STD 9 English 1st Term 2021
STD 9 English 1st Term 2021
STD 9 English 1st Term 2021
A2) What was the cunning plan to defeat the Trojans? (2 Marks)
A3) Word Formation: (2 marks)
Noun Verb Adjective
pretend pretentious
persuasion persuade
A4) Do as directed: (2 marks)
a) A great horse of wood was made by a skilful engineer. (Change the voice)
b) The Greeks burned their tents and sailed away in their ships. (Rewrite as
interrogative)
A5) Personal response: (2 marks)
Do you think the plan made by the Greeks was a good one? Explain.
Q2. (B) Read the following passage and do the activities. (10 marks)
B1) Name the following: ( 2 marks)
a) She lost the necklace that she was wearing.
b) The place where the Loisels lived.
The day of the party arrived. Madame Loisel was a success. She was prettier than all the
other women, elegant, gracious, smiling, and full of joy. She danced wildly, with passion,
forgetting everything in the triumph of her beauty and success, floating in a cloud of
happiness.
Mathilde and her husband left at about four o’clock in the morning. When they were
finally in the street, they could not find a cab. They walked down toward the Seine, till
they found one. They were dropped off at their door in the Rue des Martyrs, and sadly, it
was all over, for her. In front of the mirror, she took a final look at herself in all her
glory. But suddenly she uttered a cry. She no longer had the necklace round her neck!
“What is the matter?” asked her husband.
She turned towards him, panic-stricken, “I have ... I have ... I no longer have Madame
Forestier’s necklace.”
B2) Why didn’t Mathilde realise immediately that she had lost the necklace? ( 2 marks)
B3) Pick a correct phrase or word from the passage and complete the given sentences.
(2 marks)
a) The streets were full of ____________ people trying to escape the tear gas.
b) They had hoped to win but were __________ disappointed.
B4) Do as directed: (2 marks)
a) Madame Loisel was a success. (Rewrite as negative)
b) When they were finally in the street, they could not find a cab. (Identify whether
simple, compound or complex sentence)
B5) Personal response: ( 2 marks)
What would you do if you lost something, that you had borrowed from a friend?
Section III: Poetry
Q3. (A) Read the following extract and do the activities. (5 Marks)
A1) Rearrange the following in their proper order as in the extract: (2 Marks)
a) The schoolboys rushed past the woman.
b) No one offered to help the woman.
c) The boys were happy that school had ended that day.
d) The boy offered to help the woman cross the street.
Down the street with laughter and shout,
Glad in the freedom of ‘school let out’,
Came happy boys, like a flock of sheep,
Hailing the snow piled white and deep;
Past the woman, so old and gray,
Hastened the children on their way.
Q3. (B) Read the following poem and write an appreciation of it with the help of the
given points in paragraph format. (5 Marks)
(Title, poet, rhyme scheme, figures of speech and central idea/theme)
Autumn
THE autumn comes, a maiden fair
In slenderness and grace,
With nodding rice - stems in her hair
And lilies in her face.
In flowers of grasses she is clad;
And as she moves along,
Birds greet her with their cooing glad
Like a bracelet’s tinkling song.
Therapy dogs are dogs that are trained to give affection and comfort to people in
unfortunate situations. They are often used to help people in hospitals, retirement
homes, schools, and people with learning disabilities. As therapy dogs must work with
many kinds of people, such as young children or the elderly, they must have patience
and sensitivity.
The story of the first therapy dog is very interesting. During World War II, a soldier
named William Wynne found a Yorkshire Terrier dog abandoned on the battlefield. He
became friends with the dog and named it Smoky. When Corporal Wynne became very
ill and entered a hospital, his friends brought Smoky for a visit. Smoky became so
popular with the other sick soldiers in the hospital that he was allowed to stay. The
doctors in the hospital used Smoky to help cheer up the patients. After the war ended,
he continued to work as a therapy dog in the United States.
Today, therapy pets are used to help many different people with problems. For
example, they help soldiers who have been traumatized by their combat experience.
They are also used to help children with reading disabilities by providing an audience
that won’t belittle them. Some therapy pets are used to help people undergoing
physical therapy.
A2) How did Smoky become the first therapy dog? (2 marks)
A3) Do as directed: (2 marks)
a) Pick a word from the passage which means: to suffer from lasting shock due to a
disturbing experience or physical injury.
b) Add a suitable prefix to the word ‘continued’ to get the antonym.
A4) Do as directed: (2 marks)
a) Pick an example of a compound word from the passage.
b) The story of the first therapy dog is very interesting. (Add a question tag)
A5) Personal response: (2 marks)
How do you think animals can provide humans comfort to humans?
Q4. (B) Read the above passage (Q. No 4 A) and write the summary of it in a paragraph.
Suggest a suitable title. (5 Marks)
Section V: Writing Skills
Q5. Letter Writing: (5 Marks)
Your elderly uncle is travelling to visit you. Write a letter reminding him about the
safety precautions and protective measures he should take while travelling during the
ongoing pandemic.
Q6) Information Transfer: (5 Marks)
Read the passage and prepare a flowchart based on the events in the life of Albert
Einstein.
Albert Einstein was born in Germany on 14 March 1879. Einstein’s parents were both
Jewish and he had a younger sister called Maja. Although he apparently didn’t like
school, Einstein showed he had a great mind for maths and science from a young age.
When Einstein was 15, his family moved to Milan in Italy in 1894. From there he
attended the Polytechnic Academy in the Swiss city of Zurich and in 1900 Einstein
graduated with a degree in Physics and Maths. He completed his Ph.D. in 1905 and
published four pivotal scientific works that would later revolutionize modern physics.
In 1915 he published his general theory of relativity. Einstein won the Nobel Prize for
Physics in 1921 for his work on photoelectric effect. Einstein lived in Germany during
World War 1 but he was a pacifist – this meant he didn’t believe in war and violence and
wanted disagreements to be settled peacefully. In 1933 he moved to the USA. On 18th
April 1955, Albert Einstein died at the age of 76 from heart failure.