Brilliant Public School

Seepat Road, Bahatarai, Bilaspur

Mid Term Assessment – 2021-22
Class – VIII
Subject –English
Date: Date: 20th September Monday SET 01 40 Marks

General Instructions:
1. Write in legible handwriting.
2. Write only on registered papers and write the page number clearly.
3. Write your name and Roll No. clearly.
4. Write exact question number in your answer sheet.
5. Maintain neatness marks will be deducted for untidy presentation.

SECTION 1-Writing skills (8 marks)

Q 1. Write on any one topic of the given choices. (5 marks)

1. Your painting has been selected as the best painting in your city Bilaspur. You are thrilled and
over-joyed to hear the news. Write a letter to your best friend revealing the news.
                                                            OR
2. Write a letter to the local newspaper editor asking them to highlight about the shortage of
water supply in your locality as no action has been taken upon even after complaining to the
Nagar Nigam.
                                                             OR
3. You lied to your parents about attending the online classes in the morning and they believe
your words thinking you to be sincere. On account of this, express your feelings in your diary.

Q 2. Write on any one topic from the given choices. (3 marks)

1. Write an email to your cousin about being sincere in life as he is giving a lot of trouble to his
parents.
                                                  OR
2. You are the only one present in the house. Your sister's friend Harsha has called to inform
about the cancellation of their dance class in the evening. You need to go to friend's house for
the homework discussion. Convey the message to your sister hence.

SECTION 2- Grammar and Vocabulary (14 marks)

Q 3. Grammar

1. Read the Command. Change it into a polite request. (2 points)

a. Direct me to the park.

b. Move your car.

2. With the help of the given word, make a conditional sentence of any kind. (1
point)

Word- Dinosaur

3. Convert the sentences into an active voice. (2 points)

a. The city has been destroyed by the cyclone.

b. The auditorium was struck by lightning.

4. Make a sentence with "call off." (1 point)

5. Make a sentence with "on top of the world" (1 point)

6. Change this sentence into a superlative form of degree of adjectives. (1 point)

a. Kayla bought an expensive dress.

7. Punctuate the following. (1 point)

a. david said i want to go the water park

8. Combine the sentences by making use of the participle. (1 point)

a. He read a book. He went off to sleep.

Q 4. Vocabulary

1. Correct the sentence.

The author was holding a press conference tomorrow. (1 point)

2. What is an imagery? (2 points)

3. What is the term used for ‘children from the same parents’ called as? (1 point)
 SECTION 3- Literature (18 marks)

Q 5. Reference To Context

Attempt all the questions of this section. (6 marks)

1. "And no one sees his love. It is only seen by the moon which floats in the sky
and peeps caressingly through the holes in the wall of the deserted barn."

1. Whose 'love' is it being mentioned here? (0.5 points)

2. What was the action that was seen only by the moon? (0.5 points)
3. Describe the nature of Terenty. (2 points)

2. "Dreamed I saw a building with a thousand floors,

A thousand windows and a thousand doors:
Not one of them was ours, my dear, not one of them was ours."

1. Explain the given lines. (2 points)

2. Write down the rhyming scheme of the above mentioned stanza. (1 point)

Q 6. Short Answer Questions

Attempt any 4 questions. (2 x 4 = 8 points)

1. In the poem 'Refugee Blues', why did the consul bang the table?
2. The narrator in ' Elephants Raid The Kitchen' blamed herself for the chaos. Why?
3."The children were impoverished but joyful." Give reasons for your statement. (A Day
in The Country)
4. Why does the poet want to live with animals?
5. Pick a simile from the poem 'Somebody's Mother' and explain it.
6. How did Miss Lucy come to believe that Christmas is the most important time
towards the end of the chapter?

Q 7. Long Answer Questions.

Attempt any one question. (4 points)

1. Give a characterization of the younger brother from the chapter 'My Big Brother'.
 OR
2. Write down your thoughts on the title of the chapter 'Can We Change This?'