Ethiopian Grade 9 New Curriculum English For Ethiopia Student TextBook contains 10 chapters. Each unit integrates the four language skills, listening, speaking, reading, and writing — along with grammar and vocabulary development. The themes are practical and encourage students to reflect on everyday life, social issues, and global developments, preparing them to communicate effectively in both academic and real-world contexts.
Unit 1: Living in Urban Areas
Explores life in cities, focusing on opportunities and challenges. Includes discussions, readings, and writing tasks related to urbanization.
Unit 2: Study Skills
Equips students with effective strategies for learning, such as note-taking, summarizing, and organizing ideas to improve academic performance.
Unit 3: Traffic Accident
Introduces vocabulary and dialogues around road safety. Students analyze causes and solutions to traffic-related issues through reading and group work.
Unit 4: National Parks
Focuses on environmental awareness, highlighting Ethiopia’s natural reserves and encouraging conversation and descriptive writing.
Unit 5: Horticulture
Covers the basics of plant cultivation, providing informative texts and exercises that connect agriculture with sustainable living.
Unit 6: Poverty in Ethiopia
Promotes critical thinking about social inequality. Students read about poverty-related challenges and practice persuasive writing and discussion.
Unit 7: Community Services
Emphasizes civic responsibility, encouraging learners to read and write about volunteering, charity, and communal problem-solving.
Unit 8: Communicable Diseases
Addresses public health topics such as prevention and awareness of infectious diseases, integrating listening activities and informative writing.
Unit 9: Fairness and Equity
Engages students in moral and ethical discussions, promoting inclusive values through reading comprehension and debate activities.
Unit 10: The Internet
Highlights digital literacy and online communication. Students explore both benefits and risks of the internet through listening, research, and writing tasks.