BSEB Class 9 English Syllabus 2026-27

(20 marks)

• Report Writing
• Notice Writing
• Message Writing
• Speech Writing

• Tenses
• Narration
• Determiners
• Subject-verb agreement
• Prepositions
• Idioms and Phrases
• Modals
• Clauses
• Reported Speech

• Translation (From Hindi to English)

Prose 20, Poems 10, and Supplementary Reader 10)

• Prose
• Poetry
• Drama

• Dharam Juddha
• Yayati
• A Silent Revolution
• Too Many People Too Few Trees
• Echo and Narcissus
• The Shehnai of Bismillah Khan
• Kathmandu
• My Childhood
• The Gift of the Magi

• The Grandmother
• On His Blindness
• Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
• To Daffodils
• Sound
• Self Introduction
• I am Like Grass
• Abraham Lincoln’s Letter to His Son’s Teacher

• “I’m Going to Dance Again”
• Scaling Great Heights
• Saint Kabir
• The Eyes Are Not Here
• Ismat Chughtai: A Lady with a Difference
• The Accidental Tourist
• Saint Ravidas
• Bharathipura

• Tenses (Present with extension) 
• Modals (have to / had to, must, should, need, ought to) 
• Active Voice and Passive Voice 
• Reporting (Commands, Statements, Questions) 
• Subject-verb agreement
• Clauses: (i) Noun Clauses (ii) Adverb Clauses of condition and time (iii) Relative clauses 
• Determiners 
• Prepositions 

• To Headmaster – to excuse your fine fees
• To Chairman, Municipal Corporation – for proper cleaning of drains of your locality
• To Area Manager, BSNL – complaining about dead telephones
• To Headmaster– For three days’ leave 
• To Editor of a newspaper– About polluted water supply in your area 
• To Chairman, Vidyut Board– About frequent power cuts in your colony
• To Editor of a newspaper – About increasing incidents of crime in your city
• To Headmaster– For help from Poor Boys’ Fund
• To Bookseller – Placing order for some books

• To father – to send money to buy books
• To friend – inviting him to attend your brother’s marriage
• To uncle – thanking him for sending you a nice birthday gift
• To friend – how you spent the summer holidays
• To friend – congratulating him on his grand success in the examination
• To father – for permission to go on a school educational trip
• To friend – inviting him to spend a week with you during Puja holidays
• To father – about the aim of your life  
• To friend – about annual prize distribution ceremony in your school 

• Notice, Report, Speech, Message writing 

• The person you like the most, Television
• Your favourite game, An exciting cricket/football match
• Rainy Season, The Happiest Day of your Life