West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE) Class 9 English (Second Language) Syllabus for Academic Session 2024-25
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WBBSE Class 9 Syllabus of English as Second Language
The following competencies included under the heading of LSRW skills are reflected in the syllabus:
Listening skill:
Ability to—
- fill up charts/ tables by listening to a passage read out, or a pre-recorded audio/audio-visual clip (e.g. news bulletin, commentary, a story or a narration
- listen and follow instructions with the objective of composing process writing
Speaking skill:
Ability to—
- express oneself clearly, correctly, and appropriately
- participate in debates and group discussions
- elocute
- simulate
- dramatize a situation
- speak from a mimed cue
- narrate stories from given cues
Reading skill:
Ability to—
- skim for specific information
- scan for general information
- read top-down and bottom-up
- read intensively/in-depth for total comprehension
- read extensively
- develop reference skills (to consult a library/ a dictionary/electronic media)
Grammar and Vocabulary:
Ability to—
- change Active Voice to Passive Voice and vice versa (Present and Past perfect, Simple Future tense)
- identify and use of Gerund in meaningful sentences
- change Direct speech into Indirect speech and vice versa (based on types of sentences)
- Identify the types of sentences (Simple, Complex, Compound)
- transform sentences
- simple, complex and compound
- assertive, interrogative, exclamatory
- based on parts of speech
- do phrasal verb applications
- do idiomatic applications
Writing skill:
Ability to do—
- process writing
- newspaper report writing
- formal letter writing
- letter of enquiry
- letter for seeking leave
All the grammatical items and writing skills practised in the previous classes of Upper Primary level are to be recapitulated and reinforced.
Textbook: ‘Bliss: English Textbook for class IX’ (Second Language)
Lessons for English (Second Language)
- Tales of Bhola Grandpa—Manoj Das
- All about a Dog—A.G Gardiner
- Autumn—John Clare
- A Day in the Zoo—Gerald Durrell
- All Summer in a Day—Ray Bradbury
- Mild the Mist upon the Hill—Emily Jane Bronte
- Tom Loses a Tooth—Mark Twain
- His First Flight—Liam O’Flaherty
- The North Ship—Philip Larkin
- The Price of Bananas—Mulk Raj Anand
- A Shipwrecked Sailor—Daniel Defoe
- Hunting Snake—Judith Wright
- Reading Comprehension
Distribution of Marks and Question pattern:
Testing Areas | MCQ 1 mark each | Short Answer Type Questions (SAQ) 1 mark each | Long Answer Type Questions (LAQ) 2 mark each | Descriptive Answer Type Questions (DAQ) 10 mark each | Total Marks |
(A) Textual Questions | Prose: –
No. of Questions-5 Total: 1×5=5 |
Prose: –
No. of Questions-4 Total: 1×4=4 |
Prose: –
No. of Questions-3 Total: 2×3=6 |
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Prose: –
No. of Questions-6 Total: 1×6=6 |
Prose: –
No. of Questions-2 Total: 2×2=4 |
nil | 25 | ||
(B) Reading Comprehension | No. of questions-5 Total: 1×5=5 | No. of questions-3 Total: (1+1)x3=6 | No. of questions-2 Total: 2×2=4 | nil | 15 |
(C) Grammar and Vocabulary | No. of questions – 3 Total: 1×4=4 | No. of questions – 10 Total: 1×10=10 | No. of questions – 3 Total: 2×3=6 | nil | 20 |
(D) Writing | nil | nil | nil | No. of questions – 3 Total 10×3=30 | 30 |
Total Marks per Question type | 20 | 20 | 20 | 30 | Total 90 |
Types of Questions:
- Multiple choice question (MCQ): All compulsory questions
- Short answer type question (SAQ): Answer not exceeding 15 words
- Longer answer type question (LAQ): Answer not exceeding 25 words
- Descriptive answer type question (DAQ): Answer not exceeding 100 words
Total marks: 100
- Internal Formative Evaluation: 10 marks
- 3rd Summative Evaluation: 90 marks