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Grade 9 English, Explained

A companion to Nepal’s Grade 9 English: every reading text explained part by part in our own words, the hard words, every exercise answered, the grammar made clear, and each speaking, listening and writing task turned into practice you can do alone.

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  1. Unit 1 Travel and Holidays Eight days of trekking and yoga to Poon Hill, and a traveler in the snow: how do you say what you’ve arranged, planned or just decided? Future forms  
  2. Unit 2 Health and Hygiene How did a lazy king get his health back without a single medicine, and how can a doctor treat a patient she never meets? Should, ought to, had better; conditionals  
  3. Unit 3 Family, Market and Public Places Why did a father leave his son’s office without asking for help? And why did the plainest request at the disco work? Requests and offers: can, could, would  
  4. Unit 4 Life and Death How do you comfort someone who has lost a person they love? And why is it “each of the students has”, not “have”? Present simple; subject–verb agreement  
  5. Unit 5 Ethics, Norms and Values Why do Japanese students say sorry far more often than Americans? Apologizing well, and saying what is happening right now. Present continuous  
  6. Unit 6 Custom and Culture Why do some people slurp noodles, point with their lips, or give their dead to vultures? Customs look strange until you learn what they mean. Yes/no questions; reported yes/no questions  
  7. Unit 7 Ecology and Environment How does a marmot sleep through half a year of Himalayan winter, and why did more pesticide only make a farmer’s potato moths stronger? First conditional  
  8. Unit 8 Science and Technology A robot said “Namaste Nepal” to a hall in Kathmandu: did it understand a word? And could sunlight caught in space one day be beamed down to us? Relative clauses  
  9. Unit 9 Work and Leisure The ant worked and the grasshopper sang, so why does the grasshopper end up rich? And what is life if we have no time to stand and stare? Causative verbs; passive voice  
  10. Unit 10 The Earth and Space If visitors from another planet asked you to carry one message to the world, what would it be? And why is Pluto no longer a planet? Prepositions  
  11. Unit 11 Gadgets and Instruments How do you look after the gadgets you depend on, and pass on exactly what someone told you to do? Reported speech: statements and commands  
  12. Unit 12 People and Places How did a boy whose parents fought his dream of writing become one of the world’s most translated authors? And how do you show someone the way? Articles  
  13. Unit 13 Organization Profile and Authority What does an organization that helps countries do? And how do you say what a thing is for, why it happened, or what happened in spite of it? Connectives of purpose, reason and contrast  
  14. Unit 14 History and Civilization Why did the great Maya cities fall silent, and how did shells become money? Tell the past clearly, from old habits to the order of events. Past tenses; used to  
  15. Unit 15 People and Lifestyle How do people keep their way of life when the world changes around them, from a girl in hiding to the last forest wanderers of Karnali? Present perfect and present perfect continuous  
  16. Unit 16 Games and Sports Why does the world’s oldest tennis tournament still play on grass, and how can sport be open to everyone, whatever their body? Question tags; negatives  
  17. Unit 17 Global Warming and Climate Change How do you prove the ice is disappearing to people who doubt it, and how sure can anyone be from clues alone? Future tenses; wh-questions; reported questions  
  18. Unit 18 Transportation and Communication How did two bicycle mechanics with no university degrees teach a machine to fly, and what does a ride really cost the person who gives it? Adjectives and adverbs  

Practice

How to use this book

Each unit follows a unit of CDC’s English textbook, in its order, with the textbook’s page numbers under its title. The reading texts aren’t reprinted here: read them in your textbook, then use the unit to understand them. Inside you’ll find:

  • The texts explained part by part: what each part says, how it is written, and the hard words, linked to English Vocabulary.
  • Every exercise answered: try it first; the answer stays hidden until you open it.
  • Grammar explained with examples, then more practice on English Grammar.
  • Writing tasks (letters, articles, stories, essays) with a plan, a model and the mistakes that cost marks.
  • Listening and speaking turned into things you can practise on your own.

A companion to your textbook by Science Playground, not published by or connected with CDC, and not a replacement for the textbook: study from the book your school uses, and where the two differ, follow your teacher. Every fact here has been checked against the textbook and other reliable sources, but these pages have not yet been reviewed by subject experts. If you find a mistake, please tell us.