Class 9 English

Literature: Beehive

Chapter 1: The Fun They Had

Short story by Isaac Asimov about future education.

View Notes

Chapter 2: The Sound of Music

Biographies of Evelyn Glennie and Bismillah Khan.

View Notes

Chapter 3: The Little Girl

Story by Katherine Mansfield about family relationships.

View Notes

Chapter 4: A Truly Beautiful Mind

Biography of Albert Einstein.

View Notes

Chapter 5: The Snake and the Mirror

Humorous story by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer.

View Notes

Chapter 6: My Childhood

Autobiography of APJ Abdul Kalam.

View Notes

Chapter 7: Packing

Humorous excerpt from Jerome K. Jerome's novel.

View Notes

Chapter 8: Reach for the Top

Stories of Santosh Yadav and Maria Sharapova.

View Notes

Chapter 9: The Bond of Love

Story about human-animal relationship.

View Notes

Poems

Poem 1: The Road Not Taken

Robert Frost's poem about life choices.

View Notes

Poem 2: Wind

Poem by Subramania Bharati about challenges.

View Notes

Poem 3: Rain on the Roof

Coates Kinney's nostalgic poem.

View Notes

Poem 4: The Lake Isle of Innisfree

W.B. Yeats' poem about longing for nature.

View Notes

Supplementary: Moments

Chapter 1: The Lost Child

Story by Mulk Raj Anand about childhood.

View Notes

Chapter 2: The Adventures of Toto

Ruskin Bond's humorous story about a monkey.

View Notes

Chapter 3: Iswaran the Storyteller

Story about a cook with wild imagination.

View Notes

Chapter 4: In the Kingdom of Fools

Folktale about a foolish kingdom.

View Notes

Chapter 5: The Happy Prince

Oscar Wilde's classic story about sacrifice.

View Notes

Grammar

Tenses

Present, past and future tenses with examples.

View Notes

Modals

Usage of can, could, may, might, etc.

View Notes

Reported Speech

Rules for converting direct to indirect speech.

View Notes

Clauses

Noun, adjective and adverb clauses.

View Notes