CENTRAL BOARD OF SECONDARY EDUCATION (CBSE)

GRADE 8
PERIODIC TEST 2 SYLLABUS
AY 2021-22

ENGLISH

UNITS SUB-UNITS

Prose – Literature Reader Prose 6- Man on the Train (Reader)

Poem – Literature Reader Poem 5- Mother to Son

Workbook Unit 5 : The Statue of Liberty’s Roots

Past Perfect Continuous Tense

Grammar
Gerunds and Infinitives

Email Writing

Writing Skills Poster making

Message Writing

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 Hindi 2nd Language

UNITS SUB-UNITS

व्याकरण  ( अव्ययीभाव और तत्पुरूष समास) 

 पत्र लेखन अनौपचाररक

लेखन
 अपरित पद्ाांश

कहानी सांचय  प्रततबिंिं

वसांत  सूरदास के पद"

Kannada 2 Language

UNITS SUB-UNITS

ಗದ್ಯ
ಯಶೋಧರೆ

ಪದ್ಯ
ಜೀವನ ದರ್ಶನ

ಸಮಾನಾರ್ಥಕ ಪದಗಳು

ವಿರುದ್ಧಾರ್ಥಕ ಪದಗಳು

ಲಿಂಗಗಳು
ವ್ಯಯ ಕರಣ
ವಚನಗಳು

ವಾಕ್ಯ ಪ್ರಭೇಧಗಳು

ಸಮಾಸಗಳು

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 French 2nd Language

UNITS SUB-UNITS
Unit 6: Des nouvelles de Lyon
Lessons Unit 7: Bon appétit
Unit 8: Des invitations
Passe composé with être

Négative expressions and passe

compose

Impérative sentences (affirmative,

négative and pronominal)
Passe composé of pronominal
verbes
Grammar

Transitive and intransitive verbes

Négation and négative sentences

Pronominal verbes

Imparfait

Writing Skills Letter writing,Invitations

Reading Skills Compréhensions

Kannada 3 Language

UNITS SUB-UNITS

ಪದ್ಯ ಇಳೆಗೆ ಮಳೆ

ಗದ್ಯ ಜೀವನದಿ ಕಾವೇರಿ

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 ಓದಿನ ಹವ್ಯಾಸ

ವ್ಯಯ ಕರಣ
ಕನ್ನಡ ಅಂಕಿಗಳು (೫೧-೧೦೦)

ಬರವಣಿಗೆ ಕೌಶಲ್ಯ
ಗದ್ಯಭಾಗ

Hindi 3 Language

UNITS SUB-UNITS

पानी अमृत है

पद् / गद् प्रकृ तत के रां ग

एक वचन - िंहुवचन

व्याकरण बलग

लेखन कौशल अपरित गद्ाांश

HISTORY

UNITS SUB-UNITS

 How the British saw Education

Chapter 7- Civilising the "Native",

 What Happened to the Local Schools?
Educating the Nation

 The Agenda for a National Education

 Indian Society during the 18 century Working

Chapter 8- Women, Caste and towards Change
Reforms  Caste and Social Reform Different Reform
Movements

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 GEOGRAPHY

UNITS SUB-UNITS

 Introduction.

 Farm system, Types of Farming.

Unit 4. Agriculture
 Major crops.

 Agricultural development.

POLITICAL SCIENCE

UNITS SUB-UNITS

 Role of the Police in investigating a crime

 Role of Public Prosecutor 

Chapter 6: Understanding our
Criminal Justice System
 Role of Judge 

 Fair Trial 

 Meaning of Socially Marginalised

Chapter 7: Understanding
 Adivasis - Meaning, Minorities and Marginilisation
Marginalisation

 Minorities and Marginilisation

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 MATHEMATICS

UNITS SUB-UNITS
· Algebraic expression and representation on a
number line
· Terms, factors and coefficient.

· Monomials, binomials, polynomials.

· Like and unlike terms.

· Addition and subtraction. multiplication of
Unit-9 Algebraic Expressions and expressions
Identities
· Multiplication of a monomial by a monomial

· Multiplication of a monomial by a polynomial

· Multiplication of a polynomial by a polynomial

· Standard identities

· Identities to evaluate.

· Basic 3D shapes

Unit-10 Visualizing solid shapes · Different views of 3D shapes

· Faces, edges and vertices (Eulers Formula)

· Area and perimeter of basic shapes

· Area of a Trapezium

· Area of a special Quadrilaterals

· Area of a General Quadrilateral

Unit-11 Mensuration
· Surface area of cube, cuboid and cylinder

· Volume of cube, cuboid and cylinder

· Capacity
· Word problems based on Volume and surface
area of solids.

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 PHYSICS

UNITS SUB-UNITS

 Charging by rubbing

 Types of charges and their interaction

 Transfer of charge

Unit 4 Chapter 15- Some Natural

 Lightning and Safety
Phenomena

 Earthquakes and Tsunami

 Causes of Earthquakes

 Protection against Earthquakes

CHEMISTRY

UNITS SUB-UNITS

 Combustibility of substances

Unit 4: Chapter 6- Combustion

and Flame  Ignition temperature

 Types of combustion

 Fire extinguishers

 Fire and control measures.

Unit 4: Chapter 6- Combustion  Flame and its structure

and Flame

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  Fuel and its efficiency

 Precautions for using LPG

 Harmful products of combustion

BIOLOGY

UNITS SUB-UNITS

 Discovery of the cell 

 Basic structure of the cell

 Cell number, shape of cells, size of cells

Unit 5: Cell- structure

 Cell structure and function (plant and animal cell)
and function

 Parts of the cell

 Comparisions of plant and animal cell

 Adolescence and puberty, changes at puberty

 Secondary sexual characters

 Role of Hormones in initiating reproductive function.

 Reproductive phase in humans

Unit-6: Reaching the

 How is the sex of the baby determined?
age of Adolescence

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 Hormones other than sex hormones.

 Role of hormones in life cycle of insects and frog.

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 FOUNDATION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

UNITS SUB-UNITS

 What is Python?

 Downloading and Installing Python on Ubuntu

 Working with Python

 Tokens
Unit 5:
Introduction to  Datatypes
Python
 Variables and Assignments

 Input and Output

 Comments in Python

 Some Simple Python Program

• Operators
Unit 6: Advanced
features of • Conditional Statements
Python
• Some more Python Program

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