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Class 8 English (Poorvi)

CALP’s Class 8 English course follows Poorvi, NCERT’s new English book, chapter by chapter: read-along videos, chapter notes with Hindi meanings, and daily listening, speaking, grammar and writing practice with instant feedback.

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What you'll learn

  • Read and recite every Poorvi story and poem with clear sounds and expression
  • Understand each chapter and its new words, with Hindi support
  • Use the book’s grammar in your own sentences, with feedback on every try
  • Listen to talks and conversations and follow the speaker’s view and reasons
  • Discuss ideas and argue a point politely, with reasons
  • Write essays, letters, articles and stories of 100–150 words

About this course

CALP’s Class 8 English course follows Poorvi, NCERT’s new English book, chapter by chapter: read-along videos, chapter notes with Hindi meanings, and daily listening, speaking, grammar and writing practice with instant feedback.

Course curriculum

18 sections · 204 lessons
Start here
How the course works, a quick microphone check, and your first English chat.
3 lessons
  • ReadingPreview
  • ShadowingPreview
  • ConversationPreview
Chapter 1: The Wit that Won Hearts
How Tenali Rama used a clever joke about paddy seeds to end a quarrel between King Krishnadeva Raya and his queen.
13 lessons
  • ReadingPreview
  • ShadowingPreview
  • ListeningPreview
  • ShadowingPreview
  • DictationPreview
  • Practice setPreview
  • Word gamesPreview
  • Teach the AIPreview
  • Write a linePreview
  • ConversationPreview
  • Speak about itPreview
  • Work with a teammatePreview
  • Feedback from a mentorPreview
Chapter 2: A Concrete Example
A funny poem about Mrs.
13 lessons
  • ReadingChapter notes: A Concrete Example
  • ShadowingSay the poem: A Concrete Example
  • ListeningListen: the Rock Garden of Chandigarh
  • DictationListen and write: garden words and speech marks
  • Practice setPractise: understand the poem and its devices
  • Practice setPractise: synonyms, instruments and new words
  • Word gamesPlay with words: Mrs. Jones' garden
  • Teach the AITeach Sam: synonyms that fit
  • Write a lineWrite a line: the poem, puns and apologies
  • ConversationSay sorry: your sister's flower craft
  • Role playMake it right with Mrs. Jones
  • Speak about itTalk about it: sorry, gardens and points of view
  • Feedback from a mentorWrite a notice: the new Herb Garden
Chapter 3: Wisdom Paves the Way
A play about four young men who describe a lost camel they have never seen, just by reading clues on the road.
13 lessons
  • ReadingChapter notes: Wisdom Paves the Way
  • ShadowingSay it: key lines from the play
  • ShadowingSay it: stress and falling tone
  • ListeningListen: why we love witty characters
  • DictationListen and write: play words and modal verbs
  • Practice setPractise: noun forms, expressions and two-meaning words
  • Practice setPractise: modal verbs and what they mean
  • Word gamesPlay with words: clues on the road to Ujjain
  • Teach the AITeach Sam: the verb after a modal
  • Speak about itTalk about it: knowledge, wisdom and advice
  • Role playCalm the angry merchant
  • Write a lineWrite a line: reasons and modal verbs
  • Feedback from a mentorWrite a letter of complaint
Chapter 4: A Tale of Valour: Major Somnath Sharma and the Battle of Badgam
The true story of Major Somnath Sharma, who led 90 soldiers against about 500 invaders at Badgam in 1947 and won India's first Param Vir Chakra.
13 lessons
  • ReadingChapter notes: A Tale of Valour: Major Somnath Sharma and the Battle of Badgam
  • ShadowingSay it: key lines from the Battle of Badgam
  • ListeningListen: the Param Vir Chakra
  • DictationListen and write: valour words and verbs that agree
  • Practice setPractise: events, expressions and army words
  • Practice setPractise: over- verbs, c or s, and verbs that agree
  • Word gamesPlay with words: a tale of valour
  • Teach the AITeach Sam: verbs that agree
  • Write a lineWrite a line: reasons, new words and corrections
  • ConversationTalk it through: why his story still inspires
  • Speak about itSpeak up: how I can serve my nation
  • Role playRole play: call the memorial office
  • Feedback from a mentorWrite a letter of enquiry
Chapter 5: Somebody's Mother
A poem by Mary Dow Brine about a schoolboy who stops to help a frightened old woman cross a snowy street.
13 lessons
  • ReadingChapter notes: Somebody's Mother
  • ShadowingSay the poem: Somebody's Mother
  • ListeningListen: a young hero at the river
  • ShadowingSay it: the three -ed sounds
  • DictationListen and write: poem words and lest
  • Practice setPractise: the story and craft of the poem
  • Practice setPractise: words, antonyms and hand idioms
  • Word gamesPlay with words: the snowy street
  • Teach the AITeach Sam: how to use lest
  • Write a lineWrite a line: lest, reasons and corrections
  • Speak about itTalk about it: a time you helped someone
  • Work with a teammateArgue it out: were the other boys wrong?
  • Feedback from a mentorWrite a diary entry: the day I helped
Chapter 6: Verghese Kurien: I Too Had a Dream
A letter from Dr Verghese Kurien to his grandson Siddharth about choices, integrity and serving others.
13 lessons
  • ReadingChapter notes: Verghese Kurien: I Too Had a Dream
  • ShadowingSay it: key lines from the letter
  • ListeningListen: Evelyn Glennie feels the music
  • ShadowingSay it: PREsent or preSENT?
  • ShadowingSay it: -sure sounds and pauses
  • DictationListen and write: letter words, its and it's, dashes
  • Practice setPractise: facts, synonyms, expressions and dashes
  • Word gamesPlay with words: the letter's word chain
  • Teach the AITeach Sam: its or it's?
  • Write a lineWrite a line: phrases, order and your view
  • ConversationTalk about it: letters or phone calls?
  • Speak about itSpeak your mind: values and the common good
  • Feedback from a mentorWrite a letter to your grandparents
Chapter 7: The Case of the Fifth Word
Boy detective Encyclopedia Brown cracks a dying thief's four-word code and finds a million dollars of stolen jewellery.
13 lessons
  • ReadingChapter notes: The Case of the Fifth Word
  • ShadowingSay it: key lines from the mystery
  • ShadowingSay it right: tricky words
  • ListeningListen: how to become a better observer
  • DictationListen and write: mystery words and reported questions
  • Practice setPractise: phrasal verbs and sound-alike words
  • Practice setPractise: linking words, facts and reported questions
  • Word gamesPlay with words: crack the code
  • Teach the AITeach Sam: reporting questions
  • Write a lineWrite a line: report the questions
  • ConversationGroup talk: what makes a mystery story fun?
  • Speak about itTalk about it: detectives and clues
  • Feedback from a mentorWrite a report: Inter-school Art Exhibition
Chapter 8: The Magic Brush of Dreams
A story poem about Gopi, a village girl whose magic paintbrush helps the poor until a greedy Zamindar wants it for himself.
13 lessons
  • ReadingChapter notes: The Magic Brush of Dreams
  • ShadowingSay the poem: The Magic Brush of Dreams
  • ShadowingSay it: commands that fall, feelings that jump
  • ListeningListen: five magical wishes
  • DictationListen and write: poem words and feeling words
  • Practice setPractise: the story, the poem and its words
  • Word gamesPlay with words: Gopi's crossword and riddles
  • Teach the AITeach Sam: feeling words like Phew! and Oops!
  • ConversationAsk your teacher politely: a picnic and a sports period
  • Speak about itTalk about it: wishes and requests
  • Role playStand up to the Zamindar
  • Write a lineWrite a line: feelings, meanings and reasons
  • Feedback from a mentorWrite an imaginative essay
Chapter 9: Spectacular Wonders
A tour of seven natural wonders of India, from living root bridges to a beach where the sea disappears.
13 lessons
  • ReadingChapter notes: Spectacular Wonders
  • ShadowingSay it: key lines about India's wonders
  • ListeningListen: the Rainbow Mountain
  • DictationListen and write: wonder words, gerunds and participles
  • Practice setPractise: wonder words, binomials and places
  • Practice setPractise: participles and gerunds
  • Word gamesPlay with words: wonders of India
  • Teach the AITeach Sam: gerunds and participles
  • Write a lineWrite a line: join sentences and use binomials
  • ConversationHelp a friend choose a wonder to visit
  • Speak about itTalk about it: wonders near and far
  • Work with a teammateArgue it out: natural or man-made wonders?
  • Feedback from a mentorWrite a descriptive essay
Check yourself: Units 1 to 3
Look back at the first nine chapters, recite lines from three poems, and chat about what you have read.
3 lessons
  • CoachingLook back: Units 1 to 3
  • ShadowingShowcase: recite three poems
  • ConversationChat about Units 1 to 3
Chapter 10: The Cherry Tree
Ruskin Bond's story of a boy in Mussoorie who plants a cherry seed and watches it survive goats, scythes and snow to become a tree.
13 lessons
  • ReadingChapter notes: The Cherry Tree
  • ShadowingSay it: key lines from The Cherry Tree
  • ListeningListen: a mother and son talk about saving trees
  • DictationListen and write: story words and past tenses
  • Practice setPractise: how the cherry tree grew
  • Practice setPractise: odd words, tastes, opposites and beats
  • Word gamesPlay with words: Rakesh's garden
  • Practice setPractise: past tenses and the article 'Trees–Our Lifeline'
  • Write a lineWrite a line: punctuation, tenses and taste words
  • ConversationTalk with Grandfather under the cherry tree
  • Speak about itTalk about it: trees and Van Mahotsav
  • Work with a teammateArgue it out: is our own tree more special?
  • Feedback from a mentorWrite an article for the school magazine
Chapter 11: Harvest Hymn
Sarojini Naidu's hymn in which farmers thank the Sun, the rain, the Earth and the Creator for a good harvest.
13 lessons
  • ReadingChapter notes: Harvest Hymn
  • ShadowingSay the poem: Harvest Hymn
  • ShadowingSay it: silent letters in hymn and climb
  • ListeningListen: how rice is grown
  • DictationListen and write: hymn words and old words
  • Practice setPractise: old words, new words and farm tools
  • Practice setPractise: the poem's ideas and devices
  • Word gamesPlay with words: the harvest hymn
  • Teach the AITeach Sam: thou, thee, thy and thine
  • Write a lineWrite a line: modern English and slogans
  • ConversationTalk about harvest festivals
  • Speak about itTalk about it: a harvest dish and a hymn
  • Feedback from a mentorWrite a thank-you note for farmers
Chapter 12: Waiting for the Rain
Velu, a hard-working farmer, waits for rain that does not come, until an old woman tells him the land needs rest too.
13 lessons
  • ReadingChapter notes: Waiting for the Rain
  • ShadowingSay it: key lines from the story
  • ListeningListen: today's weather forecast
  • DictationListen and write: weather words and homophones
  • Practice setPractise: who said it, homophones and word partners
  • Practice setPractise: present tenses and determiners
  • Word gamesPlay with words: rain and farming
  • Teach the AITeach Sam: few or a few, little or a little
  • Speak about itTalk about it: waiting for the rain
  • ConversationRole-play: the Earth meets the Rain
  • Work with a teammateArgue it out: should the land rest?
  • Write a lineWrite a line: reasons from the story
  • Feedback from a mentorWrite a letter to your ward Councillor
Chapter 13: Feathered Friend
Arthur C.
13 lessons
  • ReadingChapter notes: Feathered Friend
  • ShadowingSay it: key lines from Feathered Friend
  • ListeningListen: Monika and Toby the Martian
  • DictationListen and write: story words and future time
  • Practice setPractise: new words, matching adjectives and merged words
  • Practice setPractise: talking about the future
  • Word gamesPlay with words: life on the space station
  • Teach the AITeach Sam: many ways to talk about the future
  • Write a lineWrite a line: reasons, new words and the future
  • ConversationTalk it through: ask for advice, give advice
  • Speak about itSpeak up: feathered friends and furry friends
  • Work with a teammateDebate: should pets live on space stations?
  • Feedback from a mentorWrite an article: The Importance of Internet
Chapter 14: Magnifying Glass
Walter de la Mare's poem about the wonders a small round glass reveals, from chalk and moss to a spider at work.
13 lessons
  • ReadingChapter notes: Magnifying Glass
  • ShadowingSay the poem: Magnifying Glass
  • ListeningListen: India's lesser-known inventions
  • Sound pairsHear the difference: /f/ and /v/
  • DictationListen and write: words from the poem
  • Practice setPractise: understand the poem and its devices
  • Practice setPractise: new words, collective nouns and 'eye' idioms
  • Word gamesPlay with words: through the glass
  • Teach the AITeach Sam: collective nouns
  • Write a lineWrite a line: reasons, idioms and wonder words
  • Speak about itSpeak: space, inventions and your favourite lines
  • Work with a teammateArgue it out: small wonders or space?
  • Feedback from a mentorWrite a conversation: the Science Fair model
Chapter 15: Bibha Chowdhuri: The Beam of Light that Lit the Path for Women in Indian Science
The life of Bibha Chowdhuri, India's first woman physicist, and the women scientists of ISRO who follow her path.
13 lessons
  • ReadingChapter notes: Bibha Chowdhuri: The Beam of Light that Lit the Path for Women in Indian Science
  • ShadowingSay it: key lines about Bibha Chowdhuri
  • ListeningListen: a podcast on technology for good
  • DictationListen and write: science words and passive sentences
  • Practice setPractise: Bibha's life in order, fact or opinion
  • Practice setPractise: opposites, one-word substitutes and suffixes
  • Practice setPractise: the passive voice in science news
  • Word gamesPlay with words: beam of light
  • Teach the AITeach Sam: making the passive
  • Write a lineWrite a line: answers and passive sentences
  • ConversationTalk it through: women who lit the path
  • Speak about itSpeak up: mobile phones, beneficial or harmful?
  • Feedback from a mentorWrite a report for the school magazine
Check yourself: the whole year
Look back at the year, recite lines from two poems, and have a final chat.
3 lessons
  • CoachingLook back: my year in English
  • ShadowingShowcase: recite two poems
  • ConversationMy English year: a final chat

What you need

  • A phone, tablet or computer with a microphone
  • The Poorvi textbook (optional but helpful)
  • 20 minutes a day

Who this is for

Children in Class 8 using NCERT’s Poorvi book, and Class 7 children getting ready for it.

Questions people ask

Which book does it follow?
Poorvi, NCERT’s new English book for Class 8, all fifteen chapters in the order of the book.
Is everything ready?
Every chapter’s notes and practice activities are ready now. The read-along videos are being added chapter by chapter, and you get each one as soon as it’s added, at no extra cost.
Is it live classes or recorded?
Recorded lessons with practice, so your child can learn at any time and repeat a chapter as often as needed.
What does my child need?
A phone, tablet or computer with a microphone, and 20 minutes a day. Headphones help in the listening and speaking activities.
My own English is weak. Can I still help?
Yes. The chapter notes explain new words in Hindi too, and each activity tells your child what to do. Your time and attention matter more than your English.
How long can we use it?
Twelve months from the day you join: the whole school year, with time to revise before exams.
Can we try it first?
Yes. “Start here” and the first chapter’s notes and videos are free to open on the course page.