go there tomorrow. 

I had to go there yesterday.

'must' usually expresses an internal obligation. In other words 'must' is used when the speaker thinks that it is necessary to do so.   

e.g.

I am tired. I must rest now. ( The decision is taken by you )

You must wear seat belts.

I am late. I must go now. 

Have to:

'have to' is used when someone else thinks it is necessary to do so. 'have to' is more flexible than 'must'. Unlike 'must', it can be used in all the three tenses: present, past and future. 

'don't have to' means it is not necessary to do so.  

e.g. 

I have to buy some vegetables for home. 

(*👉May be your wife / husband reminded it)

 

You don't have to bring books tomorrow. There is a Shramadana. 

(*👉It is not necessary to bring books tomorrow.)

 

I have to go now. Mother told me to come early. 

should: 

'should' means it is the right and correct thing to do so. 

 

e.g.

You should wash your hands before eating.   

(Washing hands is the right thing to do.)

must /have to /should / should/has to/have to / have to/should / have to / should

pencil sharpeners / text books / pencil boxes / sisters-in-laws/ shoe racks / fruit sellers / name boards / story books.

butterfly / vegetable bed/ blackboard/ lamp post / rainforest

ache/forest / tennis/mother/bags/ melon/ stop

flowers tree / sister / leaves / sons / month / ladies / flowers / umbrella  

Ants are small insects. They are busy creatures. They live in colonies. They build their colonies in the ground. They are known as ant-hills. They work from morning to night.

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 Com. 7 : Com. Level 7.3 Writes for personal purposes. 

   

    (Use the notice given in activity 4 as a model ) 

  

Com.2 : Com. Level 2.5 Uses inverted commas appropriately

Com. 8 :Com. Level 8.6 Describing the position

Com. 4: Com. level 4.7 uses collective nouns and compound nouns. 

Com. 8: Com. level 8.13 uses language in a variety of contexts.

Complete the dialogues given below. 

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Grade 8 unit 01 
GRAMMAR: REFLEXIVE PRONOUNS 

We use a reflexive pronoun when we want to refer back to the subject of the sentence. Reflexive pronouns end in "-self" (singular) or "-selves" (plural). 
There are 8 reflexive pronouns.

Reflexive Pronouns with Objects

👉 We use verb + reflexive pronoun + object when we do  

         something for ourselves.

       She cooked herself  (a fish curry).

       We taught ourselves (English).

👉  We use verb + object + reflexive pronoun when we want to emphasize that another person did not do the action                 (or assist).

     I repaired (the tire) myself.

     They did (the homework) themselves.

     My brother spoke (to his boss) himself about a raise. 

     By + Reflexive Pronouns

👉 We use by + myself/yourself/himself etc. when we are alone or not with another person.

     Jacob went to the party by himself.

     Emma was sitting by herself. 

  ACTIVITY 1.3 Rearrange the words to form correct sentences to   use reflexive pronouns as objects.

1.herself  / does  / always / she  / things  / by    

2. a  /  I  / dictionary  / myself   / bought  

3. of  /  made / cup  / himself  / he  / a  / tea 

4. a / circle / they / in / arranged  / themselves 

5. defended / the / dog / against / kitten / our / itself  

She always does her things by herself. / I bought myself a dictionary 

He made himself a cup of tea. They arranged themselves in a circle .

Our kitten defended itself against the dog.  

ACTIVITY 01: Follow the example and  mark  with   ^  the position where you can use the word given within brackets. Copy them to your writing book.

* I  ^  prepared the  meals .   [myself]

T/B  1. The teacher telephoned my mother . [herself]

2. My  father  grows  these  vegetables. [himself]

3. They  built  a  house. [themselves] 

4. The  kitten  cleaned. [itself]

5. We  cooked  the  meals. [ourselves]

 Extra: 6.  She painted the picture. [herself]

7. We  baked  the  cake.   [ourselves] 

8. He  killed  before the police came. [ himself]

9.  I  will  do it .   [ myself]

10. Father  washed  the car.  [himself]

11. Please, fill  the  application.  [yourself] 

👱ACTIVITY 02: Underline the suitable reflexive pronouns.

1.Dad and I painted the picture ____.

 [ myself   / himself  / itself  / ourselves]                                  

2. The children made Vesak decorations by  _______ . 

       [ itself  / ourselves / themselves / their selves]

3. We enjoyed ________  playing badminton. 

[ ourself  /  yourself  / ourselves / myself ]                                   

4. Some people only think about ______ . 

[ himself  / ourselves / theirselves / themselves]                         

5. My little sister can dress _______ . 

      [ himself /  itself / herself / yourself ] 

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ACTIVITY 02: Write the words given within brackets in the plural form. 
1. Saman picked some …….[leaf] of the trees as they were covered with some fungi.  
2. I like to read English………[story] very much. 
3. There were three …….[monkey] on the branch.  
4. There were some ....[ deer ] eating in a field. 
5. Mother washed all the …[potato] well before cutting them.
6. I watched two .............[video] of the accident yesterday. 
7. Our cat caught five big .............[mouse] only last week.
8. I don't like those .............[photo] of the party. 
9. There are many ............[woman] who work hard in factories. 
10. Some ................[baby] do not like to drink milk. 
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ACTIVITY 03: Fill in the blanks with the correct passive form of the   verb. 

      I am in Grade 8 C. Our classroom 1)....................[sweep] daily by the girls. The desks and chairs 2)......................[arrange] by the boys. Usually the register 3).........................[bring] the class monitor. However, yesterday, it 4)..............................[bring] by me as the monitor was absent. The teacher's table 5).......................[arrange] by Devika. Our class has a flower bed. It 6)................................[water] by a group of boys. It is one of the cleanest classrooms in our school. 

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The Simple Present Tense

ACTIVITY 04: 

     Fill in the blanks with the with the correct passive form    of the verbs given within brackets. Use The Simple Present , The Simple Past or The Simple Future passive forms. 

1. The gate ........................[paint] by some children last week. 
2. A Photographic Exhibition .............[hold] next week. 
3. Vesak festival .............. [celebrate] all around the world. 
4. The class room .............[sweep] by the girls every day. 
5. The letter ................. [ post ] last Monday. 
6. The trip to Kandy ....................[cancel] due to bad weather. Principal announced it yesterday. 
7. A cricket tournament ...............[hold] in our school next month. 
8. The gates .............[ open ] an hour ago. 
9. I ................. [not invite] to the party as I was in hospital with my grandfather. 
10. Teachers ...................[respect] by students. 

Activity 5: Complete the following note. 
08/07/2018
Kasun,
It is my 13th Birthday 1)............... . So I have 2) ................. a party at our 3) .................. tomorrow evening. All our friends are 4) ............... . Hope you  5).............. come. Please, 6) ............. your video camera. 
                                                                                               Jayantha
   [ would - arranged - tomorrow - bring - home - coming ] 

Competency: 

Extract necessary information from various types of texts. 

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