NCERT Solutions For Class 8 English - Honeydew

The NCERT Class 8 English Honeydew solutions by Vedantu, is available as a free PDF and is put together by some of the most experienced English teachers in the country. They’ve created the solution book after a lot of research and as per the latest CBSE guidelines.

The NCERT Solution PDF has covered all the chapters and all the chapters are listed separately so that you don’t get confused while learning. You can choose a chapter you wish to learn from the CBSE Class 8 English Honeydew NCERT solution, available as a free download from Vedantu’s official website. 

The book will also help you to understand the deeper meaning of a few lessons in English. This way, you will even be able to enjoy what you learn better. English is a language with which you can do anything, with a lot of creativity. Here are the chapter-wise details of Class 8 English Honeydew NCERT Solution.

Chapter 1: The Best Christmas Present in the World  

A war story against the backdrop of Christmas, a festival marked by the family reunion, exchange of presents, and universal bonhomie. Connie, who is aged 101, receives a present from a stranger whom she mistakes for her long-awaited husband. What is the present that she received the letter or the mistaken identity of the visitor? At the end of the chapter, a practice exercise is provided.

At the end of the chapter, a beautiful poem has been given “The Ant and the Cricket”. In a true sense, it is a fable. Students will learn what is a fable here and the practice exercise provided at the end of the chapter helps the student to test their own knowledge. 

Chapter 2: The Tsunami    

The chapter opens by talking about a natural calamity that caused huge destruction and loss of life and property. At the end of the chapter exercises like fill in the blanks, finding out active and passive voices are given. 

The chapter is followed by a beautiful poem called “Geography” that talks about the author's experience viewing his city from 10000 feet above the ground in the course of an air trip by plane. 

Chapter 3: Glimpses of the Past

In this chapter, students will learn the history of our country through pictures with strips of text for support. Children always love this kind of content as they find it very interesting. At the end of this chapter, students are expected to answer the questions after reading the text. Moreover, practice exercises are provided where students are required to change the speech of the sentence. 

At the end of this chapter, a poem called “Macavity: The Mystery Cat” has been given that talks about the mysterious qualities of a cat. Exercises given at the end contain some descriptive questions, fill in the blanks, true and false.

Chapter 4: Bepin Choudhury’s Lapse of Memory

A Satyajit Ray story with a surprise ending that brings in its wake the much-needed psychological relief to the sophisticated executive beleaguered by a conspiracy, which is a humorous take after all. Apart from the comprehension exercises given at the end of each unit, there are some descriptive questions given at the end of the chapter, fill in the blanks, and some reading and writing exercises. 

After this chapter, comes a poem called The Last Bargain. It is a poem about a person looking for work. And at the last, he was hired by a child. At the end of the poem, students will solve an exercise.

Chapter 5: The Summit Within 

The chapter reveals the experience of Mr. H.P.S. Ahluwalla climbed Mount Everest in 1965. Learn about his experience, challenges, and feelings while he was climbing through this chapter. Exercises provided at the end consist of comprehension, short answer questions, filling in the blanks, matching the columns, and writing the correct noun forms. 

The chapter is followed by a poem called “The School Boy”. In this poem, the schoolboy is not a happy child. What makes him unhappy? He compares himself to a bird that lives in a cage or a plant that withers when it should blossom. Vedantu provides solved answers for all the questions present at the end of the chapter. 

Chapter 6: This is Jody’s Fawn

A story about a child’s emotional preoccupation with the fawn whose mother was killed to save his father’s life. The story highlights a few values - compassion and justice, care and concern for both human and animal life. The exercises provided in the chapter is a set of comprehension, short answer questions, conversion of speech, finding out the transitive and intransitive verb. 

Chapter 7: A Visit to Cambridge 

The story revolves around two great persons who are ‘differently abled’ and are supposed to spend their life in a wheelchair. These two persons share their views on life in a wheelchair. And how people react to disabilities. The exercise given in this chapter is a combination of comprehension and short answer questions, fill in the blanks. Vedantu offers solved answers to these questions, which can be consulted if students find it difficult to answer the questions by themselves.

The chapter is followed by a beautiful poem written by Thomas Hardy who once visited a parish to supervise the restoration of a church. The exercises provided in this section contain words that convey the exact meaning of a phrase.

Chapter 8: A Short Monsoon Diary 

In this chapter, given are some extracts from the diary of a nature lover who enjoys the monsoon in the hills and observes the accompanying changes in the world of flora and fauna. The exercise given in this chapter is a combination of comprehension, fill in the blanks, correct use of verbs, and matching words with the appropriate meaning of sentences.  

Vedantu has covered the poem that follows “On the Grasshopper and Cricket” and students can consult the answer for a reference.   

Chapter 9: The Great Stone Face - I

It is the story of a little boy Earnest who predicts different faces from a hilltop. The chapter comprises comprehension check, working with the text, working with the language, and speaking and writing exercises.

Chapter 10: The Stone Face - II

It is the continuation of chapter 10. The chapter ends up with exercises like comprehension check, working with the text, working with the language, speaking, and writing.

By studying with the NCERT class 8 English Honeydew solutions in a free PDF download, you can also solve previous years' question papers and get examination-ready.

NCERT Solutions for Class 8 English Honeydew Poem 

Chapter 1: The Ant and the Cricket 

This poem is a story about an ant who works hard day and night in the summer season, to store enough food for the winter season. Cricket, on the other hand, makes merry by dancing and singing in the summer season. The cricket ends up starving during the winter season as he did not utilize his time and resources during summer to accumulate sufficient food for the winter season.

Chapter 2: Geography Lessons

The poet of this poem, Zulfikar Ghose, was born in India but after partition, he got settled in Pakistan. Now, he resides in the USA. He finds that the cities are not well-planned when he sees from above in a jet. Then, he goes on to talk about how important water is, for different purposes like agriculture, business, and transport. As the jet moves higher, he reflects and concludes that people have set boundaries among each other and there is a growing hatred among them.

Chapter 3: Macavity - The Mystery Cat

This poem talks about the mysterious qualities of a cat named Macavity. He is mysterious and escapes the crime scene every time. He has broken almost every human law.

Chapter 4: The Last Bargain

This poem talks about a man who is in search of a job. But, during his search, he comes to learn some important lessons. The central theme of this poem is that we do not need money, beauty, or power to attain everlasting happiness. Innocence and freedom can make a person satisfied and happy.

Chapter 5: The School Boy

The poet in this poem is a schoolboy who is not happy. He does not like going to school and is not interested in studying. He feels that he is trapped like a caged bird and his childhood is crumpled. He likes birds, trees, and mornings. He further advises parents to not deprive their kids of the freedom and happiness that they deserve. Our world will be filled with sorrow if we have unhappy children.

Chapter 6: This is Jody’s Fawn

This is a very touching poem about a child named Jody and his consciousness. When a snake bites his father, he kills a doe to save his father by using the heart and liver to draw out the poison. But he is concerned about the fawn left behind. He convinces his parents to search for the fawn and bring it back to their home. He even goes on to say that he will feed the fawn with his own share of milk. Later, they find the fawn in the forest and bring it home to raise it. Jody is happy that the fawn is safe and he can feed him now.

Chapter 7: When I set out for Lyonnesse

The poet of this poem Thomas Hardy talks about the time when he visited a parish church as an architect. He went to supervise the restoration of the church. People noticed two things about him while he was returning, a new glow in his eyes and a crumpled piece of paper in the pocket of his coat.

Chapter 8: On the Grasshopper and the Cricket

The grasshopper and the cricket are used to symbolize the summer and the winter seasons. This poem talks about how the poetry of the song goes like a continuous song from summer to the winter season.

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