Online English Olympiad Classes for Grade 8
Syllabus
Chapter 1
Synonyms, Antonyms, Homonyms and Homophones
Chapter 2
Analogies and Spellings
Chapter 3
One word substitutions, Phrasal Verbs and Idioms or Proverbs
Chapter 4
Nouns and Pronouns
Nouns
- Form and use plurals: review
- Form and use plurals of compound nouns
- Identify plurals, singular possessives and plural possessives
- Form the singular or plural possessive
- Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns
- Identify and correct errors with compound and joint possession
Pronouns
- Identify pronouns and their antecedents
- Use the pronoun that agrees with the antecedent
- Choose between subject and object pronouns
- Compound subjects and objects with 'I' and 'me'
- Compound subjects and objects with pronouns
- Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns
- Use reflexive pronouns
- Is the pronoun reflexive or intensive?
- Use relative pronouns: who and whom
- Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which and that
- Identify vague pronoun references
- Identify all of the possible antecedents
Chapter 5
Verbs and adverbs
Verbs and verbals
- Identify transitive and intransitive verbs
- Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives and predicate nouns
- Correct errors with subject-verb agreement
- Correct errors with indefinite pronoun-verb agreement
- Use the correct verb – with compound subjects
- Irregular past tense: review
- Simple past, present and future tense: review
- Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense
- Form the progressive verb tenses
- Form the perfect verb tenses
- Identify active and passive voice
- Rewrite the sentence in active voice
- Identify participles and what they modify
- Identify gerunds and their functions
- Identify infinitives and infinitive phrases
Chapter 6
Adjectives
Adjectives and adverbs
- Identify adjectives
- Order adjectives
- Identify adverbs
- Choose between adjectives and adverbs
- Is the word an adjective or adverb?
- Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives
- Good, better, best, bad, worse and worst
- Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs
- Well, better, best, badly, worse and worst
Chapter 7
Articles and Prepositions
Chapter 8
Prepositions, Prepositional Phrases, Participle Phrases
Chapter 9
Conjunctions, Determiners
Chapter 10
Jumbled Words
Chapter 11
Punctuations
Chapter 12
Tenses
Chapter 13
Voices and Narration - Question Tags
Chapter 14
Words related to leisure, Household items/issues, Social causes, Outdoor locations and activities, etc.
Chapter 15
Search for and retrieve information from various text types like News reports, Blurb, Dictionaries, etc.
Chapter 16
Comprehension (Prose and Poetry)
Chapter 17
Understand information presented in instruction manual format, Message format and others
Chapter 18
Acquire broad understanding of and look for specific information in longer texts like editorials, essays, etc.
Chapter 19
Spoken and Written Expression: Ability to understand situation-based variations in functions like requesting, giving information, expressing surprise, pronunciation etc.
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