The secondary stage of English language learning emphasizes authentic literature and contemporary texts. English classes aim to develop communicative competence, creativity, and language enrichment through reading, speaking, and writing activities.

Focus areas include imagination development, language skills for communication, and engagement with literature from various perspectives.

• Build proficiency in oral and written communication
• Engage in independent reflection and inquiry
• Use English effectively in various social contexts
• Develop skills to articulate and defend viewpoints logically
• Appreciate world literature and different English varieties
• Access information through dictionaries, libraries, and internet
• Foster curiosity and creativity through extensive reading
• Encourage self-learning and peer feedback
• Develop listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in practical scenarios
• Transcode information from graphs, charts, or pictorial representations
• Promote appreciation for multilingualism and Indian literature

• Sequence of tenses
• Reported speech in extended texts
• Modal auxiliaries
• Non-finites: infinitives, gerunds, participles
• Conditional clauses
• Complex and compound sentences
• Phrasal verbs and prepositional phrases
• Cohesive devices
• Punctuation: semicolon, colon, dash, hyphen, parentheses, exclamation mark

Methodology is multi-skill, activity-based, and learner-centered. Teachers act as facilitators using aural-oral techniques, print and electronic media.

• Role play, dramatization, and miming
• Simulating real-life situations
• Problem-solving and decision-making activities
• Interpreting charts, tables, and schedules
• Analyzing newspaper clippings
• Language games, riddles, and puzzles
• Debates, discussions, and storytelling
• Recitation of poems and group activities
• Use of multimedia inputs: computer, TV, videos, software

Class IX English Syllabus – Total Marks: 80

For Internal Assessment (20 marks), refer to CBSE Circular no. Acad-11/2019 dated March 06, 2019.

1. BEEHIVE

• Prose: The Fun They Had, The Sound of Music, The Little Girl, A Truly Beautiful Mind, The Snake and the Mirror, My Childhood, Reach for The Top, Kathmandu, If I Were You
• Poems: The Road Not Taken, Wind, Rain on The Roof, The Lake Isle of Innisfree, A Legend of the Northland, No Men are Foreign, On Killing a Tree, A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal

2. MOMENTS

• The Lost Child, The Adventures of Toto, Iswaran the Storyteller, In the Kingdom of Fools, The Happy Prince, The Last Leaf, A House is Not a Home, The Beggar

3. WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS – I – Workbook for Class IX Units 1-6, 8, 10 & 11

Listening and Speaking: 5 marks

Regular practice is recommended with art-integrated projects like Role Play, Skit, Dramatization, etc. Circular no. Acad-33/2020.