Maharashtra State Board of Secondary & Higher Secondary Education Class 9 English (First Language) Syllabus for Academic Session 2026-27
Maharashtra State Board Class 9 English Syllabus 2026-27 – Here is Maharashtra State Board of Secondary & Higher Secondary Education Class 9 English (First Language) Syllabus. The curriculum framework of Maharashtra State Board for the subject of English (First Language) at Std. IX has been prepared bearing in mind the National Curriculum Framework and the State Curriculum Framework, the curriculums of the CBSE, the ISCE and different State Boards. Students can check our post for Maharashtra State Board Class 9 English Syllabus 2026-27 as per the latest exam pattern.
Maharashtra State Board Class 9 Syllabus of English as First Language
Section Wise Weightage
The following weightage is to be given to the various aspects of the syllabus.
| S. No. | Topics | Weightage |
| 1 | Reading Skill (Textual and Non-Textual) | 40% |
| 2 | Grammar | 15% |
| 3 | Writing Skill | 25% |
| 4 | Orel Test | 20% |
English Literature
Prose and Poem – A Coursebook in English (Kumarbharati)
- Life
- A Synopsis-The Swiss Family Robinson
- Have you ever seen …?
- Have you thought of the verb ‘have’
- The Necklace
- Invictus
- A True Story of Sea Turtles
- Somebody’s Mother
- The Fall of Troy
- Autumn
- The Past in the Present
- Silver
- Reading Works of Art
- The Road Not Taken
- How the First Letter was Written
- Please Listen
- The Storyteller
- Intellectual Rubbish
- My Financial Career
- Tansen
Grammar
| S. No | Items | Specification |
| 1. | Revision of grammatical items studied up to Std VIII. | ————————— |
| 2. | Different kinds of sentences | Assertive/Exclamatory/Imperative/Negative/Interrogative |
| 3. | The Tenses | a) i) Simple present ii) Present Continuous, iii) Simple past iv) Past Continuous
b) Sequence of tenses |
| 4. | Articles | a, an. the |
| 5. | Preposition | different uses |
| 6. | Tenses of Perception | Uses of ‘see’, ‘hear’, ‘smell’, ‘feel’, ‘taste’ |
| 7. | Concord | Subject +Verb agreement |
| 8. | Word Formation | Nouns/Adjectives/Verbs/Adverbs |
| 9. | Voice | Statements, questions, negatives, indirect object |
| 10 | Question formation | a) Yes/No question
b) ‘Wh’+ question |
| 11. | Reported Speech | Statements, questions, commands, requests |
| 12. | Punctuation | Usage |
| 13 | Non-finites | Infinitives, Gerunds, Participles |
| 14. | Modal Auxiliaries | Uses of ‘will’, ‘shall’ |
| 15. | Collocation | The co-occurrence of lexical items |
Writing Skill
- Formal and informal letters.
- Descriptive writing (events, objects and processes).
- Story writing.
- Essay writing (200-250 words).
- Dialogue writing (on different situations such as at the Principal’s office, Enquiry counter at the Railway station/S.T. stand, etc.)
- Report writing (conversation, interviews, and radio talks.)
- Note making and summarizing
- Write minutes, notices, curriculum vitae transfer information from verbal to diagrammatical form and vice versa.
- Article writing for school magazines, journals, etc.
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