English Learning for Grade 8

  Circle the words which are NOT mentioned in the passage. The write the correction on the table.   Statements Correction 1. China is set between the river and West Lake. Huanzu 2. Huanzu has four seasons.   3. The writer lives in China.   4. Huanzu has the best scenery in summer.   5. Some hills spread around West Lake.   6. Huanzu is surrounding by hills and mountainous.    

  Answer these questions based on the text above. Write it in the comment box.   1.     What is the topic of the story above?   2.     What is the main idea of the story?   Paragraph 1: Paragraph 2: 3.     Who lives in Huanzu? 4.     Why Huanzu is beautiful when the sunshine is bright?  

My city, Huanzu, is a famous and beautiful city in China. It is famous all over the world. It is set between the river and West Lake. Several hills spread around West Lake, and some mountains stand by the river. These give the city many beautiful scenes, and so Huanzu is famous for its beauty. Huanzu is beautiful in the spring when the trees bud green and the peach trees flower with their red blossoms. It is beautiful in the fall when the leaves turn yellow and red. And it is beautiful in the winter when the snow gives white clothes to the mountains. So Huanzu is beautiful all year. It is beautiful when the sunshine is bright because the hills make shadows in the lake. It is beautiful when the rain falls and makes the frogs rise from the lake. My city is always beautiful. (Adapted from: http://descriptive-text.blogspot.com/ )

  In groups, reread the text about Whales. Then, read the following statements. Identify them whether they are true or false. Correct the false statements. No. Statements T/F Correction 1. Whales are the smallest animal in the world.     2. Whales are smaller than horses.     3. The weight of a whale is 150 tons.     4. Whales are fish.     5. Whales do not breathe through their lungs.     6. Whales are cold-blooded.     7. Whales breed in the warm water.     8. There is only one kind of whale.     9. The toothed-whales eat plankton.     10. Whales live onl

  Classify these words into noun, verb, or adjective !   Words Meaning Class Large     Animal     Whale     Grow     Long     Born     Live     Swim     Winter     Eat    

  Whales are the largest animals on   earth. Bigger than elephants, they may grow 95 feet long, and weigh 150 tons. A newly born baby blue whale that has, can be 23 feet long and weigh 3 tons. Although whales live in the oceans and swim like fish, they are not fish. They are mammals, like cows and elephants. Unlike fish they bear young alive, not as eggs. Their babies live on their mother’s milk. They breathe through their lungs and hold their breath when they go underwater. If they cannot come to the surface to breathe fresh air, they will drown. whales are warm-blooded. Fish, however, lay eggs, breathe oxygen in the water and are cold-blooded. Whales live in the all-the ocean, in the winter some of them go to warm waters to breed and in the summer most of them go to cold waters to feed. There are two kinds of whales, whales with teeth (toothed whales) and whales without teeth (baleen whales). The toothed whales eat fish and squid, which they can ca