ANNIE BESANT SCHOOL

WORKSHEET AND PAPER PATTERN (Term-2) 2022-23

CLASS IX
Subject: English Language and Literature
I Unseen Passage(Factual)
1. Tourism, for millennia, has been a perpetual industry. Though initially unorganized and highly
chaotic, it retained a place in each nook of history. The present tourism scenario in India is on the
rise, with destinations grabbing eyeballs globally and domestically. Being the youngest nation in
the world, it’s no wonder that the aggregate of ‘millennials’ spends more time and money, and
money on travel than previous generations. This could be huge for the economy of various states
that rely majorly on tourism, if only it were sustainable.
2. Unsustainability prevails throughout the country, in states with higher domestic tourist inflow
than foreign. The Dev Bhoomi is a prime example. No matter how popular, Uttarakhand tourism is
loop-holed through and through.
3. Approx 80% of tourist arrive to complete the infrastructure of the Dham Yatra. Such unchecked
tourism puts immense pressure on natural and infrastructure facilities. The extreme shortage of
accommodation in correspondence with thriving footfalls has led to the construction of illegal
buildings, the majority of which exist on riverbanks. With an increasing number of tourists coming
in through private vehicles to save “transportation money”, pollution levels are rising, increasing
temperatures in return. With unlawful construction and pollution on riverbanks, the Ganges could
cause direct harm to local species in Rishikesh and Haridwar.
4. Around 10,000 hilly areas are being convened for the construction of roads alone. We know roads
are basic infrastructure but the Forest Conservation Act requires a project developer to plant trees
in a non-forest/ degraded forest area equal to or twice the trees, it’s clearing respectively, to
compensate which does not happen.
5. The India State of Forest Report illustrates how Uttarakhand is losing its forest cover, which has
indirect development through tourism, at its core. The government and private tour operators may
think they can deny allegations but the charts speak for themselves.
6. We, as consumers of the tourism industry, hold the power to cause a massive stir in this context.
According to research conducted, Uttarakhand’s mass tourism comprises people between 25-35
years of age, with higher education, out with either family or friends and enough average income to
contribute to the local economy.
7. Regardless of what the figures say, if we look forward to sustainable tourism being the target
market, it leaves little choice to the rest of the hierarchy. Consciously Making efforts to be
responsible tourists and thinking of how to provide for the local. Community/ environment in a
way-tiny or big, could act as a catalyst in obliterating this ruckus due to ignorance. After all, there
can only ever be seven deadly sins and wanderlust isn’t one of them.

i) Infer one consequence, based on your understanding of the passage, that highlights the result of
the pressures of a large number of tourists.

ii) Select the appropriate option to fill in the blank.

From paragraph 1 we can infer that ………………is the main cause for putting pressure on
infrastructural and natural resources.
1. Unchecked tourism 2. Illegal construction
3. Pollution 4. Increasing temperatures 5. Deforestation
a) 1,2 and 3 b) 2 and 3 c) Only 1 d) 2 and 4

iii) Complete the following analogy correctly with a word/phrase from paragraph 6
Movie : Viewers :: Product :…Consumers………..

iv) Select the correct option to complete the following sentences.

The forest Conservation Act vouches for……………………….
a) the preservation of local species of flora and fauna
b) plantation of trees in a non forest/ degraded forest area equal to or twice the tress the trees it’s
clearing
c) construction only in the non-forest or degraded forest area.
d) All of the above

v) According to the passage, select the chart that is the correct depiction of the relation between
incoming tourists and the temperature of the region.

a) option 1 b) option 2 c) option 3 d) None of these

vi) Fill in the blank by selecting the correct option.

The unchecked tourism in Uttarakhand over the last few years has
showed……………………..effects on the environment and infrastructure of the place.
a) positive b) beneficial c) detrimental d) encouraging

vii) Substitute the word ‘illegal’ with one word similar in meaning , in the following sentence from
paragraph 3.
The extreme shortage of accommodation in correspondence with thriving footfalls has led to the
construction of illegal buildings, the majority of which exist on riverbanks.

viii) List any two reasons to explain why unsustainability prevails in the Dev Bhoomi.
1. ……Unchecked number of tourists causing stress on infrastructure.………………………..
2. ……Self- transportation causes pollution and raises the temprature……………………….

ix) What do the tourist statistics show in the region of Uttarakhand?

x) Based on your understanding of the passage, choose the option that lists the result of the pressures
of a large number of tourists.
a) Illegal infrastructural constructions b) Higher education Deforestation
c) Higher education Rise in pollution d) Higher education Increase in local economy

II Answer the following questions (40-50 words)

Book Name: Beehive
Q.1 What happen to the doctor while he was sitting in his chair?
Q.2 Write about different decisions did the doctor make about marriage?
Q.3 Why was Kezia afraid of her father?
Q.4 How did Kezia’s grandmother encourages her?
Q.5 What does the poet like to do when it rains?
Q.6 Is the poet now a child? Is his mother still alive?
Q.7 Why can’t be hacking and chopping alone kill a tree?
Q.8 How does Gerrard make a fool of the intruder and have him arrested?
Q.9 What estimate do you form of Gerrard’s character from the play “If I were you”.
Q.10 What was the great surprise?
Q.11 Write about the flute seller at the square of Kathmandu?
Q.12 Write the common features we all have according to poet?
Q.13 How does she describe her feelings at the summit of Everest?
Q.14 Why did Santosh’s parents agree to pay for her schooling in Delhi?
Q.15 What mental qualities of Santosh are brought into light by this incident?
Q.16 How is Maria’s achievement significant?
Q.17 How did Abdul Kalam earn his first wages?
Q.18 What he hears and sees there and its effort on him?
Q.19 How does the poet contrast the Innisfree with where he stands?
Q.20 How does the poet miss the Isle of Innisfree?
Q.21 What is legend?
Q.22 How did Saint Peter punish the selfish woman?
Q.23 How did Einstein react to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Q.24 Why does the world remember Einstein as a world citizen?
Q.25 What did Einstein call his desk drawer at the patent office? Why?
Q.26 Why did Einstein react to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Q.27 What two important and earth shaking decision did the doctor take while he was looking into the
mirror?
Q.28 What happen to the doctor while he was sitting in his chair?
Q.29 What is the opinion about the smile of the writer?
Q.30 Why was Kezia afraid of her father?
Q.31 Explain Kezia’s father routine.
Q.32 How does Kezia begin to see her father as a human being who needs her sympathy?
Q.33 What does poet like to do when it rains?
Q.34 How does the poet inspire the weak people?
Q.35 Write the central theme of the poem ‘Wind’. Write an imaginary talk between wind and a man.
Q.36 What should we do to make friendship with the wind?
Q.37 Why did Bismillah Khan play the Shehnai on 15 August 1947?
Q.38 Jusitfy that during the crisis how presence mind helps?
Moments

Q.39 What are the things the child sees on his way to the fair? Why does he lag behind ? Why does he
move on without waiting for an answer?
Q.40 When does the lost child realise that he has lost his way? How have his anxiety and insecurity been
described?
Q.41 How is Iswaran an asset to Mahendra?
Q.42 Why does the author say “Toto was not the sort of pet we could keep for a long”?
Q. 43 Explain the way Toto take a bath?
Q.44How does Iswaran describe the uprooted tree?
Q.45How does the guru manage to save his disciple life?
.Q46 How was Behrman’s achievement as a masterpiece?
Q.47 What actions of the schoolmates change the author’s understanding of life and people and comfort
him emotionally? How does his loneliness vanish and how does he start participating in life?
Q.48 Write the central idea of the poem The road not taken.

III Answer the following questions (100-120 words)

Beehive

Q.1 Write the character sketch of the doctor?

Q.2 Justify the title of the story “The snake and the mirror”.
Q.3 How does Kezia begin to see her father as a human being who needs her sympathy?
Q.4 Kezia’s effort to please her father greatly displeased him. How did this happen?
Q.5 Write the theme of the poem ‘On Killing a tree”
Q.6 Justify that during situations of crisis, one’s presence of mind and the attitude of not going up are the
most useful qualities.
Q.7 Write the difference between the Baudhnath shrine and the Pashupatinath temple.
Q.8 Write the central idea of the poem ‘No Men are foreign’.
Q.9 How hatred and misdeed pollute our own earth?
Q.10 How Santosh begin to climb mountain?
Q.11 How mental toughness helps to pursue her dream?
Q.12 What qualities in Santosh Yadav helped her get into the record books both times she conqured Mt.
Everest?
Q.13 Throw some light in the life of Abdul Kalam’s life?
Q.14 Why did Abdul Kalam want to leave Rameshwaram?
Q.15 Why do you think the poet is so attached to Innisfree?
Q.16 Why do you think the poet is so attached to Innisfree?
Q.17 What did Saint Peter ask the old lady for?What was the lady’s reaction?
Q.18 How did Einstein react to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Q.19 Albert Einstein is called a scientific genius.Write down his achievements and comment on his
genius?
Q.20 Einstein was deeply shaken by the extent of the destruction. What kind of destruction had shaken
Einstein?
Q.21 Justify the title of the story ‘The snake and the mirror’.
Q.22 Write the character sketch of the doctor?
Q.23 Kezia’s effort to please her father greatly displeased him. How did this happen?
Q.24 How does Kezia begin to see her father as a human being who needs her sympathy?
Q.25 What are the main feature of mechanical teachers?
Q.26 Which of the two roads did the poet choose and why?
Q.27 What inspiration do you get from the poem the road not taken.
Q.28 What message do you get from the poem wind.
Q.29 How does Evelyn hear music?
Q.30 How is a shehnai different from a Pungi?
Q.31What should we do to make friend ship with the wind?
Q.32 What pleasure does one gain from the rain falling on the roof?
Q.33 Why the poet is attached with the Lake Isle of Innisfree?
Q.34 Who inspired Evelyn to learn music and How?
Q.35 How can you say that Bismillah Khan was true Hindustani?
Q.36 How does poet inspires the weak people?
Q.37 Write the central idea of the poem.
Moments

Q.38 Write the character sketch of the Iswaran.

Q.39 How Guru was wiser than his disciple? Explain on basis of the chapter .
Q.40 How the story of tusker was narrated by Iswaran?
Q.41 Explain in detail about the uprooted tree related story explained by Iswaran?
Q.42 How lost child lost interest in worldly affairs? Write an imaginary talk between mother and son
when he demanded toys from her?
Q.43 Why does the Happy Prince donate Ruby and Sapphire?
Q.44 Why did the swallow not leave the Prince and go Egypt?
Q.45 What are the precious things mentioned in the story? Why are they precious?
Q.46 What does the swallow see when it flies over the cities?
Q.47 Write the character sketch of the Happy Prince.
Q.48 Good deeds always make one happy? Explain with reference to the lesson ‘Happy Prince’.
Q.49 The Guru was a wise man. How does the story “ In the kingdom of fools” Reflect it?
Q.50 Explain Sue’s role in Johnsy’s life?
Q.51 Do you think Behrman was right in sacrificing his life? Why?
Q.52 Why does writer broke down in tears?
Q.53 Why was writer deeply embarrassed?
Q.54 Justify the title of the story ‘A house is not a home?
Q.55 Compare the characters of Lushkoff and Sergie?
Q.56 What are the things the child sees on his way to the fair? Why does he lag behind?
Q.57 Write the proverb with an explanation based on the chapter ‘The Beggar’.
Q.58 Write Olga’s role in the life of Sergie.
IV Grammar Practice
Fill in the blank by choosing the correct option to complete the sentence.
i) A pair of trousers ………………..required.
a) have been b) are c) is d) were
ii) Read the conversation and complete the paragraph
Arun: When will you come back home?
Karan: I can not say. My leave application is still pending.
Arun asked Karan when he would come back home. Karan told him that he could not say as his
…APPLICATION WAS STILL PENDING……………….
iii) Select the correct option to fill in the blank.
She never …………..do this when she was here.
a) need b) should c) have to d) used to
iv) Identify the error and supply the correction in the given sentences.
Sudha gives his father full credit for having infused in her the confidence to try out anything she
wanted in life.
v) Complete the given narrative, by filling in the blank with the correct option.
By the time we reach the school the bell………………………….
a) will be ringing b) will have rung c) would have been ringing d) would have rung
vi) The Committee …………….issued its report. ( are /have/ has/have been)
vii) The committee ……………divided on one minor point.(are/is was/has)
viii) Read the conversation given below and complete the paragraph that follows
Tanu: When are you leaving for Mumbai?
Ashu: I will leave immediately after the examination.
Ashu went to the school library to study. There he met Tanu. Tanu asked
Ashu……………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………………………………………………………………….Ashu
replied that he would leave immediately after the examination.
Ans. When he was leaving for Mumbai.
ix) Identify the error in the given sentence and supply the correction.
Tommy looked on her with very superior eyes because she knew little about the school of old time.
Ans at
x) Somil shares some information, with Rajiv about his first term Result. Report Rajiv’s question
Did you get the first rank or the second rank?
Ans. Rajiv asked Somil if he had got first rank or second rank.
xi) Fill in the blank in the sentence given below by choosing the most appropriate options from
the one that follows.
Talk to ………………….boy individually.
a) few b) these c) some d) each

xii Identify the error on a restaurant hoarding and supply the correction for the following
facilities.

Cheap Restaurant Taj Road Agra

We offers massive discount for children and ladies on every Sunday.

Use the given format for your response

error correction

xiii) Convert the conversation from direct to indirect

Rahul: Where are you going?
Raman : I am going USA. Are you coming with me?

Rahu asked Raman……………………………………………….Raman

replied…………………….and later asked…………………………………

V Writing Skills
Q.1 Write a short paragraph on any of the famous personality given in your text book
Q.2 Write a short paragraph on Narendra Modi
Q.3 Write a short paragraph on any place you have ever visited.
Q.4 Write a Diary Entry about your experience of a concert which you attended in about 100-150 words.
Q.5 Write a story with a moral on the Given clues:
a) Once upon a time at night your friend suddenly called you.
b) One day, I was sitting on a bench at a railway station,waiting for a train. Aboy tried to cross the rails. He
didn’t see that a train………………….
Note: Do practice of grammar and writing skill from your book Holy Faith.

VI Reference to the context

I Read the passage and answer the following questions

a) Rush hour crowds jostle for position on the underground train platform. A slight girl, looking younger
than her seventeen years, was nervous yet excited as she felt the vibrations of the approaching train.It was
her first day at the prestigious Royal Academy of Music and daunting enough for any teenager fresh from a
Scottish farm.
Q.1 Who is the girl in above lines?
Q.2 Where was she going?
Q.3 How old she was?
Q.4 Find the word from the extract that means ‘frighening’
Q.5 Why was she nervous?

b) Two roads diverged in yellow wood

And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller,Long I stood
And locked down once as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth

Q.1 Write the rhyming scheme of the stanza.

Q.2 Where did the roads diverge?
Q.3 Was the traveler feeling sorry? Why?
Q.4 What does ‘yellow wood’ stand for?
Q.5 Where is the poet standing
Q.6 Find a word from the extract that means ‘separated’
Paper Pattern
Section A
Reading Skills
Reading Comprehension through Unseen Passage 20 Marks
I. Discursive passage (10 marks)
II. Case-based passage (with visual input- statistical data, chart etc.) (10 marks)
Multiple Choice Questions / Objective Type Questions will be asked to assess inference, analysis,
interpretation,evaluation and vocabulary.
Section B
III Grammar 10 Marks
Tenses
Modals
Subject – verb concord
Reported speech
o Commands and requests
o Statements
o Questions
o Determiners
IV Creative Writing Skills 10 marks
This section will have short as well as long writing tasks including compositions.
I. Writing a Descriptive Paragraph (word limit 100-120 words) on a person/event/situation
basedon visual or verbal cue/s. 5 marks
II. Writing a Diary Entry/ Story on a given title in 100-120 words. 5 marks
Section C
V. Reference to the Context
I. One extract out of two from Drama / Prose.
II. One extract out of two from poetry. (5+5 = 10 Marks)
Multiple Choice Questions / Objective Type Questions
VI. Short & Long Answer Questions
I. Four out of Five Short Answer Type Questions to be answered in 40-50 words from the book
BEEHIVE. 4x3=12 marks
II. Two out of Three Short Answer Type Questions to be answered in 40-50 words from the book
MOMENTS. 2x3=6 marks
III. One out of two Long Answer Type Questions from BEEHIVE to be answered in about 100-
120 words 6 marks
IV. One out of two Long Answer Type Questions from MOMENTS in about 100-120 words. 6
marks
Syllabus
Beehive
Prose
1. The Fun They Had
2. The Sound of Music
3. The Little Girl
4. A Truly Beautiful Mind
5. The Snake and the Mirror
6. My Childhood
7. Reach For The Top
8. Kathmandu
9. If I were You
Poems-
1. The Road Not taken
2. Wind
3. Rain on The Roof
4. The Lake Isle of Innisfree
5. A Legend of The Northland
6. No Men Are Foreign
7. On killing a tree
8. A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
Moments
1. The Lost Child
2. The adventures of Toto
3. Iswaran the Storyteller
4. In the kingdom of fools
5. The Happy Prince
6. The Last Leaf
7. A House is not a Home
8. The Beggar

NOTE: Each chapter carries equal weightage either 3 marks or 6 marks questions will be included apart
from this seen passage or seen poem either from beehive or moments will be taken.