CBSE schools
from this session (April 2018 onwards) in class 9. Those schools offering
English Communicative till last session will now offer English Language and
literature from session 2018-19.
Class 9th syllabus of English Language and
literature has some modifications this year. The novels Guliver’s Travel and
Three men in a boat have been discontinued this year. Now the 8 mark long
question will be asked from the text book. There will be no question from
novels this year onwards.
New Poem Added
to the syllabus
Last year, 9
poems were part of syllabus but this year CBSE has added one new poem to class
9 English Language and literature syllabus. Now students have to study 10
poems. The new poem added is A Slumber did My Spirit Seal. Thus
total number of chapters this year are 11 prose from Beehive, 10
poems from NCERT text book Beehive and 10 chapters from
NCERT text book Moments.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE (Code No. 184)
SYLLABUS CLASS – IX (2018-19)
SECTION – WISE WEIGHTAGE
SYLLABUS CLASS – IX (2018-19)
SECTION – WISE WEIGHTAGE
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Total Weightage 80 Marks
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Section A Reading Skills 20 Marks
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Section B Writing Skills with Grammar 30 Marks
·
Section C Literature Textbook and Supplementary
Reading Text 30 Marks
The annual examination will be of 80 marks, with a
duration of three hours.
SECTION A:
READING
There will be 20 Marks to be covered
in 50 Periods. This section will have two reading passages.
·
Q.1: A Factual passage 300-350 words with eight
Very Short Answer type Questions. 8 marks
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Q. 2: A Discursive passage of 350-400 words with
four Short Answer type Questions to test inference, evaluation and
analysis with four Very Short Answer Questions to test vocabulary. 12
marks
SECTION B:
WRITING AND GRAMMAR
There will be 30 Marks to be covered
in 60 Periods
·
Q. 3: Writing an Article/ Descriptive
Paragraph( person/ place/ event/diary entry) in about 100-150 words based
on visual or verbal
cue/s. The questions will be thematically based on the prescribed books. 8 marks
cue/s. The questions will be thematically based on the prescribed books. 8 marks
·
Q. 4: Writing a short story based on a given
outline or cue/s in about 150 – 200 words. 10
marks
The Grammar syllabus will include the following
areas in class IX :
1. Tenses
2. Modals
3. Use of passive voice
4. Subject – verb concord
5. Reporting Commands and requests, Statements, Questions
6. Clauses: (i) Noun clauses (ii) Adverb clauses of condition and time (iii) Relative clauses
7. Determiners
8. Prepositions
The above items may be tested through test types(grammar in context) as given below:
1. Tenses
2. Modals
3. Use of passive voice
4. Subject – verb concord
5. Reporting Commands and requests, Statements, Questions
6. Clauses: (i) Noun clauses (ii) Adverb clauses of condition and time (iii) Relative clauses
7. Determiners
8. Prepositions
The above items may be tested through test types(grammar in context) as given below:
·
Q. 5: Gap filling with one or two words to test
Prepositions, Articles, Conjunctions and Tenses. 4 marks
·
Q. 6: Editing or omission 4 marks
·
Q. 7: Sentences reordering or sentence
transformation in context. 4 marks
SECTION C:
LITERATURE TEXTBOOKS
There will be 30 Marks to be covered
in 60 Periods
·
Q. 8. One out of two extracts from
prose/poetry/play for reference to the context. Four Very Short Answer
Questions: two questions of one mark each on global comprehension and two
questions of one mark each on interpretation. (1×4=4 marks)
·
Q.9. Five Short Answer Type Questions from BEEHIVE
AND MOMENTS (3 questions from BEEHIVE and 2 questions from MOMENTS) to
test local and global comprehension of theme and ideas (30-40 words each)
2×5 = 10 marks
·
Q.10. One out two long answer type questions from
the book BEEHIVE to assess Creativity, imagination and extrapolation
beyond the text and across the texts. (100-150 words) 8 marks
·
Q.11. One out of two Long Answer Questions from the
book MOMENTS on theme or plot involving interpretation, extrapolation
beyond the text and inference or character sketch in about 100-150 words.
Prescribed Books
for class 9 English
The books are Published by NCERT, New Delhi
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BEEHIVE – Textbook for class
IX
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MOMENTS – Supplementary Reader
for Class IX
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