Grade 8 English – United States
Grade 8 English
This is the FutureSchool Grade 8 English course for students in the United States. It is matched to the Common Core State Standards, and to the state standards where a state sets its own. The course holds 60 lessons. Each lesson has a short video, worked examples and a printable worksheet. Lessons cover What’s Homestay?, Setting off, Here we are! and A new home, and more. Your child takes an assessment first, and the course then builds a study plan that names the lessons to work on. A lesson can be repeated as often as your child wants.
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| # | TOPIC | TITLE | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What’s Homestay? | Want to improve your English? | ||
| Objective: Learn how to elicit information from an advertisement and text. | ||||
| 2 | What’s Homestay? | Homestay application | ||
| Objective: Learn how to fill in an application form. | ||||
| 3 | Setting off | Destination ‘Downunder’ | ||
| Objective: Expand vocabulary, read and understand a travel brochure. | ||||
| 4 | Setting off | A letter to the Carters Full lesson available | ||
| Objective: Read and understand an informal letter of introduction. | ||||
| 5 | Here we are! | Who are the Carters? | ||
| Objective: Elicit information from a letter about people’s physical appearance. | ||||
| 6 | Here we are! | My new family | ||
| Objective: Learn how to elicit information about personality traits from the text. | ||||
| 7 | A new home | This is our house. | ||
| Objective: Read a description of a house using prepositions of location. | ||||
| 8 | A new home | Our room! | ||
| Objective: Read a text using prepositions of location. | ||||
| 9 | Let’s hit the beach! | Meet Tim. He’s a lifesaver. | ||
| Objective: Elicit information to answer questions from the text. Identify strong versus mild obligation. | ||||
| 10 | Let’s hit the beach! | Be safe at the beach this summer! | ||
| Objective: Read and understand a safety pamphlet for Australian beaches. Identify imperatives in the reading. | ||||
| 11 | Amazing Aussie animals | Marsupials | ||
| Objective: Identify factual information within a text, answer questions and recognize a topic sentence. | ||||
| 12 | Amazing Aussie animals | When we were watching … | ||
| Objective: Read postcards about Australian animals. Identify past and present continuous. | ||||
| 13 | What do you like to do? | Would you like to join? | ||
| Objective: Select factual information from a text to answer questions. Identify the different ways to use like, like to and would like to. | ||||
| 14 | What do you like to do? | How often do you …? | ||
| Objective: Use adverbs of frequency and calculate how often activities occur. | ||||
| 15 | BBQ Party! | A famous Aussie dessert | ||
| Objective: Answer comprehension questions and identify expressions of quantity. | ||||
| 16 | BBQ Party! | A new ‘barbie’! | ||
| Objective: Read a set of instructions and complete activities based on comprehension and sequencing details. | ||||
| 17 | Big day out! | The big three Full lesson available | ||
| Objective: Answer comprehension questions and identify first and second conditionals. | ||||
| 18 | Big day out! | The big plan | ||
| Objective: Identify the different uses of ‘going to’. Use different ways of expressing time. | ||||
| 19 | Thanks and goodbye | My Australian experience | ||
| Objective: Read a text and answer comprehension questions. Identify expressions about ‘feelings’. | ||||
| 20 | Thanks and goodbye | Thank you letter | ||
| Objective: Recognize time clauses and identify ‘feeling’ adjectives. | ||||
| 21 | Sentences | The Sentence | ||
| Objective: To identify and use complete sentences. | ||||
| 22 | Punctuation | Sentence Endings | ||
| Objective: To use full-stops, question marks, exclamation marks and capital letters correctly. | ||||
| 23 | Capitalization | Capital Letters 2 | ||
| Objective: To use capital letters correctly: in titles and letters. | ||||
| 24 | Pronouns | Pronouns 2 | ||
| Objective: To recognize and use personal, possessive and relative pronouns. | ||||
| 25 | Parts of Speech Part a | Prepositions | ||
| Objective: To identify and use prepositions correctly. | ||||
| 26 | Punctuation Skills Part b | Quotation Marks | ||
| Objective: To use quotation marks for direct speech. | ||||
| 27 | Contractions | Contractions | ||
| Objective: To identify and use contractions. | ||||
| 28 | Common Errors | Common Errors in writing | ||
| Objective: To identify and eliminate common errors. | ||||
| 29 | Commas 2 | Commas 2 | ||
| Objective: To use commas: to separate places, to separate clauses within sentences, and when using direct speech. | ||||
| 30 | Conjunctions – Sentences | Conjunctions – Sentences | ||
| Objective: To use conjunctions to increase the variety of sentence structure in written expression. | ||||
| 31 | Phrases | Phrases | ||
| Objective: To identify and use phrases including adjectival and adverbial phrases. | ||||
| 32 | Clauses | Clauses | ||
| Objective: To identify and use clauses including adjectival, adverbial and noun clauses. | ||||
| 33 | Subject-Verb Agreement | Subject-Verb Agreement | ||
| Objective: To identify and use correct tense, number and person in forming verbs. | ||||
| 34 | Verb tense – Compound | Verb tense – Compound | ||
| Objective: To identify and use ‘to be’ and ‘to have’ with the appropriate participle of the main verb. | ||||
| 35 | Verbs – Active and Passive voice | Verbs – Active and Passive voice | ||
| Objective: To identify and use active and passive voice. | ||||
| 36 | Apostrophe – Possession | Apostrophe – Possession | ||
| Objective: To use the apostrophe of possession correctly. | ||||
| 37 | Similes and Metaphors | Similes and Metaphors | ||
| Objective: To identify and use similes and metaphors. | ||||
| 38 | Figurative Language | Onomatopoeia, Assonance and Alliteration | ||
| Objective: To identify, and make use of, onomatopoeia, assonance, and alliteration. | ||||
| 39 | Common Errors | Common Errors in verb usage, spelling and punctuation | ||
| Objective: To identify and eliminate common errors. | ||||
| 40 | Colons and Semi-Colons | Colons and Semi-Colons | ||
| Objective: To use colons and semi-colons correctly. | ||||
| 41 | Sentence Structure Part a | Subject and Predicate | ||
| Objective: To identify the subject and predicate within a sentence and to understand they are the two main parts of a sentence. | ||||
| 42 | Regular and Irregular Verbs | Regular and Irregular Verbs | ||
| Objective: To identify and use regular and irregular verbs in the present and past tense. | ||||
| 43 | Verbs – Infinitives | Verbs – Infinitives | ||
| Objective: To identify and use the infinitive form of the verb. | ||||
| 44 | Modal Verbs | Modal Verbs | ||
| Objective: To identify and use modal verbs with the appropriate form of the main verb. | ||||
| 45 | Participles – as Verbs and Adjectives | Participles – as Verbs and Adjectives | ||
| Objective: To identify and use participles as verbs or adjectives as indicators of continuing action. | ||||
| 46 | Gerunds | Gerunds | ||
| Objective: To identify and use gerunds. | ||||
| 47 | Interjections | Interjections | ||
| Objective: To identify and use interjections correctly. | ||||
| 48 | Plurals | Plurals 4 – Unusual | ||
| Objective: To use nouns whose singular and plural forms are the same. To use compound noun plurals. | ||||
| 49 | Sentence Improvement | Sentence Improvement | ||
| Objective: To construct expressive sentences by using adjectives, adverbs, phrases and clauses. | ||||
| 50 | Punctuation | Punctuation – Various | ||
| Objective: To use hyphens, dashes, apostrophes, quotation marks, parentheses and brackets correctly. | ||||
| 51 | Mass and Count Nouns | Determiners | ||
| Objective: To identify and use determiners correctly with mass and count nouns. | ||||
| 52 | Transitive and Intransitive Verbs | Transitive and Intransitive Verbs | ||
| Objective: To identify and use transitive and intransitive verbs. | ||||
| 53 | Case – Nouns and Pronouns | Case – Nouns, Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives | ||
| Objective: To identify the case of nouns and pronouns. | ||||
| 54 | Plurals of Foreign Nouns | Plurals 5 – Foreign | ||
| Objective: To form plurals of foreign nouns. | ||||
| 55 | Variety of Expression | Sentence Construction | ||
| Objective: To construct expressive and precise sentences to improve meaning. | ||||
| 56 | Figurative Language | Symbolism and Personification | ||
| Objective: To identify, and make use of, symbolism and personification. | ||||
| 57 | Review of Figures of Speech | Review of Figures of Speech | ||
| Objective: To identify multiple uses of figures of speech within writing. | ||||
| 58 | Spelling Skills | Word Usage | ||
| Objective: To correctly choose words with similar spelling, sound and meaning. | ||||
| 59 | Essay Writing 1 | Essay Writing 1 | ||
| Objective: To develop and write essays (expositions). | ||||
| 60 | Essay Writing 2 | Essay Writing 2 | ||
| Objective: To develop and write essays. | ||||
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