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Sem1 Sample 08 ENGLANG

The document outlines the English Language examination for Class 8 at St. Stephens School, Chandigarh, for the first semester of the 2024-2025 academic year. It includes various writing tasks such as composing an original story, writing letters, and answering comprehension questions based on a provided passage. Additionally, it features grammar exercises and instructions for students to complete within a two-hour timeframe.

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Sem1 Sample 08 ENGLANG

The document outlines the English Language examination for Class 8 at St. Stephens School, Chandigarh, for the first semester of the 2024-2025 academic year. It includes various writing tasks such as composing an original story, writing letters, and answering comprehension questions based on a provided passage. Additionally, it features grammar exercises and instructions for students to complete within a two-hour timeframe.

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ST.

STEPHENS SCHOOL, SECTOR 45 B, CHANDIGARH


FIRST SEMESTER SEMESTER EXAMINATION, 2024-2025
CLASS 8
Time: 2 hours ENGLISH LANGUAGE M.M: 50
1. Write an original composition of around (300-350) words on any ONE of
the following. (15)
a) You have recently been through a situation that taught you to appreciate
what you have. Narrate briefly the incident.
b) Describe a peaceful place that you’ve recently visited. What was it about
that place that left a last impression on you?
c) Games like ‘PUBG’ are bad for the younger generation. State your views
on the subject.
d) Write an original short story that brings out the truth of the proverb
“Rome wasn’t build in a day”
e) Study the picture given below. Write a short story, or a description or an
account of what it suggests to you. Your composition may be about the
subject of the picture or you may take suggestions from it, however
there must be a clear connection between the picture and your
composition.

2. Write on any one of the following: (10)


a) Write a letter to your friend requesting him/her to help you out in a
difficult situation. Explain what the situation is and how his/her help
may help you overcome it.
b) You are deeply saddened by the attacks on elderly people who live
alone. Write a letter to the editor of a local newspaper making people
and authorities aware of such problems, also suggesting some
measures to overcome them.

3.
a) Your school is organizing an Inter-School Quiz Competition for classes 6
to 9. Write a notice for the school notice board informing students about
the event and inviting them to participate in it. (2)
b) Write an e-mail to the Principal of a neighboring school requesting
him/her to send a team of six students from class 6 to 9 to participate in
the Inter- School Quiz Competition. (3)

4. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that
follow: (10)

All the same, I took home a number of frogs, placed them in a large glass
Jar and left them on the window-sill of my bedroom.
At about four o’clock in the morning the whole household was awakened
by a loud and fearful noise, and my grandparents, aunts and servants
gathered on the verandah for safety. They were furious when they
discovered that my frogs were the cause of the noise. Seeing the dawn
breaking, the frogs had with one accord begun their mourning songs.
Grandmother wanted to throw the frogs, bottle and all, out of the
window, but grandfather gave the bottle a good shaking and the frogs
stayed quiet. Everyone went back to bed, but I was obliged to stay
awake, to shake the bottle whenever the frogs showed sign of bursting
into song.
I was soon visiting the pond on my own. Exploring its banks and
shallows; and taking off my shoes, I would wade into the muddy water
up to my knees.
One day, when I reached the pond, I found it occupied by buffaloes.
Their owner, a boy, a little older than me, was swimming about in the
middle of the pond.
When the boy saw me staring at him, he smiled and invited me into the
water for a swim. I told him I couldn’t swim, and he offered to teach me.
I hesitated, knowing that grandmother held strict views about my mixing
with village children; but, deciding that grandfather would get me out of
any trouble that might arise, I took the bold step of accepting the boy’s
offer.
He swam across to me. And I having removed my shirt and shorts,
followed his instructions until I was floundering among the water lilies.
His name was Ramu, and he promised to give me swimming lessons
every afternoon; and so, it was during the afternoons- when everyone
was asleep – that we met.

a) Give the meanings of each of the following words as used in the passage.
(3)
1) wade
2) staring
3) hesitated

b) Answer the following questions in your own words. (3)

1) What awoke the household?


2) Why were they all hungry?
3) Who did the author befriend and why?

c) Summary Writing

In not more than 50 words, write the summary of the passage. (4)

5. a) Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verb given in the
brackets. (2)
(1) The police _______ (investigate) the robbery that (2) _____ (take) place
last week. So far, they (3) ______ (discover) nothing and (4) _______
(arrest) no one.

b) Fill in the blanks with appropriate words. (2)


1) He praised us ______ for our dedication.
2) The bank charges interest _____ 12%.
3) The bullet pierced ______ his collarbone.
4) His house is just _______ the street.

c) Join the sentences without using and, but or so. (2)

1) Jerry had been fishing the whole night. He caught nothing.


2) The man was impatient. The mistake happened.

d) Do as directed. (4)

1) He said to them, “Let’s go for a walk.” (Change to Reported


Speech)
a) He asked them that they should go for a walk.
b) He said to them that they should go for a walk.
c) He suggested that they should go for a walk.
d) He suggested that they should walk.

2) You must put coins into the slot machine. (Change to Passive
Voice)
a) Coins must be put in the slot machine by you.
b) Coins must be put into the slot machine by you.
c) Coins must be in the slot machine.
d) Coins have to be put into the slot machine.

3) Savita is one of the most industrious girls in the colony. (Change to


Positive Degree).
a) Very few girls are as industrious as Savita.
b) Very few girls in the colony are as industrious as Savita.
c) Savita is more industrious than most other girls in the colony.
d) Savita is the most industrious girl in the colony.
4) They were renovating the house when it collapsed. (Use:
renovated)

a) While the house was renovated by them, it collapsed.


b) The house being renovated collapsed.
c) The renovated house collapsed.
d) While the house was being renovated by them, it collapsed.

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