Undervisningsbeskrivelse
Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
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Termin(er)
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2023/24 - 2025/26
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Institution
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Gladsaxe Gymnasium
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Fag og niveau
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Engelsk A
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Lærer(e)
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Louise Brandt Kærgaard
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Hold
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2023 EN/m (1m EN, 2m EN, 3m EN)
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Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
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Titel
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Different Worlds
The course explores the conflicts that arise when different cultures and worldviews clash.
Students are expected to improve their academic knowledge and skills in terms of:
- Differentiating between fiction and non-fiction.
- Using proper analysis tools when working with different genres.
- Basic language skills, oral as well as written skills.
Reading list:
- Rayda Jacobs: The Guilt (2001)
- Polly Borland: Fred Andrews (2000)
- Archie Weller: Going Home (1986)
- Dorothy Parker: Arrangement in Black and White (1927)
- LeAlan Jones: Our America (1996)
- Film: Precious, dir. Lee Daniels (2009)
Grammatik: Ordstilling, præsens og kongruens i Grammar Goodies (lærerudarbejdet materiale).
Omfang: ca. 45 normalsider
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Estimeret:
11,00 moduler
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10 moduler
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2
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Sproglig opmærksomhed: Formal & Informal Language
Students will gain knowledge of the linguistic differences between formal and informal language.
Readings:
- Flensted og Petersen: Box on Communicating (2006)
- Lærerudarbejdet materiale.
Grammatik: Præteritum i Grammar Goodies (lærerudarbejdet materiale).
Omfang: ca. 5 normalsider
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Omfang
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2,00 moduler
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2 moduler
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3
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Stephen King: The Body (VÆRK)
We will read Stephen King’s novella, The Body (1982) and watch the film adaptation (1986)
Omfang: ca. 200 normalsider
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Estimeret:
13,00 moduler
Dækker over:
12 moduler
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4
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Sproglig opmærksomhed: Coherence and Cohesion
The course helps students write more coherently and cohesively, by showing them how to
- Use paragraphs in their essays
- Use appropriate linking words between sentences
- Choose alternative words to avoid repetition and using the correct parts of speech
Grammatik: Substantivers pluralis i Grammar Goodies (lærerudarbejdet materiale).
Omfang: ca. 5 normalsider
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3,00 moduler
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2 moduler
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Deviants
Why do some people deviate from what is considered “normal behavior”? – and how do we define deviant behavior?
The texts in this course deal with people who are deviant, either by choice or because other people have labelled them so. When analyzing texts, we examine various reasons for people to (want to) deviate from the generally accepted norms and values of society. Two sociological theories will be discussed and drawn in: Durkheim’s Theory of Anomie and Howard Becker’s Labelling Theory.
Students are expected to improve their academic knowledge and skills in terms of:
- Textual analysis (fiction, non-fiction and film)
- Being able to refer to sociological theories in their textual analyses
- Being able to separate fact from opinion
- Being able to compare and contrast different texts and different opinions
Materials:
- The Milgram Experiment + preliminary definitions of social deviance
- Raymond Carver: Tell the Women We’re Going (1993)
- Two theories of social deviance: Durkheim and Howard Becker
- George Saunders: Adams (2004)
- Mick McKay: Every Parent’s Nightmare (2006) + The Jamie Bulger Email Petition
- Kate Nivison: Just Below the Surface (1993)
- Marilyn Manson: Columbine: Whose Fault Is It? (1999)
- Film: We Need To Talk About Kevin, dir. Lynne Ramsay (2012)
Grammatik: Substantivers pluralis, genitiv, adjektive,r adverbier og placering af adverbielle led i Grammar Goodies (lærerudarbejdet materiale).
Omfang: ca. 50 normalsider
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Omfang
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Estimeret:
10,00 moduler
Dækker over:
11 moduler
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Family - for Better or Worse...
How is the relationship between parents and their children portrayed in modern literature? What norms and values do we usually assign to the traditional nuclear family, and what happens if a family does not live up to these? During this course, we look at different child-parent relationships in order to investigate and discuss the meaning of concepts such as family ties and expectations, relationships and conflicts.
Students are expected to improve their academic knowledge and skills in terms of:
- Differentiating between fiction and non-fiction
- Using proper analysis tools when working with different genres
- Basic language skills, oral as well as written skills
Material:
- Modern Family (2009), dir. Jason Winer, pilot episode
- Charles Bukowski: Son of Satan (1982)
- Michael Richards: Just Like That (1987)
- Philip Larkin: This Be the Verse (1971)
- Michéle Roberts: Your Shoes (1993)
- Amy Chua: Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior (The Wall Street Journal, January 8, 2011)
- Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld: Why I love my strict Chinese mom (The New York Post, January 18, 2011)
- Little Miss Sunshine (2006), dir. Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
Grammatik: Genitiv og relative pronominer i Grammar Goodies (lærerudarbejdet materiale)
Omfang: ca. 40 normalsider
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Estimeret:
12,00 moduler
Dækker over:
13 moduler
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Sound & Sight - Music & Videos
This course explores the power and fascination of music and music videos in modern popular culture. Students are introduced to a useful vocabulary for making an analysis and interpretation of different music videos and their corresponding lyrics, focusing in particular on imagery and stylistic as well as cinematic devices.
As a theoretical framework Andrew Goodman’s music video theory will be discussed and drawn in.
Material:
- Amy Winehouse: “Back to Black” (Back to Black, 2006)
- Andrew Goodwin: Music Video Theory (lærerudarbejdet materiale)
- U2: ”Sunday Bloody Sunday” (War, 1983)
Grammatik: Verber, kongruens og verbets tider i Mette Hermann og Poul Tornøe: Getting Started (2018)
Omfang: ca. 10 normalsider
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6,00 moduler
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6 moduler
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The United States Presidential Election 2024
This course explores the use of rhetoric and argumentation in the United States’ Presidential Election 2024 with special emphasis on Democratic and Republican campaign videos. Students will be introduced to the American political system, the Republican and the Democratic parties as well as their respective candidates. Furthermore, students will gain knowledge about the rhetorical pentagon, modes of appeal and argumentation (Toulmin’s model of argumentation as well as argument tricks).
Material:
- Excerpts from Anne Mette Finderup og Agnete Fog: Worlds of English. Ibog, Systime (2022):
- Carta’s Corner: The Three Branches of Government
- Carta’s Corner: Political Parties
- Carta’s Corner Elections for National Offices
- Campaign video: “Kamala Harris Launches Her Campaign for President” (2024) https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=sHky_Xopyrw
- Campaign video: “60 days” (2024) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWrWGoTOZ34
- Kamala Harris’ Acceptance Speech at the Democratic National Convention (23. August 2024) – excerpt
Grammatik:
Grammatik: Do-omskrivning, ligefrem og omvendt ordstilling i Mette Hermann og Poul Tornøe: Getting Started (2018).
Omfang: ca. 40 normalsider
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Omfang
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Estimeret:
8,00 moduler
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5 moduler
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9
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower (VÆRK)
We read Stephen Chbosky’s novel, The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999) and watch the film adaptation (2012).
Material:
- Stephen Chbosky: The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999)
- Film: The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012), dir. Stephen Chbosky
Grammatik: Do-omskrivning, ligefrem og omvendt ordstilling, substantiver og genitiv i Mette Hermann og Poul Tornøe: Getting Started (2018).
Omfang: ca. 250 normalsider
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10,00 moduler
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10 moduler
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10
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Crime Fiction
The course explores crime fiction by looking at literature, TV and film. Students will acquire knowledge about crime fiction as a genre, focusing in particular on characters and stereotypes, setting and narrative technique.
By the end of the course, students should be able to:
- Account for the typical genre characteristics of crime fiction and comment on the narrative technique using academic terms such as whodunit, howcatchem, narrator and point of view, push/pull effect, suspense, surprise, reveal, red herring.
- Identify and characterise different stereotypes within the genre such as the classic detective who solves murder mysteries based on logic and deduction, the hardboiled American loner fighting injustice and corruption, and the psychologically complex – and often deranged – killer.
- Describe the typical settings of crime fiction and draw parallels between these and the real world
Material:
- Tine Rønlev Eriksen: Case Reopened (2017), pp.7-16
- Sherlock: a Study in Pink (2010), dir. Paul McGuigan
- Lee Child: “Guy Walks Into a Bar” (2009)
- Edgar Allen Poe: “The Tell-Tale Heart” (1843)
- Christine Poulson: “Don’t You Hate Having Two Heads”? (2006)
- Se7en (1995), dir. David Fincher
Grammatik: Adjektiver og adverbier, gradbøjning af adjektiver, substantiverede adjektiver og støtteord, placering af adverbielle led in Mette Hermann og Poul Thornøe: Getting Started (2018)
Omfang: ca. 40 normalsider
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12,00 moduler
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12 moduler
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The African-American Experience
During this course, we look African-American conditions of life through an investigation of three important events in American history: the time of slavery, The Civil Rights Movement and today’s Black Lives Matter movement. By reading a variety of genres (fiction, non-fiction and film), we outline some of the conflicts that continue to have an impact on the relationship between Black and White Americans in modern American society.
By the end of the course, students should be able to:
- account for the development in African-American conditions of life from the time of slavery to modern-day America
- analyse various genres of fiction and non-fiction, using the proper analysis tools
- improve their academic vocabularies by using the course keywords in their proper contexts
Course keywords: slavery, abolitionism, The Civil War and Reconstruction, Jim Crow Laws, “separate but equal”, The Civil Rights Movement, Black Lives Matter, white supremacy, superiority >< inferiority, police brutality, white privilege
Reading list:
- Bianca Erlich-Møller and Mathilde Thomsen: Black Voices (2016), pp.8-14, 60-63, 96-98, 140-144
- The Declaration of Independence (1776) – excerpt
- Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) – excerpt
- Billie Holliday: “Strange Fruit” (1943)
- Martin Luther King, Jr.: I Have a Dream (1963)
- Ralph Waldo Ellison: Invisible Man (1952) – excerpt
- Elizabeth Broadbent: “A Mother’s White Privilege” (2014)
- Kamala Harris: Remarks by Vice President Harris at the Derek Chauvin Trial for the Death of George Floyd (2021)
- Film: Fruitvale Station (2014), dir. Ryan Coogler
Grammatik: Placering af adverbielle led in Mette Hermann og Poul Thornøe: Getting Started (2018)
Omfang: ca. 50 normalsider
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13,00 moduler
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12 moduler
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Into the Wild
The concept of wilderness has become an essential part of American cultural identity. In this course we examine how the concept of wilderness was defined and interpreted in the USA in the 1800s and trace these ideas in modern American attitudes towards nature. The wilderness theme is studied through several different genres: short story, article, film and pictorial art. The theoretical framework is based on an excerpt from Roderick Nash’s study: Wilderness and the American Mind (1973).
Students are expected to be able to account for Nash’s definition of wilderness as well as to relate the various texts to his ideas.
Readings:
- Ernest Hemingway: Three Shots (1922)
- Theoretical background: Roderick Nash: Wilderness Defined (1967)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne: Young Goodman Brown (1835)
- Theoretical background: Roderick Nash: A Wilderness Condition + The American Wilderness (1967)
- American landscape paintings by Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Cole, George Innes and Thomas Moran
- Film: Into the Wild (2007), dir. Sean Penn
Grammatik: Pronominer i Mette Hermann og Poul Tornøe: Getting Started (2018).
Omfang: ca. 50 normalsider
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10,00 moduler
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11 moduler
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Urban Life
This course explores the social and human consequences of urban life by looking at the city as a form of mental landscape in which modern man must learn to navigate. Students are introduced to two contrasting approaches to urban life made by sociologists Louis Wirth and Anthony Giddens. The subsequent readings (fiction, non-fiction and film) primarily focus on New York City and London.
By the end of the course students should be able to compare and contrast the sociological theories as well as determine and argue whether a given text reflects the theory of either Wirth or Giddens.
Keywords: urbanization, the melting pot theory, the salad bowl theory, assimilation, integration, segregation, alienation, homogeneous/heterogeneous, immunize
Readings:
- Giles Coren: “The idea the cities are no longer viable is not a new one” in: Time Out London (2014)
- Louis Wirth: Urbanism as a Way of Life - excerpt (1938)
- Film: Crash, dir. Paul Haggis (2004)
- Anthony Giddens: “Cities and Urban Spaces” in: Sociology (2001)
- Metropole poetry:
Walt Whitman: “City of Orgies” (1867)
Ezra Pound: “In a station of the Metro” (1927)
Suzanne Vega: “Tom’s Diner” (1983)
William Wordsworth: “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge” (1802)
- Vivian Gornick: “A Ride on the New York Subway” in: The Village Voice (1972)
- Brett Easton Ellis: “Tuesday” in: American Psycho (1991)
- Charles Higson: “The Red Line” (1993)
Grammatik: Præpositioner, præposition + that, udvidet tid og verbalmønstre i Mette Hermann og Poul Tornøe: Getting Started (2018).
Omfang: ca. 60 normalsider
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The History of English
English began as the language of one nation, the UK, and it gained importance as the British Empire expanded. Today English serves as a global language, a “lingua franca”, which everybody is expected to know – even in the most remote parts of the world. During this course, students are introduced to the origin and subsequent spread of the English language as we explore the role of English and its varieties today. By the end of the course, students should have developed an understanding of the connection between language and identity.
Keywords: The history of the English language: Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and Modern English, standard English and varieties, English as a lingua franca
Readings:
Excerpts from Anne Mette Finderup og Agnete Fog: Worlds of English (2022). Systime.
- Old English Before 1066
- Middle English (1066 – c. 1470): A Trilingual Nation
- Early Modern English (1476 – 1800)
- Modern English from 1800
- Global English
- English as a Lingua Franca
Grammatik: Udvidet tid og verbalmønstre i Mette Hermann og Poul Tornøe: Getting Started (2018).
Omfang: ca. 15 normalsider
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4,00 moduler
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3 moduler
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Shakespeare
This course is an introduction to Shakespeare: his time and his works. Special emphasis is given to Macbeth, including Rupert Goold’s BBC production from 2011.
After completing the course, students will have knowledge about:
- The Renaissance: life in Elizabethan England and worldview
- Elizabethan theatre and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
- Shakespeare’s works: sonnets and plays
- Characteristics of Shakespeare’s language (vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, stylistic devices)
- Shakespeare’s themes
- In the sonnets: love
- In the plays: life and death, good and evil, vices and virtue, the tragic hero, fate
Material:
- Sonnet 18
- Howard Moss: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? (1976)
- Romeo and Juliet: Act II, scene 1 + Act V, scene 3
- Macbeth:
- Act I, scene 1
- Act I, scene 5
- Act II, scene 1 (the Dagger Scene)
- Act III, scene 4 (the Banquet Scene)
- Act V, scene 1 (the Sleepwalking Scene)
Omfang: ca. 90 normalsider
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12,00 moduler
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The Horror of War
This course investigates the horrific nature of war.
Students will gain an insight into 20th and 21st century war experiences and attitudes to war through different genres (fiction, non-fiction and film). The readings reflect various ideological and psychological reasons for going to war, but also focus on the physical and mental consequences of being a soldier.
Materials:
- Sonne og Wiecker: Warriors (2024). Praxis – excerpts
- Gerry Abbott: “Casualty” (2010)
- John Lennon: “Imagine” (1971)
World War I:
- Rupert Brooke: “The Soldier” (1914)
- Siegfred Sasoon: “Suicide in the Trenches” (1918)
- Wilfred Owen: “Anthem for Doomed Youth” (1920)
World War II:
- King George VI: "With God’s Help, We Shall Prevail" (Sept. 3, 1939)
The Vietnam War:
- Tim O’Brien: “The Man I Killed” (1990)
The Iraq War:
- Paul Harris: “A picture made him a hero. Then his life fell apart” (The Observer, 2nd July 2006)
- The Hurt Locker (2008), dir. Kathryn Bigelow
Drone Warfare:
- Dave Phillipps: “The Unseen Scars of Those Who Kill Via Remote Control (The New York Times, 2022) – excerpt
Grammatik: Udvidet tid, verbalmønstre og aktiv >< passiv i Mette Hermann og Poul Tornøe: Getting Started (2018).
Omfang: ca. 55 normalsider
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12,00 moduler
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11 moduler
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The British Empire: Colonialism and Beyond
This course provides a general introduction to historical, cultural and social aspects of British imperialism and colonialism. By reading a variety of texts (novel, short story, poetry, essay, short film and speech) we investigate the worldviews of British imperialism while putting these into perspective with more recent post-colonial issues arising in the shadow of the Empire.
Keywords: The British Empire, imperialism, colonialism, post-colonialism, superiority >< inferiority, the Orient >< the Occident, English as a Lingua Franca, multiculturalism, racism
Readings:
- James Thomson: Rule Britannia (1740)
- The British Empire – an Overview: https://www.britishempire.co.uk/
- Rudyard Kipling: The White Man’s Burden (1899)
- George Orwell: Shooting an Elephant (1936)
- George Orwell: Burmese Days (1934) – excerpt
- Andrea Levy: This is My England (2000)
- Hanif Kureishi: My Son the Fanatic (1997)
- The Long Goodbye (2020), dir. Aneil Karia
- Riz Ahmed: Where You From (2020)
- Robin Cook: Chicken Tikka Malasa Speech (2001)
Omfang: ca. 50 normalsider
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12,00 moduler
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When Less Is More: Raymond Carver and Minimalism
This course is an introduction to the authorship of American author, Raymond Carver. Special emphasis will be put on the minimalistic style of writing as well as characteristic themes.
Reading list:
Raymond Carver: “Luck” (1983) + “Balsa Wood” (1986)
Raymond Carver: “Popular Mechanics” (1981)
Interview with Raymond Carver: “Stories Don’t Come Out of Thin Air” (1990)
Raymond Carver: “They’re Not Your Husband” (1976)
Raymond Carver: “Neighbors” (1976)
Omfang: ca. 25 normalsider
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6,00 moduler
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5 moduler
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