The Ethiopian Grade 9 Old Curriculum English Textbook contains 12 units, each followed by periodic revision sections. It is structured to progressively build English proficiency through real-life communication, integrated skills, and contextual grammar. Each unit includes vocabulary development, grammar focus, reading texts, listening tasks, writing activities, and oral interaction.
Unit 1: Learning to Learn
This unit encourages students to reflect on how they learn best. They practice the present simple tense, use question words, and participate in activities such as making a “fortune teller,” following instructions, and matching people to nationalities. Emphasis is placed on classroom English, learning strategies, and pronunciation.
Unit 2: Places to Visit
Students explore tourism and geography in Ethiopia. Activities include preparing a quiz about Ethiopia, listening to a passage about holiday destinations, describing photographs, and giving directions. Vocabulary includes tourist spots and polite question forms for asking directions.
Unit 3: Hobbies and Crafts
This unit focuses on free time activities and creative hobbies. Students read about an Arts and Crafts Club, conduct a hobby survey, and use collocations like do/make. Grammar practice includes adverbs of frequency and quantifiers such as all, most, none, a few.
Revision 1 (Units 1–3)
Reinforces memory strategies, travel-related vocabulary, hobby expressions, present simple usage, and basic sentence construction through review exercises and group tasks.
Unit 4: Food for Health
Learners study nutrition, food groups, and healthy eating habits. Tasks include completing a food quiz, creating a leaflet about nutrition, classifying foods in a pyramid, and discussing food proverbs. The unit integrates reading, writing, and discussion skills around health.
Unit 5: HIV and AIDS
This health-awareness unit teaches factual and emotional understanding of HIV/AIDS. Students read a victim’s story, write statistics-based sentences, create a poster, and express sympathy. Grammar includes modal verbs (must, need, have to) and the zero conditional for giving advice.
Unit 6: Media, TV, and Radio
Students discuss mass media, identify types of media in Ethiopia, and write a short biography of a famous person. Grammar focus includes comparatives and sentence joining. Speaking and listening tasks involve evaluating fake biographies and expressing personal opinions.
Revision 2 (Units 4–6)
Consolidates content on health, food, and media. Students complete grammar drills, vocabulary games, and short writing tasks that revisit key structures and topics.
Unit 7: Cities of the Future
This unit examines urban life and future development. Activities include comparing cities, writing about hometowns, and using linking words. Students also analyze a poem about aging and practice sentence stress for spoken fluency.
Unit 8: Money and Finance
Students learn about banking, entrepreneurship, and economic literacy. Activities include defining financial terms, role-playing bank transactions, matching currencies to countries, and discussing the role of money in life. Grammar includes verb patterns and recognizing fact vs opinion.
Unit 9: People and Traditional Culture
This unit explores Ethiopian and African traditions. Students discuss cultural festivals, participate in a class debate, write informal letters, and study sequencing words and adverbs of manner. Listening focuses on folk dances and traditional practices.
Revision 3 (Units 7–9)
Reviews grammar (e.g. verb patterns, sequencing), reading skills, writing structures, and oral expression on cities, economy, and culture.
Unit 10: Newspapers and Magazines
Students study current events and media language. Activities include analyzing a news report, writing a paragraph about a robbery, and playing Bingo with newspaper vocabulary. Grammar practice focuses on pronouns like all, every, both, either, neither, and stress in complex words.
Unit 11: Endangered Animals
This unit builds environmental awareness. Students classify animals, describe endangered species, and use past continuous and present perfect tenses. Expressions and conjunctions are used to describe cause and effect, and comparisons are made using animal idioms.
Unit 12: Stigma and Discrimination
Focused on social issues, this final unit promotes empathy and inclusion. Students listen to a story about an orphan, discuss disability and stigma, and write a guided essay. Grammar includes present perfect continuous, articles, and demonstratives (there is / there are), plus pronunciation of long words.
Revision 4 (Units 10–12)
Final revision covers media, environmental awareness, and social responsibility. Students apply grammar, vocabulary, and writing techniques in review games, practice tests, and reflection discussions.
