INDIAN SCHOOL MUSCAT MIDDLE SECTION DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH PORTION & BLUE PRINT FOR THE HALF YEARLYEXAMINATION CLASS VIII 2019 -20 SNO
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Reading skill 2 unseen passages for comprehension Writing skill Short writing skills a) Précis b) Notice writing c) Message writing Long writing skill d) Story Writing e) Speech for Morning Assembly f) Letter of complaint Grammar a) Finites /Non –Finite Verbs (Gerunds,Infinitives, Participles) b) Tenses (all except Future Perfect Continuous) c) Integrated Grammar/Jumbled Sentences d) Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
Objective Type Questions ½ or1 mark 14 ( ½ ) 2 (1)
Very Short Answer Question 1 mark
Short Short Answer Answer Questions Questions 2 marks 3 marks
Long Answer Questions 4 or 5 marks
Very Total long marks answer questio ns 6 or 8 marks
6 (1) 15
3 (4)
1 (6)
18 (18 x ½)
11 (1)
20
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e) Reported Speech (Declaratives, Interrogatives, Imperatives, Exclamatory, ) Except Exclamatory rest Direct to Indirect and vice versa f) Idioms and Proverbs Literature Prose a) The Happy Prince b) Fire Buckets c) Aachchi Poem a) The Hero b) The Village Schoool Master MARKS ALLOTMENT: SECTION D *Word Meanings – 2 marks * Antonyms – 2 marks * An extract from poem/prose for reference to context - 3 marks. * An extract from prose/poem for reference to context- 4 marks. *Five short answer type questions based on prose & poetry (5 X2 =10marks) (Word limit- 3040 words) * One out of two long answer type questions based on prose -6 marks. NOTE - Refer to the text book, workbook, notes and worksheets given. Total
Anu B. Mathew Head of Department, English
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4 (1)
3 (1)
5 (2)
1 (6)
8 (1/2)
27
46 (26)
20 (20)
5 (10)
3 (12)
2 (12)
80
