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Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2023/24 - 2025/26
Institution X - EUC NORD
Fag og niveau Engelsk A
Lærer(e) Rikke Hove Knudsen
Hold h23hhxc_EngelskA (h23hhxc_1c_EngelskA, h23hhxc_2c_EngelskA, h23hhxc_3c_EngelskA)

Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 Faglige opslagsværker og tilladte hjælpemidler
Titel 2 Global English
Titel 3 Area study USA: American identity
Titel 4 Company Profile: Nike
Titel 5 Area study UK: Multicultural Britain (eksamen)
Titel 6 US presidential election
Titel 7 Dystopian narratives (eksamen)
Titel 8 CSR (miniforløb)
Titel 9 Welcome to London!
Titel 10 Black voices (eksamen)
Titel 11 Værklæsning. The Hate U Give (eksamen)
Titel 12 Incredible India (eksamen)

Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1 Faglige opslagsværker og tilladte hjælpemidler

I-bøger:
o Skriftlig Eksamen i Engelsk: https://skriftligeksameniengelskhhx.systime.dk/?id=166
o The English Handbook: https://theenglishhandbook.systime.dk/index.php?id=1

Online ordbøger:
o Gyldendals Røde Ordbøger: https://ordbog.gyldendal.dk/
o Ordbogen.com: https://www.ordbogen.com/da/
o Merriam-Webster: https://www.merriam-webster.com/
o Oxford dictionary: https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/
o Cambridge Dictionary: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/

Grammatikbøger:
o Engelsk Grammatik med Synonymer
o Engram (MinLæring)
o Evt. grammatikkompendiet fra HHX1.


Alle dokumenter fra OneNote og Lectio samt dokumenter i udprint må anvendes, f.eks. gamle kompendier, tekster, noter, PowerPoint osv.


Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 260 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 2 Global English

Forløbet har fokus på det engelske sprogs udvikling og tilføjelse af låneord og idio-mer. Hernæst har fokus været på lingua franca, pidgin English, creole English og forskelle mellem amerikansk og britisk engelsk.  

English in the World: A very brief history of a global language (OpenLearn, 2021)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTOsxh4OcFU

Old English before 1066 (Worlds of English, 2022)

Middle English, 1066 – ca 1470 – A Trilingual Nation (Worlds of English, 2022)

Early Modern English, 1476-1800 (Worlds of English, 2022)

Modern English (Worlds of English, 2022)

American English (Worlds of English, 2022)

English as lingua franca (The English Handbook, Systime) https://theenglishhandbook.systime.dk/index.php?id=166

Pidgin - West African lingua franca (BBC, 16 November 2016)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-38000387?fbclid=IwAR2aeNCUbERBBzRN7IsUjkiZOgpjTXGe7v6yjpk2gi5gG2J8foSowFECoFw


Excerpt from Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer, 2002 (Worlds of English, 2022)

Movie: Outsourced by John Jeffcoat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI9x9cKpwHc


Supplerende

British English vs. American English
Indhold
Omfang Estimeret: 15,00 moduler
Dækker over: 10 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 3 Area study USA: American identity

Igennem dette forløb får eleverne kendskab til USA’s historie, hvor der mere specifikt fokuseres på amerikanske grundværdier og immigration.

Kernestof

Carta's Corner: The American Constitution from Worlds of English: https://worldsofenglish.systime.dk/?id=253

Immigration and Diversity, Mette Holm, Being American: Identity, Politics and Con-temporary, Society, Systime 2020 (9 pages) https://beingamerican.systime.dk/?id=137

Two Kinds by Amy Tan

Elon Musk to buy Twitter in $44 billion deal (CNN, 2022)
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/04/25/tech/elon-musk-twitter-sale-agreement/index.html (focus on free speech)

Poll: One year after SB 8, Texans express strong support for abortion rights (NPR, 2022) https://www.npr.org/2022/09/01/1120472842/poll-one-year-after-sb-8-texans-express-strong-support-for-abortion-rights


Supplerende materiale

Capitol Riots: https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/udland/da-trump-tilhaengere-stormede-kongressen-her-er-hvad-vi-ved-der-skete?fbclid=IwAR0S-Xq_BsqMSUA4xA2Bk8H_eJrNOhaGrlOVSCUvr6nBGmOSqlhaI9qXHHg#!/

USA map quiz: https://online.seterra.com/en/vgp/3003

Research on Republican and Democratic values based on: https://www.britannica.com/question/What-does-the-Democratic-Party-believe-in

Dokumentar:  This illegal American Life, 2013 (tilgås via CFU)

Gruppeopgave:

Eleverne har i grupper selv udvalgt politiske emner (fx gun rights og abortion rights) som skulle researches og debatteres i opponentgrupper.




Indhold
Omfang Estimeret: 22,00 moduler
Dækker over: 28 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 4 Company Profile: Nike



Kernestof

Nike Inc. A Growth Story (Nike.com)

Analyssi of Nike commercials:

- Find Your Greatness (2012)
- Winner Stays (2014)
- What are Girls Made of? (2017)
- What Will They Say About You? (2017)
- Dream Crazier (2019)
- For Once - don't do it (2020)
- You can't Stop Us (2020)

Nike's impact report: https://about.nike.com/en/mission/ (Focus: Nike's CSR policy)

Nike's diversity advert causing a backlash in Japan (BBC News, 2 December 2020
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-55140846


Skriftlig aflevering:

Argumentative essay on the pros and cons of Nike’s marketing strategy and Nike's choice of controversial issues.

The follwing sources have been used for the assignment:

The Guardian. Nike’s controversial Colin Kaepernick ad campaign its most divisive yet. September 4, 2018, viewed February 2021.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/sep/04/nike-controversial-colin-kaepernick-campaign-divisive

The Guardian. Nike releases full ad featuring Colin Kaepernick. September 7, 2018, viewed February 2021.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-grjIUWKoBA

CNBC/Nike. How Nike Turns Controversy Into Dollars. September 19, 2018, viewed February 2021.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvkf88eSTrI
Indhold
Omfang Estimeret: 13,00 moduler
Dækker over: 14 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 5 Area study UK: Multicultural Britain (eksamen)

I dette forløb arbejdes der med forskellige aspekter af britisk kultur, politik og sociale forhold. Kerneteksterne knytter sig til emnerne kolonihistorie og multikulturalisme.

Kernestof

Multicultural Britain a complx issue (Being British, Gyldendal, 2014)

How the British Ruled the World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frF33emgn5g

Shashi Tharoor interview: How British Colonialism 'destroyed' India (Channel 4 news, 2017) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1giYXrofZYo

The White Man’s Burden by Rudyard Kipling (1899) Worlds of English, Systime

Listen Mr Oxford don (by John Agard, 1985)

Where You from? by Riz Ahmed)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DmabQguml4

Brick Lane, chapter 3 (by Monica Ali in What’s Up, Britain?, Gyldendal, 2008)

Movie: Blinded by the Light (2019) directed by Gurinder Chadha

Nations and cultural differences in Britain (Being British, Gyldendal, 2014)


Supplerende materiale

Group assignment: Presentation on Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland focusing on cultural traits, a brief history of how the nation came to be a part of the UK and current political issues.

Fergal Keane: My family and the empire's complex legacy (BBC, 2020)
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-53322680

Aboriginal Australians 'still suffering effects of colonial past' (BBC, 2020)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-53436225
Indhold
Omfang Estimeret: 30,00 moduler
Dækker over: 35 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 6 US presidential election

Miniforløbet fokuserer på at genopfriske elevernes viden om det amerikanske valgsystem og elevernes arbejder herefter med amerikanske mediers fremstilling af præsidentvalget med fokus på media bias.

Kernestof

Moms for Liberty founders defend fight to prohibit books in school libraries  (NewsNation, 2024) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e8EwRkphmI

'RIDICULOUS': Moms group listed on extremist 'hate map (FoxNews, 2024) 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK18sZOOvNw

Opinion: The Republican Party has become the very cancel culture it pretends to rail against (Rex Huppke, USA TODAY)

Supplerende:

Eleverne har arbejdet med selv at finde nyhedsartikler på nyhedsmedier med forskellige bias med formål at undersøge, hvordan amerikanske nyhedsmedier dækker de samme nyhedshistorier ifm. præsidentvalget forskelligt. Eleverne har anvendt Ad Fontes Media til at være opmærksom på media bias: https://app.adfontesmedia.com/chart/interactive
Indhold
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 9 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 7 Dystopian narratives (eksamen)

Dystopian characteristics

Types of Dystopian Controls
• Corporate control
• Bureaucratic control
• Technological control
• Philosophical/religious control
Characteristics of a Dystopian Society
• Propaganda is used to control the citizens of society.
• Information, independent thought, and freedom are restricted.
• A figurehead or concept is worshipped by the citizens of the society.
• Citizens are perceived to be under constant surveillance.
• Citizens have a fear of the outside world.
• Citizens live in a dehumanized state.
• The natural world is banished and distrusted.
• Citizens conform to uniform expectations. Individuality and dissent are bad.
• The society is an illusion of a perfect utopian world.
The Dystopian Protagonist
• often feels trapped and is struggling to escape.
• questions the existing social and political systems.
• believes or feels that something is terribly wrong with the society in which he or she lives.
• helps the audience recognizes the negative aspects of the dystopian world through his or her perspective.


Short story: The Toxic Donut by Terry Bisson (1993)

Short story: 2BR02B by Kurt Vonnegut (1962)

Movie: V For Vendetta (dir. McTeigue, 2005)

Supplerende
Klassediskussion om nutidige dystopiske træk i USA (fx. book bans, abortion rights)
Indhold
Omfang Estimeret: 16,00 moduler
Dækker over: 21 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 8 CSR (miniforløb)

Kernestof

Why Corporate Social Responsibility matters (Forbes, June 14, 2019) Mattershttps://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescommunicationscouncil/2019/06/14/why-corporate-social-responsibility-matters/?sh=1ffd2ce732e1

REI is defying Black Friday and closing its stores for the 5th year in a row... (Business Insider, November 9, 2019) https://www.businessinsider.com/rei-closed-black-friday-for-the-fifth-year-2019-11?r=US&IR=T

Before the Flood (Documentary by National Geographic and Leonardo DiCaprio, 2016)


Supplerende materiale

- Eleverne har i forbindelse med forløbet selv udarbejdet en anti-consumerism/ anti-Black Friday reklame for en selvvalgt virksomhed.

- Analyse af selvvalgt reklame fra Proctor & Gamble eller Nike med fokus på virksomheders anvendelse af poilitcal corporate social responsibility (PCSR)
Indhold
Omfang Estimeret: 15,00 moduler
Dækker over: 15 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 9 Welcome to London!

Kernestof:

William Blake, London (poem, 1794) fra Worlds of English, Systime: https://worldsofenglish.systime.dk/?id=114

Sherlock s01e01 - A study in Pink (BBC series)

Excerpt of 'A study in Scarlet' by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Part 1: Chapter 1 - Mr. Sherlock Holmes
- Part 1: Chapter 2 -The art of deduction

What is Brexit? (Divided Kingdom, Forlaget Colombus): https://dividedkingdom.ibog.forlagetcolumbus.dk/?id=140&loopRedirect=1
- Eleverne har ud fra dette kapitel samt egen research lavet fremlæggelser, der illustrerer de vigtigste elementer i Brexit processen.


Supplerende:

Quotes on London: https://modernmetropolis.systime.dk/?id=132

Kultursammeligning mellem Storbritannien og Danmark ud fra egne erfaringer samt Hofstedes dimensioner: https://www.theculturefactor.com/country-comparison-tool?countries=.

British humour:
- Don't Mention the War | Fawlty Towers
-  Keeping up Appearances - Series 2, Episode 7
- Monty Python - Stoning
- Life of Brian - pontius pilate
- What's an Elf? - The Office - BBC
- Extra: Little Britain, Ricky Gervais, Conrad Molden
Indhold
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 29 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 10 Black voices (eksamen)

Black history in the United States timeline (group presentations based on the following text https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/black-history-milestones and research online)

Remarks by the President at Black History Month Reception (February 18, 2016 4,4 ns)

Growing up black in America: here's my story of everyday racism (The Guardian, 6 Jun 2018, 5,2 ns)

How to raise a black son in America by Clint Smith (TedTalk, 2015, 1ns)

13th, documentary by Ava DuVernay (Netflix, 2016)

Do Americans Trust the Police? (Pew Research Center, 2024) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj9vD7cKUhE


Supplerende

Slavery ads:
National Geographic  https://www.nationalgeographic.org/media/slave-sale/
John Winston Coleman, Slavery Times in Kentucky (1940) http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6729/>

Individual research and class discussion of ICE in Minnesota - parallels to police brutality.


Gruppearbejde:
Black history timeline: https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/black-history-milestones


Indhold
Omfang Estimeret: 27,00 moduler
Dækker over: 31 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 11 Værklæsning. The Hate U Give (eksamen)

Romanen The Hate U Give af Angie Thomas (2017) er læst i forlængelse af Black Voices forløbet med fokus på at give eleverne en længere læseoplevelse og styrke analytiske evner.

Forløbet er hovedsageligt kørt som et projektforløb, hvor eleverne selv har struktureret deres læsning, men med lærerstyret klasseopsamling og book clubs (gruppediskussioner) undervejs. Afslutningsvis har eleverne indgået i en længere book club i mindre grupper, hvor de skulle diskutere deres samlede arbejde.
Indhold
Omfang Estimeret: 25,00 moduler
Dækker over: 27 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
  • Faglige
  • Læse
  • Almene (tværfaglige)
  • Analytiske evner
  • Personlige
  • Selvstændighed
  • IT
  • Tekstbehandling
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 12 Incredible India (eksamen)

Kernestof:

Central concepts of Hihndusim
- Introduction to Hindusim: https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/hinduism/ataglance/glance.shtml
- Central concepts: https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/hinduism/concepts/concepts_1.shtml
- Brahma: https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/hinduism/deities/brahma.shtml

Karma (by Kushwant Singh, 1989)

Caste in India:
○ Attitudes about caste: https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2021/06/29/attitudes-about-caste/

○ In India, Dalits still feel bottom of the caste ladder: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/india-dalits-still-feel-bottom-caste-ladder-n1239846

○ OpenAI is huge in India. Its models are steeped in caste bias: https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/01/1124621/openai-india-caste-bias/

○ Dalit women in India: India’s caste system: What it means to be a Dalit woman? – BBC News

A Better India:  https://thebetterindia.com/search?title=caste (eleverne har selv fundet artikler, som de mener er relevante)

-  https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/1/27/mother-of-all-deals-how-india-eu-trade-deal-creates-27-trillion-market

- Documentary: Love and Sex in India (DR, 2019) Tilgået via CFU.

- Dark is divine: What colour are Indian gods and goddesses? (BBC, January 21, 2018) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-42637998

- India Debates Skin-Tone Bias as Beauty Companies Alter Ads (New York Times, June 28, 2020) https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/28/world/asia/india-skin-color-unilever.html

Commercials:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ugQMhxjJJQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxOorypX650
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHhKqgOiAs0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq7TeMCJL-o

Supplerende materiale:

- https://www.danskindustri.dk/di-business/arkiv/nyheder/2026/2/sadan-far-du-del-i-ufatteligt-marked/

- https://www.danskindustri.dk/om-di/kontakt-os/presse/arkiv/pressemeddelelser/2026/1/di-handelsaftale-med-indien-giver-adgang-til-hver-femte-forbruger-pa-kloden/

- Oplæg fra tidligere elev om hendes rejse til Indien, hvor hun underviste indiske kvinder om bl.a. kvinderettigheder.

- Hinduism: deities and key concepts (dharma, karma, moksha, samsara, brahma, brahman, vishnu, shiva atman)

- Udvalgte Fair and Handsome og Fair and Lovely reklamer (Fokus: Colorism in India)



Indhold
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 29 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
  • Faglige
  • Læse
  • Diskutere
  • Formidling
  • Almene (tværfaglige)
  • Analytiske evner
  • Overskue og strukturere
  • Sociale
  • Samarbejdsevne
Væsentligste arbejdsformer