Half Yearly Exam

Class: Eight (Bangla Medium) For Seen Comprehension 1 and 2 (From text book): Unit -1 to Unit-6
Session: 2025 Unseen passage: Class standard
Matching Table: Class standard (Unseen)
Re-arranging: Class standard (Unseen)
Answering questions from poem in English for Today: Unit -1 to Unit-6
Syllabus Paragraph:
i. Our National Flag ii. A Book Fair You Have Visited Recently
English First Paper: Class Eight iii. An Ideal Student iv. Afforestation
v. Load Shedding
Selected Book : English for Today Class -8 (NCTB)
Completing Story:

Class Test of Half Yearly Exam i. Rafi is a worker of a big factory in Dhaka. There are more than 500 workers in the
factory. One day while he was working a loud sound was heard. Fire! Fire! Help!
Text Book Unit-1, 2 & 3 Help! .,..
ii. There was an old farmer. He had four sons. They were all grown up. (Unity is
strength)……
Paragraph i. Our National Flag iii. One day Ayat, a school boy, was going to school on foot. While walking he found
ii. A Book Fair You Have Visited Recently a bundle of money on his way to school. He took the bundle of money and went to
iii. Afforestation his class teacher…..
iv. It was long since Robert Bruce had been the king of Scotland.(Failure is the pillar
of success)…….
Question Pattern and Marks Distribution v. Once the house of a rich man was invested with rats. ……..
Short Dialogues
Ques. Question Pattern Marks i. Between two friends about aim in life / hobbies.
No.
ii. Between two friends about the importance of tree plantation.
Seen Comprehension-2 ( Question no. 1 & 2) iii. Dialogue between you and a doctor on your health problem.
Fill in the blanks:
iv. Between two friends on how to develop skills in English language.
1 1×5=5
v. A dialogue between a customer and a bookseller on buying books.
2 Vocabulary 1×5=5
3 Answering questions from poem in English for 2×5=10 Class Test of Annual Exam
Today (Unit 1, 2 & 3)
4 Paragraph writing (No Option) 10 Text Book Unit-7, 8 & 9
Total 30 Matching Class standard
Dialogue Class Standard
Paragraph i. Importance of Learning English
ii. Traffic Jam
iii. A Winter Morning
 Annual Exam

Question Pattern and Marks Distribution For Seen Comprehension 1 and 2 (From text book): Unit -7 to Unit-11
Unseen passage: Class standard
Ques. No. Question Pattern Marks Matching Table: Class standard (Unseen)
1 Seen Comprehension-1 (question no. 1 Re-arranging: Class standard (Unseen)
and 2): Answering questions from poem in English for Today: Unit -7 to Unit-11
MCQ
1×5=5
Paragraph:
2 Answering questions 2×5=10 1. Importance of Learning English
2. Traffic Jam
Matching 1×5=5
3. A Winter Morning
Paragraph / Dialogue 10 4. Your school Magazine
Total 30 5. Environment Pollution

Completing Story:
1. In the last summer vacation I was staying at my village home. Some of my friends
proposed that we should go on a journey by boat. We fixed a date and destination. We
hired a boat…..
2. Samiha was a student of Class 10. Every morning she went to school and came back in
the afternoon. One day after coming back home, to her utter surprise, she found a lock
hanging on the door…..

3. From the very boyhood Bayazid Bostami was very helpful to his mother.( Devotion to
mother)
4. Sheikh Shadi was a great poet in Iran. He used to lead a very simple life. ….
5. Once a boy named Rakib was coming home from school on foot. He found a money bag
on the way. …. …. …

Dialogue Writing:
i. Between you and your friend about the preparation of annual exam.
ii. Between two friends about the bad effect of smoking.
iii. Between a manager of a bank and you about the opening of a bank account.
iv.Between two friends on the advantage and disadvantage of city life/ village life.
v.Between two friends about favourite pastime.
Questions Pattern and Marks Distribution for Half Yearly & Annual Exam
Skills/ Marks Test items in detail Marks
Areas
Part A- Reading Test-70
Seen passage-01 (Ques. 1-2)
1. MCQ 1×7=7
2. Answering questions 2×5=10
Seen passage-02 (Ques. 3 - 4)
1×5=5
3. Gap filling
1×5=5
4. Vocabulary (synonyms or antonyms)
Unseen passage (Ques. 5 -7 )
Part A
70 5. Information Transfer
Reading 1×5=5
6.True/ False
7. Writing summary 1×5=5
8. Matching 1×10=10
9. Rearranging 1×5=5
1×8=8
10. Answering questions from poem in
2×5=10
English for Today

Part B- Writing Test-30

9. Completing a story 10
Part B
30 11. Writing paragraph in 150 words 10
Writing
12. Writing dialogue 10
Total 100
English Second Paper- Class Eight
Selected Book: English Grammar and Composition by NCTB 1. Parts of speech
2. Use of articles
3. Use of preposition
Class Test of Half Yearly Exam
4. Substitution table
5. Right forms of verb
Grammatical items to be learnt: 6. Narration ( Individual sentences)
Parts of Speech, Articles, Preposition, Substitution Table, Changing Sentences 7. Sentences (According to meaning)
(Affirmative, Negative, Assertive, Imperative, Exclamatory & Voice), Punctuation 8. Changing sentence (Affirmative, Negative, Assertive, Interrogative, Imperative ,
and Capitalization Exclamatory, Voice Change)
9. Punctuation and capitalization
Letters/ Email :

i.Write an email your friend describing the prize giving ceremony of your school.
ii. Write an email to your younger brother advising him to be sincere and attentive to Part B Composition:
his study
iii.An application to the Principal for setting up a canteen . Writing Letter/Email (formal and informal):
iv.An application to the Principal for a full free studentship. Informal letter/ email:
i.Write a letter/email to your friend about the importance of early rising.
ii.Write a letter/ email to your friend describing him how y ou have spent the
Question Pattern and Marks Distribution Ramadan vacation.
Formal letter/email:
Ques. No. Question Pattern Marks i. Write an application or email to the principal for setting up an English language
club.
1 Fill in the gaps with/ without clues (Parts 1×5=5
ii. Write an application or email to the principal for leave of absence.
of Speech, Articles and Preposition)
Composition:
2 Substitution table 1×5=5 1. The Game You Like Most 2. Future plan of your life 3. Computer
3 Changing Sentences 1×5=5 4. Duties of a student
4 Capitalization and punctuation 1×5=5
5 Writing letter/ email (No option) 10
Class Test of Annual Exam
Total 30
Grammatical items to be learnt:
Fill in the gaps (Parts of speech, Articles, preposition), substitution
table, narration (individual sentences), Changing sentence (Affirmative,
Negative, Assertive, Interrogative, Imperative , Exclamatory, Voice Change and
Half Yearly Examination-2025 Degrees of Comparison)
Part A Grammar:
Grammatical items Composition:
1.Wonders of Modern Science 2. Population Problem in Bangladesh 3.An Interesting
Football Match You Witnessed.
 iii. Write an application / email to the principal for permission to arrange a science
Question Pattern and Marks Distribution fair at your school campus.

Ques. No. Question Pattern Marks Composition:

1 Fill in the gaps with/ without clues ( parts of .50×10=5 1. Wonders of Modern Science 2. Population Problem in Bangladesh
speech, articles and preposition) 3.An Interesting Football Match You Witnessed. 4. Uses and Abuses
of Mobile Phone 5. Discipline
2 Substitution table 1×5=5
3 Narration (individual sentences) 1×5=5
4 Changing sentences 1×5=5
3. Writing composition (No option) 10 Questions Pattern and Marks Distribution for Half Yearly & Annual Exam
Total 30 Skills/ Marks Test items in detail Marks
Areas
Part A:Grammar-30
Annual Examination-2025
1. Fill in the gaps with/ without clues ( parts .50×10=5
Part A Grammar:
of speech, articles prepositions)
Grammatical items 1×5=5
2. Substitution table
3. Right form of verbs
1. Parts of speech 1×5=5
Part A 4. Narration (Individual sentences/ passage
2. Use of articles 5
Gramma 30 Narration )
3. Use of preposition
4. Substitution table r 5. Changing sentences 1×5=5
5. Right forms of verb 6. Capitalization and Punctuation 5
6. Passage Narration
7. Sentences (According to meaning)
8. Changing sentence (Affirmative, Negative, Assertive, Interrogative, Imperative ,
Exclamatory, Voice Change and Degrees of comparison)
9. Punctuation and capitalization Part B- Writing Test-20
7. Letter/ Email ( Formal/Informal) 08
Part B
20 11. Writing a composition in 250 words 12
Writing
Part B Composition:
Total 50
Writing Letter/Email (formal and informal):
Informal letter/ email:
i. Write a letter/email to your friend thanking him/her for sending you a
nice birthday gift.
ii. Write a letter/ email to your friend describing about the bad effect of
smoking.
iii. Write a letter/email of sympathy to your sick friend in hospital.
Formal letter/email:
i. Write an application/email to the principal for setting up a multimedia in your
classroom.
ii. Write an application /email to the principal for morning school.