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अङ्ग्रेजी · Class 8 · Code BEE-8
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The syllabus asks for
- Reading a timetable and a schedule; finding information in a table
- A request letter: purpose, politeness and layout
- Grammar: modal verbs (can, could, would); present simple tense
- Writing: interpreting a timetable and a schedule; filling in a form
- Project work: designing a timetable; pronunciation: word stress
Key points
- A timetable lists activities and times; for "how long", subtract one time from another (9:15 → 9:45 = 30 minutes).
- The zoo notice: tour on 24th June, led by Mrs. Karki; four animal groups — birds, reptiles, mammals, amphibians; attendance twice.
- The request letter: thanks → problem (too few computers, little software, no internet) → polite request with would; closes Yours faithfully.
- can = present ability/informal request; could = past ability/polite request; would = very polite request, imagined result, wish, would rather.
- Modal + base verb; no -s; question = modal first.
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The syllabus asks for
- A letter of advice: tone, point of view and structure
- Poetry: theme, speaker and the idea of personal change
- Grammar: yes/no questions
- Writing: completing a skeleton story; writing an e-mail
- Project work: composing a poem; pronunciation: /t/, /d/, /ɪd/
Key points
- Story: the boy travels alone; his father's note says he is in the adjacent compartment, and the boy's fear vanishes — a parent's love protects quietly.
- Poem: the speaker failed to change the world, nation, town and family; he learns that change begins with himself and spreads outward.
- Yes/no question = helping verb + subject + …; use do/does/did when there is no helping verb, then the base verb.
- some becomes any in questions; short answers use the helping verb.
- Permission: Can/May I…?, Is it okay if I…?, Would you mind if I + past?; "Not at all" means yes.
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The syllabus asks for
- Announcements: the language of notice-giving
- Instructions and the sequence of steps
- Grammar: reported speech — yes/no questions
- Writing: writing an announcement; preparing a set of instructions
- Pronunciation: /r/
Key points
- Announcements give what, when, where, who and end with a request and thanks.
- Flight RA-402, Kathmandu → New Delhi: seatbelts, baggage under seat or overhead, seat upright, gadgets off, no smoking.
- Parents Day: 22nd March, 11 a.m., Assembly Hall, 42nd anniversary, chief guest the Mayor of Bardaghat (an ex-student).
- Reported yes/no question: asked + if/whether + subject + verb, tense one step back, no question mark.
- Present reporting verb (says/asks) → no tense change.
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The syllabus asks for
- Memoir and diary as records of personal experience
- Descriptive writing about a place and an event
- Grammar: present perfect and past simple
- Writing: an account of a memorable event; a diary entry
- Pronunciation: diphthongs
Key points
- A memoir and a diary are first-person, true, mostly past-tense records with feelings; a diary has date, Dear Diary, events, feelings, reflection.
- Mustang memoir: Pokhara → Tatopani (hot spring, 7 hours) → Kagbeni (Kali Gandaki) → Muktinath (Hindu and Buddhist; five-colour flags) → Marpha (apples, flat roofs, alleyways).
- Neil's diary: Dhading village with a Nepali friend; bumpy bus, songs, family lunch; admires Nepali friendliness.
- Present perfect = has/have + pp, linked to now (ever, never, yet, since, for). Past simple = finished time (yesterday, ago, last…).
- since + point of time; for + length of time.
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The syllabus asks for
- Narrative fiction: plot, character and message
- Poetry: freedom as a theme; imagery
- Grammar: reported speech — imperatives; punctuation
- Writing: completing a skeleton story
- Project work: collecting the expressions used for persuading
Key points
- Folk tale: six wishes — cart, hut, livestock, money, power, the village's labour; the last wish loses everything. Moral: greed brings ruin.
- Poem Free Birds: students = free birds (metaphor); overcome hindrances with determination; value time; be patriots.
- Reported imperatives: reporting verb + person + (not) to + base verb.
- Choose the verb by purpose: told/ordered, asked/requested, advised, warned/forbade.
- say takes no person object; tell does.
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The syllabus asks for
- Descriptive writing about ceremonies and customs
- Expository writing about inventions and their effect
- Grammar: causative verbs; subject–verb agreement
- Writing: describing a ceremony; paraphrasing
- Project work: making a collage; pronunciation: /s/, /z/, /ɪz/
Key points
- Weddings: India (engagement, Mehendi, garlands), Japan (costume changes, san-san-kudo with sake, money in envelopes), Jamaica (whole village, review of the bride, black cake), Wales (wooden spoon, "kidnapped" bride).
- Inventions: Hippo-roller (90 L), LifeStraw (cleans up to 1,000 L), AidPod (medicine in Coca-Cola crates, tested in Zambia).
- Causatives: have/make/let + person + base verb; get + person + to + verb; have/get + thing + past participle; passive be made to.
- Agreement: and → plural; either/or → nearer subject; with/including do not change the subject; gerunds and sums → singular.
- Paraphrase = same meaning, new words and structures, nothing added.
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The syllabus asks for
- The language of weather forecasting and prediction
- Migration: causes, kinds and effects
- Grammar: future simple, going to future and future perfect
- Writing: paragraphs on the environment
- Project work: designing a picture; punctuation
Key points
- Weather table: Nepalgunj hottest (36.6 °C); Pokhara most rain (40.2 mm); Nepalgunj, Ghorahi, Janakpur no rain; Kathmandu coolest.
- Migration = moving to live elsewhere; push factors drive out, pull factors attract.
- Benefits: labour, business, skills, culture; drawbacks: brain drain, low pay, environmental pressure, cultural displacement.
- will: decision now, opinion prediction, offer, condition.
- be going to: plan, prediction from evidence.
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The syllabus asks for
- Talking about the past in narration
- Historical inventions and their importance
- Grammar: past simple, past continuous and past perfect; used to
- Writing: completing a skeleton story; a narrative essay
- Project work: making a survey; pronunciation of the past tense endings
Key points
- Having Fun: the son planned mischief; the father put coins in the shoes; the farmer could buy medicine and food. Lesson: real joy is in giving.
- Inventions in the text: Watt (steam engine), Stephenson (locomotive), Daimler (car, 1885), Faraday (electricity), Wright brothers (aeroplane, 1903), Sputnik 1 (1957), Marconi (radio), Baird (TV), Bell (telephone, 1876), Fessenden (wireless telephone, 1900), Cooper (mobile phone).
- Past continuous = background action; past simple = interrupting action; past perfect = earlier action.
- used to / didn't use to / did … use to for past habits.
- Narrative essay: what, when, where, what happened, feelings.
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The syllabus asks for
- Making comparison and contrast in writing
- Advantages and disadvantages of technology
- Grammar: comparative and superlative forms of adjectives and adverbs
- Writing: a paragraph comparing places; an essay on technology
- Project work: making a survey; pronunciation: college-related words
Key points
- College vs high school: more cost (tuition, residence, books), more workload (more and harder assignments, grade pressure), more social life (sports, clubs, facilities).
- Smartphones: one device for everything; easy information makes us lazier; constant connection is tiring; they replaced landlines, desktops and cameras.
- Comparatives: -er / more; superlatives: the -est / the most; irregular good–better–best, bad–worse–worst.
- than; as … as; not as … as; never more better.
- Adverbs: hard–harder, carefully–more carefully, well–better–best.
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The syllabus asks for
- Reading a job advertisement: the information it must give
- Invitations: formal and informal; accepting and declining
- Grammar: prepositions of place and time; question tags
- Writing: a vacancy advertisement; a message of invitation
- Project work: designing an invitation card; pronunciation of -tion and -sion
Key points
- A vacancy announcement gives organisation, post, requirements, duration, deadline and how to apply.
- UN Women Nepal: ICT and Administrative Support (SB-3) and Driver (SB-2), Kathmandu, one year, closing 21 Nov. 2021; inclusive.
- Informal invitation: friendly, first person; formal card: third person, cordially request your presence, RSVP.
- at times, on days/dates, in months/years/parts of the day; on time / in time.
- Question tags: opposite polarity, same auxiliary, pronoun; aren't I, shall we, positive tag after never/hardly/nobody.
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The syllabus asks for
- Biography: the life and work of a scientist
- Describing a place: location, features and importance
- Grammar: relative clauses; articles
- Writing: preparing a leaflet; writing a set of rules
- Project work: collecting information about a place; tongue twisters
Key points
- Newton: born 1643, Woolsthorpe; dull as a child but clever with his hands; Cambridge at 19; professor at 26; mirror telescope; theory of gravitation; famously absent-minded.
- Khaptad NP: est. 1984, 225 km², four districts of Sudurpaschim, 22 patans, Khaptad Daha, Triveni, Sahashra Linga (3,276 m), 266 birds, 23 mammals; entry Rs. 100 for Nepalis.
- who people, which things, whose possession, where place, when time; that not after a comma.
- a/an by sound; the for specific/unique/superlative/instruments; no article for meals, sports, languages.
- Leaflet: location, attractions, how to get there, provisions, best time.
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The syllabus asks for
- A profile of a conservationist, and the work of bird conservation in Nepal
- Humorous poetry: exaggeration and rhyme
- Grammar: verb + -ing and infinitive; yes/no and wh questions
- Writing: an essay on hobbies and interests
- Project work: collecting a poem; pronunciation of words with -ch
Key points
- Hari Sharan Nepali (Kazi Dai): self-taught ornithologist; co-founded the Nepal Bird Watching Club → Bird Conservation Nepal; Lumbini Crane Sanctuary; 13 new bird species for Nepal; died 19 May 2021.
- Nepal has more than 880 bird species.
- Poem: the teacher eats the homework — because it is a cooking class; rhyme in lines 2 and 4; surprise ending.
- enjoy/mind/avoid/finish/keep + -ing; want/would like/agree/learn/decide + to; preposition + -ing.
- Wh-question = wh + auxiliary + subject + verb; subject questions need no do.
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The syllabus asks for
- Reading and interpreting charts, graphs and tables
- Drama: plot, characters and stage directions
- Grammar: much/many, some/any; expressing quantity
- Writing: writing a description of data; presenting data in a graph
- Pronunciation: words used to interpret charts and graphs
Key points
- Nepal's tigers: 121 (2009) → 198 (2013) → 235 (2018) → 355 (2022); TX2 target from the 2010 St. Petersburg Declaration; Banke NP, Parsa extension, PM-chaired committee, WCCB, 450+ anti-poaching units.
- Drama A Mousetrap: chicken, lamb and buffalo refuse to help and are all eaten; moral — help others in need.
- Countable: many, a few, fewer; uncountable: much, a little, less; both: some, any, a lot of, enough, no.
- some in positives and offers; any in negatives and questions.
- Describing a chart: introduction, overview, details with numbers, trend words.
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The syllabus asks for
- Folk tale: honesty, courage and the test of the mirror
- Poetry: the conditional and the imagination
- Grammar: conditional sentences, types 1, 2 and 3
- Writing: completing a story; writing a news story
- Project work: preparing a draft of a speech; pronunciation: British and American differences
Key points
- The Magic Mirror: the barber's "magic" mirror tests honesty and courage; the confident shepherd girl wins; "If you had been as confident…, you might have been the queen."
- Poem: second-conditional wishes — fly, jump towers, clean the oceans, save nature, feed the poor, make the world better.
- Zero: if + present, present. Type 1: if + present, will. Type 2: if + past, would. Type 3: if + had + V3, would have + V3.
- No will/would in the if-clause; If I were… in formal English.
- News story: headline, byline, dateline, lead (5W1H), body.
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The syllabus asks for
- Argumentative writing on conservation
- Notices: purpose, audience and format
- Grammar: connectives of reason, purpose and contrast
- Writing: an argumentative essay; an official notice
- Project work: preparing a bulletin board; English consonants
Key points
- Natural habitat = where a creature and its ancestors have always lived; wild creatures cannot survive long elsewhere.
- Conservation moved from banning hunting/poaching/overfishing to saving whole habitats; threats: deforestation, global warming; extinction is permanent.
- The biosphere gives food, building materials, fuel, medicine; destroying it threatens humans.
- Notice (26 Poush 2078): schools closed 27 Poush–15 Magh due to COVID-19; vaccination for 12–17-year-olds.
- because + clause / because of + noun; so that + clause / (in order) to + verb; although + clause / in spite of + noun or -ing; however starts a new sentence.
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The syllabus asks for
- Anecdote and personal narrative
- Historical writing about an everyday object
- Grammar: past simple, past continuous, past perfect
- Writing: a story; paragraphs about historical events
- Project work: describing major events; words with silent letters
Key points
- Anecdote: the writer gained weight after college; Whole30 and a podcast led her to a holistic lifestyle; she went vegan to feel better; protein from beans and chickpeas; it was easier than expected.
- Pens: reed (Egypt) → quill (feathers, ~12 centuries) → steel dip pen (Mitchell) → fountain (Poenaru 1827; Waterman 1884) → ballpoint (Loud 1888; Bíró 1943; Bic).
- Past simple = events; past continuous = background/interrupted action; past perfect = earlier action.
- Historical paragraphs: time order, exact dates, causes and results.
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The syllabus asks for
- Story: suspense, character and resolution
- Poetry: rhythm and the scenery of a journey
- Grammar: voice (active and passive)
- Writing: an e-mail; a reply letter to an invitation
- Project work: collecting expressions to make offers and to accept or decline
Key points
- Naresh, a poor farmer, helps a sick stranger despite having little; the stranger shows him a pot of money; moral — selfless kindness is rewarded.
- Offers: Can I…? Shall I…? Would you like (me to)…? — accept Yes, please; decline No, thanks.
- Passive = object → subject + be (same tense) + V3 (+ by agent).
- is being, was being, has been, had been, will be, will have been, must be + V3.
- Stevenson's poem: train faster than fairies; similes, couplets, galloping rhythm; each sight "a glimpse and gone forever".
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The syllabus asks for
- Discussion and opinion writing on a social problem
- Poetry: the theme and the structure of the poem
- Grammar: intensifiers (too, enough); subject–verb agreement
- Writing: an opinion essay; punctuation
- Project work: filling in a survey form and making a presentation
Key points
- Road accidents: not only poor roads but driver negligence, young fast riders and drink-driving; solutions — raise licence age, monitor youth, strict checks, better roads through coordination.
- Long Life: too short for complaints and grudges; long enough for beauty, laughter, compassion and generosity.
- too + adj + to (negative result); adj + enough + to (positive result); too young = not old enough.
- Agreement: and → plural; everyone / one of / amounts / -ics → singular; or → nearer subject; some of + plural → plural.
- Opinion essay: introduction with opinion → reasons and examples → other side → conclusion.
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The syllabus asks for
- Folk narrative and its moral
- The newspaper report: headline, lead and body
- Grammar: reported speech
- Writing: a story; a news report
- Project work: designing the front page of a newspaper; consonant clusters
Key points
- A Tale of Two Birds: twin birds raised near robbers and near a hermit speak like their company; "One is known by the company one keeps."
- PRIA: Nepal's third international airport, inaugurated 1 January 2023 by PM Pushpa Kamal Dahal; Himalaya Airlines landed the first A320.
- Reported speech: said/told that; asked if/whether; asked + wh-word + statement order; told/ordered/requested + (not) to.
- Back-shift tenses after a past reporting verb; no back-shift after says or for universal truths.
- now → then, today → that day, tomorrow → the next day, here → there, this → that.
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Objective questions
Compulsory English: Unit-wise Objective Question Bank
Subjective questions
Compulsory English: Writing and Grammar Question Bank
Model sets and predicted questions
Compulsory English: Model Question Sets and Predicted Questions
Exam guide
The Basic Level Examination: Pattern, Grid and Strategy
The paper
Basic Education Examination (BEE), grade 8. The CDC basic-level assessment scheme gives continuous (internal) assessment 50 % weight and the external written paper 50 %; the local level (palika) conducts and marks it. English has no Group A/B/C paper: the paper tests reading comprehension, grammar and writing, so the practice sets here use reading, grammar and writing sections with full answer keys.