The Grammar Trail For Class - VIII

Effective communication in a language requires a deep knowledge of its grammatical structure, an enriched vocabulary bank, reading and listening, comprehension and sound writing skills in various formats.

English writing is a process of communicating (content) on paper. The material like picture clues; flashcards; audio-video clips and age appropriate story books which are easily available, can easily provide a stimulating context and motivate learners to participate and generate content. Another way of generating content in the writing class is to use artworks. The main criteria for selecting art to be used for English language classroom activities are available in an inexpensive form for the specific activity and learner levels. The teacher can promote collaborative writing by using the internet, computer and artworks as aids.

Grammar serves as a binder of the various language skills and needs to be learnt in a contextualised manner. It should enable the learners to make connections with their environment and give voice to their expressions in a grammatically correct way.

1. The Sentence

2. Sentence Structure

3. Transformation of Sentences

4. Nouns

5. Pronouns

6. Adjectives and Determiners

7. Verbs

8. The Present Tense

9. The Past Tense

10. The Future Tense

11. Regular and Irregular Verbs

12. Non-Finite Verbs

13. The Modals

14. Active and Passive Voice

15. Adverbs

16. Prepositions

17. Conjunctions

18. Direct and Indirect Speech

19. Phrases

20. The Conditional

21. Punctuation, Apostrophe and Capitalisation

22. Building the Word Bank

23. Comprehension and Composition