CBSE Class 8 English Sample Class Test

  CLASS: VIII Subject: English Read the following passage carefully:                                  …

CBSE Class 8 English Literature Poem Punishment In Kindergarten By Kamala Das

POEM: Punishment In Kindergarten By Kamala Das About The Poet:  Kamala Das was born in Kerala - India in 1934. She was educated mainly at home. Her short stories and poems are written in Malayalam and in English. She has published a number of books of poems and an…

CBSE Class 8 English Literature Poem Geography Lesson By Zulfikar Ghose

POEM: Geography Lesson  By Zulfikar Ghose About the poet. Born in Sialkot, India (now Pakistan), Zulfikar Ghose grew up as a Muslim. His father, Khwaja Mohammed Ghose, was a businessman. In 1942, during the Second World War, the family moved to Bombay (now Mumbai). After the…

CBSE Class 8 English Literature Poem A Devoted Son By Anita Desai

PROSE:A Devoted Son By Anita Desai  About the author: Anita Mazumdar Desai (born 24 June 1937) is an Indian novelist. Anita Mazumdar was born in Jaipur, India, to a German mother, Toni Nime, and a Bengali businessman, D. N. Mazumdar.She grew up speaking German at home and …

CBSE Class 8 English Literature Poem The Village Blacksmith By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

LITERATURE READER POEM: The Village Blacksmith By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow About the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was…

CBSE Class 8 English Literature Poem The Listeners Bywalter De La Mare

LITERATURE READER POEM: The Listeners Bywalter De La Mare ABOUT THE AUTHOR Walter John de la Mare was an English poet, short story writer and novelist, probably best remembered for his works for children and The Listeners. He came from a family of French Huguenots, and was…

CBSE Class 8 English Literature Poem The Homecoming By Rabindranath Tagore

LITERATURE READER PROSE:The Homecoming  By Rabindranath Tagore About the author Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941)Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath(a person of wider knowledge) who reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.…

CBSE Class 8 English Literature Poem The Hitch Hiker By Roald Dahl

PROSE:The Hitch-Hiker By Roald Dahl ABOUT THE AUTHOR Roald Dahl (1916–1990) was a British author and scriptwriter, and "the most popular writer of children's book since Enid Blyton", according to Philip Howard, the literary editor of The Times. The death of an elder sister…

CBSE Class 8 English Grammar Conditional Clauses Using If

GRAMMAR 7. Conditional Clauses Using  ‘If’ Conditional tenses are used to speculate about what could happen, what might have happened, and what we wish would happen. In English, most sentences using the conditional contain the word if. Many conditional forms in English are…

CBSE Class 8 English Literature Poem Communication Aisha Sherazi

Poem: Communication  By Aisha Sherazi About the Poet Aisha Sherazi is a freelance writer, teacher ,parent and wife based in Canada. She has written many  thought-provoking poems on a variety of topics which include gender issues, global warming and terrorism. She is also known…

CBSE Class 8 English Literature Prose Mr Bean Interview

Prose: Mr. Bean’s Interview Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson are the creators of the lovable, comical character, Mr. Bean. The first episode of the original Mr. Bean series starring Rowan Atkinson was first broadcast on 1st January 1990. Since then Mr. Bean has become known…

CBSE Class 8 English Literature Drama Eliza George Bernard Shaw

Drama: Eliza  By George Bernard Shaw About the author George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist whose influence on Western theatre, culture, and politics extended from…

CBSE Class 8 English Literature Prose My Friend Luke Fernando Sorrentino

Prose: My Friend Luke By Fernando Sorrentino About the author Fernando Sorrentino (born November 8, 1942 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine writer. His works have been translated into English, Portuguese, Italian, German, French, Finnish, Hungarian, Polish, Bulgarian, Chinese,…

CBSE Class 8 English Literature Poem For Every Hill Ive Had To Climb E L Thayer

Ernest Lawrence Thayer (August 14, 1863 – August 21, 1940) was an American writer and poet who wrote the poem "Casey" (or "Casey at the Bat"), which is "the single most famous baseball poem ever written" according to the Baseball Almanac, and "the nation’s best-known piece of …

CBSE Class 8 English Literature Fight Manju Fight Sigrun Srivastava

Sigrun Srivastav is an Indian author of German origin. She is a multi-faceted artist, a writer, a sculptor and an illustrator. As a writer she has written over 25 books for children of all ages. Her interests as an illustrator and a writer come together in her picture books…