Class – IX
English 1st paper
Full Marks – 100
English for Today (Unit: 1, 2,3,4 and 5)
Part – A (Reading): 50 Marks
Seen passage
1. Multiple choice question 1X7 = 07
2. Answering questions (open and close ended) 2X5 = 10
3. Gap filling 1X5 = 05
Unseen passage
4. Information transfer 1X5 = 05
5. Writing summary 10
6. Matching 1X5 = 05
7. Re-arranging sentences 1X8 = 08
8. Answer questions from poems (any five out of 8) 2X5 = 10
9. Answering questions from stories (any five out of 8) 2X5 = 10
Part – B (Writing): 30 Marks
10. Completing story 15
11. Writing dialogues 15
Half Yearly (January-June)
▪ Selected poems (Unit- 11, EFT)
1. Books by Eleanor Farjeon
2. Two Mother’s Remembered by Joanne Snow Duncanson
▪ Selected completing stories
1. Hidden treasure
2. The cruelty of a house mistress
3. Grasp all, lose all
4. A dove and an ant
▪ Writing dialogues:
1. A dialogue regarding your future plan after the publication of the result.
2. A dialogue about the benefits of early rising.
3. A dialogue between you and the book seller about buying a book.
4. A dialogue about the proper use of time.
Class – IX
English 2nd paper
Full Marks – 100
Part – A (Grammar): 60 Marks
1. Gap filling with clues 1X10 = 10
2. Substitution table 1X5 = 05
3. Right form of verbs 1X10 = 10
4. Changing sentences (affirmative, negative, assertive, interrogative,
exclamatory) 1X10 = 10
5. Tag questions 1X5 = 05
6. Suffixes and prefixes 1X5 = 05
7. Preposition 1X5 = 05
8. Connectors/linking words 1X5 = 05
9. Punctuation and capitalisation 05
Part – B (Writing): 40 Marks
10. Writing paragraph 10
11. Writing email/letter/application 10
12. Writing short composition 20
Half Yearly Examination (January-June)
▪ Writing Paragraph:
1. A rainy day
2. A tea stall
3. A school magazine
4. Climate change
▪ Writing Letter/Application/Email
1. An application to the headmaster of your school for a full free studentship/financial help.
2. An application to the headmaster of your school seeking permission to go on a study tour.
3. An application to the headmaster of your school for remission of delay fine
4. An application to the headmaster of your school for leaving school early/short leave.
5. An application to the headmaster of your school for setting up a canteen in your school.
▪ Short composition
1. Natural calamities in Bangladesh
2. Uses and Abuses of Internet
3. Duties in Students’ Life
4. Wonders of modern science
Rumana Islam
Associate Professor & Head of Department
Department of English
Milestone College