WBBSE 9 English Syllabus

The West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE) has released the updated Class 9 English Syllabus for the academic year. This new syllabus helps students build strong reading, writing, and comprehension skills while preparing them for the Class 10 (Madhyamik) English curriculum.

ENGLISH – ENGB

Internal Formative Evaluation (10 Marks)

Summative Evaluation (90 Marks)

Lessons

Sl. No.	Lesson	Author
	Prose
1	Tales of Bhola Grandpa	Manoj Das
2	All About a Dog	A. G. Gardiner
3	A Day in the Zoo	Gerald Durrell
4	Tom Loses a Tooth	Mark Twain
5	His First Flight	Liam O’Flaherty
6	The Price of Bananas	Mulk Raj Anand
7	A Shipwrecked Sailor	Daniel Defoe
8	All Summar in a Day	Ray Bradbury
	Poetry
1	Autumn	John Clare
2	Mild the Mist upon the Hill	Emily Jane Brontë
3	The North Ship	Philip Larkin
4	Hunting Snake	Judith Wright

Term-wise Syllabus

Summative Assessment	Lessons
SA – 1	Tales of Bhola Grandpa Autumn All About a Dog A Day in the Zoo
SA – 2	All Summer in a Day Tom Loses a Tooth Mild the Mist upon the Hill His First Flight
SA – 3	The North Ship A Shipwrecked Sailor The Price of Bananas Hunting Snake

Question Pattern

Section	MCQ (1 mark)	SAQ (1 mark, 15 words)	LAQ (2 marks, 25 words)	DAQ (10 marks, 100 words)	Total
A. Textual Questions (Prose/Poetry)	5 × 1 = 5	4 × 1 = 4	3 × 2 = 6	—	25
B. Reading Comprehension	5 × 1 = 5	3 × 2 = 6	2 × 2 = 4	—	15
C. Grammar & Vocabulary	4 × 1 = 4	10 × 1 = 10	3 × 2 = 6	—	20
D. Writing	—	—	—	3 × 10 = 30	30
Total (Summative 3)	—	—	—	—	90

Recommended Books for WBBSE 9 English

Blossoms Class IX (WBBSE) – Main textbook
Grammar Plus / Rapid Grammar / Key to English Grammar (recommended by WB Board schools)
WBBSE English Model Question Papers