The English Olympiad Syllabus for Class 8 will cover those topics that improve the communication skills of Class 8 students significantly. The Summer Olympiad will assess technical accuracy and evaluate interpretive thinking, and the Syllabus below is designed to support/encourage focused preparation. Among other things, grammatical principles will teach students about how to change from the active to passive voice, how to identify and write direct and indirect speech, how to accurately use subject/verb agreement in complex sentence structures, etc.
Classic Section: Nouns and Pronouns; Nouns (Nominalisation, Countable and Uncountable); Adverbs and Adjectives; Articles and Prepositions; Conjunctions and Determiners; Verbs and Phrasal Verbs; Tenses; Voices and Narration; One Word Substitutions, Proverbs and Phrasal Verbs, Concord, Question forms, Conditionals, Modals, Reported speech. Collocations, Idioms; Sentences and Sentence Sequencing; Words Related to Leisure, Household Items/Issues, Social Causes, Outdoor Locations and Activities, Etc.; Jumbled Words and Punctuations; Spoken and Written Expression: Ability to Understand Situation-Based Variations In Functions Like Giving Advice, Stating Preferences, Discussing Probability, Making An Offer, Etc.; Synonyms and Antonyms, Homonyms, Homophones, Words Related To Weather, Countries, Language and people, Global problems, Words Related To Social Cause, Travel, Workplace, Etc.; Analogies and Spellings; One Word Substitutions and Idioms; Word Order; Spoken and Written Expression: Ability To Understand Situation-Based Variations In Functions Like Giving/Accepting Compliments, Agreeing, Disagreeing, Requesting, Seeking Information, Pronunciation, Etc.; Comprehension (Prose and Poetry): Acquire Broad Understanding Of and Look For Specific Information In Longer Texts Like Editorials, Essays; Composition.
Scholar Section: Higher Order Thinking Questions - Syllabus as per Classic Section
