UP BOARD Class 9 English Syllabus 2020-21

विषय- अंग्रेजी 
(कक्षा-9) 

कोविड-19 महामारी के कारण शैक्षिक सत्र-2020-21 में विद्यालयों में समय से पठन-पाठन का कार्य न हो पाने की स्थिति में सम्यक विचारोपरान्त विषय विशषज्ञों की समिति द्वारा निम्नवत् 30 प्रतिशत पाठ्यक्रम कम किये जाने की अनुशंसा की गयी हैः

Text Book Prose-

• 1-Packing – Jerome K. Jerome
• 2-The Bond of Love – Kenneth Anderson
• 3-Kathmandu – Vikram Seth
• 4- If I were you – Douglas James 

Poetry-

• 1. On Killing a Tree – Gieve Patel
• 2. The Snake Trying – W.W.E. Ross
• 3. A Slumber Did My Sprit Seal – William Wordsworth

Supplementary Reader –

• 1. A House is not a Home – Zan Gaudioso
• 2. The Accidental Tourist – Bill Bryson
• 3. The Beggar – Anton Chekhov

उपर्यु क्त के अनुक्रम में 70 प्रतिशत का पाठ्यक्रम निम्नवत है- 

UP BOARD Class 9 English Syllabus 2020-21 

Class – IX

Syllabus – English

Max Marks – 70

Section A – Reading- 10 Marks

1. One long passage followed by two short-answer questions and two very short-answer type vocabulary based/language based questions3+3=6 (Short Questions)2+2=4 (Vocabulary)

Section B – Writing- 10 Marks

 2. Letter/Application writing. 4

3. Descriptive paragraph/Report/Article based on given verbal clues. 6

Section C – Grammar- 15 Marks

4. Ten very short answer type questions based on Parts of Speech, Tenses,

Narrations, Articles, Voice, Reordering of sentences, punctuation etc.1x10=10
5. A very short passage in Hindi for translation into English. 5
Section D – Literature - 35 Marks
Beehive – Text Book
Prose- 15
6. Two short answer type questions based on a given prose passage. 2+2=4
7. One long answer type question. 4
8. Two short answer type questions. 4
9. Three very short vocabulary based/match type questions. 1x3=3
Poetry- 8
10. Two short answer type questions based on a given poetry extract. 2+2=4
11. Central idea of any one of the given poems. 4

OR

Four lines from any poem prescribed in the syllabus.
Moments – Supplementary Reader - 12
12. Two short answer type questions. 2+2=4
13. One long answer type question. 4
14. Four very short answer type questions (True/False, Completing the
sentence)
1x4=4
Words & Expression [Eng. Work book] Prescribed Lessons
Beehive (Text Book)

Prose –

• 1. The Fun They Had – Isaac Asimov
• 2. The Sound of Music – I. EvelynGlennie – Deborah Cowly

II. Bismillah Khan

• 3. The Little Girl – Katherine Mansfield
• 4.` A Truly Beautiful Mind –
• 5. The Snake and the Mirror – Vaikom Muhammad Basheer
• 6. My Childhood – A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
• 7. Reach for the Top (I) Santosh Yadav (II) Maria Sharapova

Poetry –

• 1. The Road Not Taken – Robert Frost
• 2. Wind – Subramania Bharati
• 3. Rain on the Roof – Coates Kinney
• 4. The Lake Isle of Innisfree – William Butler Yeats
• 5. A Legend of the Northland – Phoebe Cary
• 6. No Men Are Foreign – James Kirkup
• 7. The Duck and the Kangaroo – Edward Lear

Moments Supplementary Reader –

• 1. The Lost Child – Mulk Raj Anand
• 2. The Adventures of Toto – Ruskin Bond
• 3. Iswaran the Storyteller – R.K. Laxman
• 4. In the Kingdom of Fools – A.K. Ramanujan
• 5. The Happy Prince – Oscar Wilde
• 6. Weathering the Storm in Ersama – Harsh Mander
• 7. The Last Leaf – O Henry