Tamil Nadu State Syllabus (SCERT) — English, and General English at 11 and 12

Class 9 English — Tamil Nadu SCERT

Follows English, Standard IX (SCERT Tamil Nadu — Free Textbook Programme, Revised edition, current print)

A year of English for Class 9 on the Tamil Nadu state syllabus, following the SCERT reader through every prose lesson, poem, drama and supplementary reading. Each is taught over three short days: the lesson, then a sheet marked at once, then a recall round. The grammar the book sets unit by unit — prepositions, degrees of comparison, clauses, modals, tenses, connectors, the passive, determiners and reported speech — is taught inside the lesson it belongs to. 66 daily sessions of 10–15 minutes.

66 daily sessions22 lessons10–15 minutes a day37 hours in all

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Start Day 1

66 days, in the book’s own order

Every lesson in the textbook is taught over three short days rather than one long sitting — because ten minutes is a thing a child does on a bus, and forty is a thing somebody has to make them do.

Learn

What the lesson is about and the grammar it carries. About 15 minutes.

Practise

Worked examples, then a sheet marked the moment you submit it. About 15 minutes.

Recall

Read aloud, three things to remember, and questions from earlier units. About 10 minutes.

  1. 1.Learning the Game (Sachin Tendulkar)

    Day 1Learn21mDay 2Practise54mDay 3Recall30m
  2. 2.Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (Robert Frost)

    Day 4Learn21mDay 5Practise51mDay 6Recall25m
  3. 3.The Envious Neighbour

    Day 7Learn21mDay 8Practise43mDay 9Recall30m
  4. 4.I can’t Climb Trees Anymore (Ruskin Bond)

    Day 10Learn20mDay 11Practise54mDay 12Recall30m
  5. 5.A Poison Tree (William Blake)

    Day 13Learn21mDay 14Practise45mDay 15Recall25m
  6. 6.The Fun They Had (Isaac Asimov)

    Day 16Learn20mDay 17Practise45mDay 18Recall30m
  7. 7.Old Man River

    Day 19Learn21mDay 20Practise51mDay 21Recall35m
  8. 8.On Killing a Tree (Gieve Patel)

    Day 22Learn21mDay 23Practise50mDay 24Recall30m
  9. 9.Earthquake

    Day 25Learn21mDay 26Practise51mDay 27Recall35m
  10. 10.Seventeen Oranges (Bill Naughton)

    Day 28Learn21mDay 29Practise51mDay 30Recall30m
  11. 11.The Spider and the Fly (Mary Howitt)

    Day 31Learn21mDay 32Practise49mDay 33Recall25m
  12. 12.The Cat and the Painkiller (Mark Twain)

    Day 34Learn21mDay 35Practise45mDay 36Recall30m
  13. 13.Water: The Elixir of Life (Sir C.V. Raman)

    Day 37Learn21mDay 38Practise51mDay 39Recall35m
  14. 14.The River

    Day 40Learn21mDay 41Practise51mDay 42Recall25m
  15. 15.Little Cyclone: The Story of a Grizzly Cub

    Day 43Learn20mDay 44Practise51mDay 45Recall30m
  16. 16.From Zero to Infinity

    Day 46Learn21mDay 47Practise55mDay 48Recall35m
  17. 17.The Comet

    Day 49Learn19mDay 50Practise50mDay 51Recall30m
  18. 18.Mother’s Voice

    Day 52Learn21mDay 53Practise45mDay 54Recall35m
  19. 19.A Birthday Letter

    Day 55Learn20mDay 56Practise51mDay 57Recall30m
  20. 20.The Stick-together Families

    Day 58Learn20mDay 59Practise50mDay 60Recall30m
  21. 21.The Christmas Truce

    Day 61Learn21mDay 62Practise51mDay 63Recall30m
  22. 22.Everything from Class 9

    Day 64Learn22mDay 65Practise53mDay 66Recall35m

Every third day is a recall day, and it deliberately asks about lessons from one, three and seven units ago rather than the one just finished. Getting those wrong is the point — a thing you have to reach for is a thing you still have in March.

What is included

  • 66 daily sessions following English, Standard IX (SCERT Tamil Nadu — Free Textbook Programme, Revised edition, current print)
  • Every day played as an illustrated story episode — animated scenes, read-to-me, key words to collect and puzzles
  • 22 lessons, each taught over three short days
  • A marked practice sheet on every practise day
  • A spaced recall quiz on every recall day, from earlier units
  • Read-aloud lines scored for clarity by the platform
  • Worked examples for every grammar and writing point
  • A full revision unit written against the question paper
  • XP, a streak, and a certificate at the end

The textbook itself is copyright NCERT or the relevant State Council. This course follows the same units in the same order and teaches the same grammar and writing skills, with entirely original explanations, examples and questions. It does not reproduce the textbook, and it is not a substitute for it.

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