Class 8 English Tuition — Karnataka (Second Language)
A year of English for Class 8 on the Karnataka state syllabus, following the KTBS English Second Language reader through both parts — all eight themed units with their prose and poems, and the supplementary reader. Each unit is taught over three short days with the grammar the syllabus sets for it, worked answers, lines to read aloud and a marked sheet. Poems marked for memorisation are flagged where they come.
30 daily sessions of 10–15 minutes. Follows: English Second Language (Revised) — Eighth Standard, Parts I and II (Karnataka Textbook Society, 2026-27).
Enrolment and classes run on LangVR, the BRETS learning platform.
Talk to admissionsBRETS English Academy, Kochi. Call +91 97451 20343.
What is covered
30 modules, taught in this order.
- 0115 minDay 1 · Learn · Education for Life: A Day in the Ashram · Beauty
About 15 minutes. By the end of this unit you can read a description of a school unlike yours, and use determiners.
- 0215 minDay 2 · Practise · Education for Life: A Day in the Ashram · Beauty
About 15 minutes, ending in a sheet marked the moment you submit it.
- 0310 minDay 3 · Recall · Education for Life: A Day in the Ashram · Beauty
About 10 minutes: read aloud, then 0 questions from earlier units.
- 0415 minDay 4 · Learn · Kayakave Kailasa: Sir C. V. Raman · The Little Busy Bee
About 15 minutes. By the end of this unit you can read a life of a scientist, and control the tenses in it.
- 0515 minDay 5 · Practise · Kayakave Kailasa: Sir C. V. Raman · The Little Busy Bee
About 15 minutes, ending in a sheet marked the moment you submit it.
- 0610 minDay 6 · Recall · Kayakave Kailasa: Sir C. V. Raman · The Little Busy Bee
About 10 minutes: read aloud, then 1 questions from earlier units.
- 0715 minDay 7 · Learn · Universal Brotherhood: Jamaican Fragment · No Men are Foreign
About 15 minutes. By the end of this unit you can notice how a small scene carries a large idea, and use the present continuous.
- 0815 minDay 8 · Practise · Universal Brotherhood: Jamaican Fragment · No Men are Foreign
About 15 minutes, ending in a sheet marked the moment you submit it.
- 0910 minDay 9 · Recall · Universal Brotherhood: Jamaican Fragment · No Men are Foreign
About 10 minutes: read aloud, then 1 questions from earlier units.
- 1015 minDay 10 · Learn · Children are Angels: The Boy Who Asked for More · For a Five Year Old
About 15 minutes. By the end of this unit you can read Dickens, and use the past perfect.
- 1115 minDay 11 · Practise · Children are Angels: The Boy Who Asked for More · For a Five Year Old
About 15 minutes, ending in a sheet marked the moment you submit it.
- 1210 minDay 12 · Recall · Children are Angels: The Boy Who Asked for More · For a Five Year Old
About 10 minutes: read aloud, then 2 questions from earlier units.
- 1315 minDay 13 · Learn · Quality of Mercy: The Swan and the Princes · Somebody’s Mother
About 15 minutes. By the end of this unit you can read about mercy, and frame questions correctly.
- 1415 minDay 14 · Practise · Quality of Mercy: The Swan and the Princes · Somebody’s Mother
About 15 minutes, ending in a sheet marked the moment you submit it.
- 1510 minDay 15 · Recall · Quality of Mercy: The Swan and the Princes · Somebody’s Mother
About 10 minutes: read aloud, then 2 questions from earlier units.
- 1615 minDay 16 · Learn · Tireless Life: All the World Her Stage · Coromandel Fishers
About 15 minutes. By the end of this unit you can read a life of work, and build words by joining them.
- 1715 minDay 17 · Practise · Tireless Life: All the World Her Stage · Coromandel Fishers
About 15 minutes, ending in a sheet marked the moment you submit it.
- 1810 minDay 18 · Recall · Tireless Life: All the World Her Stage · Coromandel Fishers
About 10 minutes: read aloud, then 2 questions from earlier units.
- 1915 minDay 19 · Learn · Clothes and Machines: The Emperor’s New Clothes · Machine
About 15 minutes. By the end of this unit you can read a play, and tell homonyms apart.
- 2015 minDay 20 · Practise · Clothes and Machines: The Emperor’s New Clothes · Machine
About 15 minutes, ending in a sheet marked the moment you submit it.
- 2110 minDay 21 · Recall · Clothes and Machines: The Emperor’s New Clothes · Machine
About 10 minutes: read aloud, then 2 questions from earlier units.
- 2215 minDay 22 · Learn · Mother Earth: Luther Burbank · The Axe in the Wood
About 15 minutes. By the end of this unit you can read about growing things, and build opposites with prefixes.
- 2315 minDay 23 · Practise · Mother Earth: Luther Burbank · The Axe in the Wood
About 15 minutes, ending in a sheet marked the moment you submit it.
- 2410 minDay 24 · Recall · Mother Earth: Luther Burbank · The Axe in the Wood
About 10 minutes: read aloud, then 3 questions from earlier units.
- 2515 minDay 25 · Learn · The Story of Dharmavyadha · The Earthquake
About 15 minutes. By the end of this unit you can read on your own, and handle an unseen passage.
- 2615 minDay 26 · Practise · The Story of Dharmavyadha · The Earthquake
About 15 minutes, ending in a sheet marked the moment you submit it.
- 2710 minDay 27 · Recall · The Story of Dharmavyadha · The Earthquake
About 10 minutes: read aloud, then 3 questions from earlier units.
- 2815 minDay 28 · Learn · Everything from Class 8
About 15 minutes. By the end of this unit you can go over the whole year.
- 2915 minDay 29 · Practise · Everything from Class 8
About 15 minutes, ending in a sheet marked the moment you submit it.
- 3010 minDay 30 · Recall · Everything from Class 8
About 10 minutes: read aloud, then 3 questions from earlier units.