English (Compulsory) Class 9 Chapter 11: Comprehension 3: Nature, Environment, Travel, Drugs Education and Life Stories

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• Class 9
• English (Compulsory)
• Unit 11
• Book pages Class 9 book U6, U8, U9, U11 (themes only)
• FBISE SSC-I

Chapter summary

This unit covers passages on nature, the environment, travel and tourism, drugs education and life stories. Life-story passages (biography and autobiography) and problem-solution passages come up often. The Q2 skills stay the same: summary and title (6 marks) and four 3-mark parts.

Topics in this chapter

• Discuss how authors use language, including figurative language, and the impact on the reader
• Analyse that a text is a group of paragraphs that develop the main idea
• Analyse organisational patterns: cause-effect, problem-solution, sequence, comparison
• Provide an objective summary of fiction and poetry texts
• Use reading strategies to explore layers of meaning, biases and opinions
• Distinguish cause from effect, fact from opinion and generalisations from evidence
• Skim and scan to find main points, writer's purpose and audience; infer the theme
• Examine a central idea and its development; provide an objective summary
• Summarise and make inferences from context, viewpoint and implied information
• Analyse biographies and autobiographies
• Cite textual evidence to support analysis and inferences
• Clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words using context
• Mixed topics

Sample questions

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1. Read the paragraph.
   "Honeybees visit thousands of flowers every day. While they collect sweet nectar, pollen sticks to their legs and falls onto other flowers. This helps plants to make seeds and fruit. Without bees, many of our foods would become scarce."
   What is the main idea of the paragraph?
   1. Bees prefer sweet food to almost all other kinds of food.
   2. Flowers grow only in the summer.
   3. Honey is the most useful food for people.
   4. Bees help plants to produce seeds and fruit.
2. A precis is different from a paraphrase because a precis
   1. is longer than the original.
   2. changes the meaning of the original.
   3. uses only the writer's exact sentences.
   4. is much shorter than the original.
3. "Cutting down forests leads to soil erosion."
   Which is the effect?
   1. Cutting down forests
   2. The planting of trees
   3. Growth of grass
   4. Soil erosion

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English (Compulsory) tests reading, writing, grammar and comprehension. Read a little every day, learn the formats of letters and essays, and practise unseen passages.