NCERT Solutions for Class 9 English

English Reading Skills

This section tests your reading skills, i.e. your ability to read and understand a passage. There will be two passages based on which questions will be asked:

1: A factual passage of 300-350 words with eight Very Short Answer Type Questions.

2: A discursive passage of 350-400 words with four Short Answer Type Questions to test inference, evaluation, and analysis and four Very Short Answer Questions to test vocabulary.

English Writing Skills with Grammar

3: Writing an Informal Letter on a situation/Descriptive Paragraph (person/place/event/diary entry) in about 150-200 words based on visual or verbal cue/s. (10 marks)

4: Writing a story based on a given outline or cue/s in about 150-200 words. (10 marks)

5: Cloze passage / Gap Filling / Editing.

6: Dialogue Writing/ Reporting dialogue on a given cue.

English Literature

7: One out of two concentrates from composition/verse/play for reference to the unique circumstance. Two Short Answer Type Questions of two denotes each dependent on translation.

8: Five Short Answer Type Questions out of seven short answer type inquiries from BEEHIVE and MOMENTS (3 inquiries out of four from BEEHIVE and 2 inquiries out of three from MOMENTS) to test neighbourhood and worldwide understanding of topic and thoughts (to be replied in 30-40 words each).

9: One out of two Long Answer Type inquiries to be replied in 100-150 words, from the book BEEHIVE to evaluate inventiveness, creative mind, and extrapolation past the content and over the writings. This can be a section based inquiry taken from a circumstance/plot from the writings.

10: One out of two Long Answer Type inquiries from the book MOMENTS on subject or plot including translation, extrapolation past the content, and surmising or character sketch in around (100-150 words).

BEEHIVE – Textbook for Class IX

• The Fun They Had
• The Road Not Taken [Poem]
• The Sound of Music
• Wind [Poem]
• The Little Girl
• Rain On The Roof [Poem]
• A Truly Beautiful Mind
• The Lake Isle Of Innisfree [Poem] (Deleted)
• The Snake and The Mirror (Deleted)
• A Legend Of The Northland [Poem]
• My Childhood
• No Men Are Foreign [Poem]
• Packing
• Reach for the Top
• On Killing A Tree [Poem]
• The Bond of Love
• The Snake Trying [Poem]
• Kathmandu (Deleted)
• A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal [Poem] (Deleted)
• If I Were You

MOMENTS – Supplementary Reader for Class IX

• The Lost Child
• The Adventure Of Toto
• Iswaran The Storyteller (Deleted)
• In The Kingdom Of Fools
• The Happy Prince
• Weathering The Storm In Ersama
• The Last Leaf
• A House Is Not A Home
• The Accidental Tourist (Deleted)

The Beggar