English Grade 9

The English language in Ethiopia serves more as the medium of instruction in schools and universities. It plays a significant role in students’ academic life. The grade 9 English Textbook is developed to satisfy the students’ English language needs at the level and to serve them as a backdrop for their future academic career as they use the language for academic purposes.  

The minimum learning competencies (MLCs) expected of students are indicated in the Grade 9 English language Syllabus, and therefore, the language input as well as activities they perform are developed based on the MLC identified by the syllabus designers. The learning outcomes expected of students are built upon the MLC and constitute listening to a variety of texts at different levels (surface and deeper levels), interacting in English, reading and comprehending, analyzing, synthesizing, evaluating and interpreting ideas visa-vis their environment, getting meanings of words through different strategies, and mastery of selected grammatical elements appropriate to the level. The outcomes also embrace students’ development of sentence, paragraph and essay levels writing. The students are expected to write accurate sentences, paragraphs, and essays with some level of fluency as they should balance accuracy and fluency in their use of the language.