Holdet 2x EnB (2025/26) - Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2024/25 - 2025/26
Institution Viby Gymnasium
Fag og niveau Engelsk B
Lærer(e)
Hold 2024 En/x (1x EnB, 2x EnB)

Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 Twisted Stories
Titel 2 American Dreams and Values EKSAMENSEMNE
Titel 3 South Africa EKSAMENSEMNE
Titel 4 Britain today EKSAMENSEMNE
Titel 5 Poverty and Homelessness in Britain EKSAMENSEMNE
Titel 6 War and conflict
Titel 7 Horror EKSAMENSEMNE
Titel 8 Grammatik og skriftlige opgaver
Titel 9 Forløb#11

Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1 Twisted Stories

Tekster med plot twist.
Desuden har vi arbejdet med analytiske begreber:
narrator (first, third person, limited/omniscient, unreliable).

Tekster fra Mette Hermansen: "Choices":
Richard Matheson: Button, Button
James Reasoner: House Names
Donna Moore: Mondays and Thursdays
Sonya C. Dodd: In an Instant
Ray Bradbury: Marionettes, Inc.

Fra Contexts:
Ernest Hemingway: Indian Camp


Grammatik
Verber: præsens
Regelmmæssige og uregelmæssige verber
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 20 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 2 American Dreams and Values EKSAMENSEMNE

Følgende tekster er læst i forløbet:

Immigration and the American Dream:
The Declaration of Independence
Being an Immigrant fra bogen "Being American" af Mette Holm, systime.
The American Dream fra "Wolds of English" af Anne Mette Finderup og Agnete Fog (systime) samt https://vintageamericanways.com/american-values/
Horatio Alger "The Cash Boy" (excerpt, 1889) – fundet her.  American Values | thelanguagepub
J.D. Vance "Hillbilly Elegy" (excerpt)
Arnold Schwarzenegger: "Call me Arnold" interview by Studs Terkel, 1990.
Arnold Schwarzenegger: Endorsement of Harris on Twitter/X: https://x.com/Schwarzenegger/status/1851627802027758005, Oct. 30, 2024.

The Frontier
Being a Frontier man fra bogen "Being American" af Mette Holm, systime
* Howard Fast: "Spoil the Child" (1938) (http://udtalenu.dk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/spoil-the-child-text-glossary.pdf)
American Values | thelanguagepub videoer om historie/værdier
Ana Maria Corona: "Coming to America, to Clean" (fra: "Change & Continuity - The American Experience Today" af Ole Toft Hansen, Anne Helms og Ole Ravn, Gyldendal, 1999).
Donald Trump: Inaugural Address, Jan 20, 2025 (excerpt about "the frontier")

Religion in the US:       
Apocalyptic upbringing: how I recovered from my terrifying evangelical childhood | Evangelical Christianity | The Guardian
Dokumentarfilm: UNITED SHADES OF AMERICA - LGBTQ+ IN SALT LAKE CITY - LGBT i Salt Lake City - mitCFU.dk

Undervejs har vi fokuseret på læsning af forskellige genrer, herunder fiktion, sagprosa og retorik.


Racial issues:
Background reading:
The Civil War
Jim Crow Laws/KKK
The Great Depression
The Civil Rights Act 1964
American History X (film)
Richard Wright “Uncle Tom’s Children, the ethics of living Jim Crow (1940) in “Southern Stories for Y’All”               


Presentations by the students:
Gun violence
How did the US become a Global power
Inequality
The cult of celebrity
Slavery
College Sports and scholarships
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 25,00 moduler
Dækker over: 24 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 3 South Africa EKSAMENSEMNE

South Africa – the topic takes a look at the Aparteid era with special focus on the period around the Apartheid era.


Introduction to the history of South Africa:
The Great Trek
The First and Second Boer Wars
The Native Question and the Land Act of 1913
pp. 47-50 in  From Dompas to Democracy - Karen Bente Holmgaard Andersen og Birger Axen - Gyldendal 2015


- Richard Rive: The Bench (South African short story first published in “An African Treasury” – 1960).
From Here and Now – Gyldendal 1972

Rayda Jacobs: "The Middle Children" (short story, 1994) From "From Apartheid to Zefside" by Niels-Martin Trier Josefsen, Lindhardt og Ringhof, 2015.


National anthem
- The national anthem of South Africa (since 1997) (https://youtu.be/CKynWhsY_-o and https://www.gov.za/about-sa/national-symbols/national-anthem#)

What Life was Like in South Africa during Apartheid  (narrative non-fiction), by Michelle Faul. From "From Apartheid to Zefside" by Niels-Martin Trier Josefsen, Lindhardt og Ringhof, 2015.

Two news reports about the Sharpeville Massacre and the Soweto Riots
- Humphrey Tyler's eye-witness report (Sharpeville Massacre 1960) p.15-17 i From Dompas to Democracy - Karen Bente Holmgaard Andersen og Birger Axen - Gyldendal 2015

- Soweto protest turns violent (BBC article June 16, 1976) p. 20-22 i From Dompas to Democracy - Karen Bente Holmgaard Andersen og Birger Axen - Gyldendal 2015 - a counterpoint response to South African authorities' "official" version of the riots which made the world outside South Africa realise what was going on.

Trevor Noah: Introduction to the national anthem: "You Don't Know What The South African Anthem Means!" - Trevor Noah - (Crazy Normal) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32Ll5oE9kwg (standup)
English as lingua franca

Mandela


Excerpt from "I am not prepared to sell the birthright of the people to be free" pp.41-42 in in  From Dompas to Democracy - Karen Bente Holmgaard Andersen og Birger Axen - Gyldendal 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzT1Pu9V31Y

Rhetorical analysis of two speeches:

Nelson Mandela, Inaugural Address, 1994.
Nelson Mandela's address to ANC rally, 2008.


- Invictus (film) (2009) - film by Clint Eastwood based on Playing the Enemy by John Carlin (128 minutter)


Invictus (poem) by W.E. Henley (1876)

Dokumentarfilm
The History of Apartheid

Historien om Apartheid (3) CFU - dette afsnit fokuserer særligt på omverdenens økonomiske pres og boycott af Sydafrika i Apartheids sidste årtier.

Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 22 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 4 Britain today EKSAMENSEMNE

Background information:
UK Now - An Introduction to Modern Britain, pp. 104-117 on Social Class, Poverty, inequality and social mobility, education & the NHS by Jakob Sinding Skött, Casper Sylvest, Columbus, 2023.

WHAT ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUES FACING BRITAIN TODAY?
Most important issues facing Britain 2023 | Statista

Background:

Fiction (about education): Penelope Lively "The Happiest Days of Your Life" (1978)

Northern Ireland
Short documentary about Northern Ireland today and Peacewalls (21 minutes):
(29) Northern Ireland - a legacy of division | FT Film - YouTube

In groups:

The NHS-crisis:
The NHS crisis is an existential risk for the government | NHS | The Guardian
Decade of neglect means NHS unable to tackle care backlog, report says | NHS | The Guardian
NHS in acute condition: the crisis facing the UK’s hospitals | NHS | The Guardian
Next government should declare NHS a national emergency, experts warn | NHS | The Guardian

Northern Ireland-Ireland border after Brexit:
The Protocol on Ireland and Northern Ireland explained - Consilium (europa.eu)
Brexit: What is the new Northern Ireland trade deal? (bbc.com)


Scottish Independence, new gender law:
Why Scotland and Westminster are going to war over trans rights – POLITICOs
UK government blocks Scotland's new gender recognition law | CNN

Poverty and hunger:
The Guardian view on hunger in Britain: cruel and unnecessary | Editorial | The Guardian
Paramedics say people are getting ill because their homes are so cold - BBC News
How does Britain heat its homes? (mitsubishielectric.co.uk)

The Working Class
The identity and culture of the working class.

Supplerende:
Broke – afsnit 3 på DR Storbritannien på sultegrænsen: Sæson 1 – Dobbeltjob for at overleve | DRTV
Fra 00:00 til 29:00
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 9 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 5 Poverty and Homelessness in Britain EKSAMENSEMNE

Værklæsning i forlængelse af emnet "Britain Today"


Central text:
Robert Swindells: "Stone Cold" (novel, 1993)

Jane Simpson Anderson: "Home Beneath a Bridge" (short story)
https://storiesforhomes.wordpress.com/home-beneath-a-bridge/

Kate Jones: "Snails and Hermits" (short story)
https://storiesforhomes.wordpress.com/snails-and-hermits/

Alva Holland: "What's It About?" (short story)
https://storiesforhomes.wordpress.com/whats-it-about/

Chad Smith, John Frusciante, Anthony Kiedis (Red Hot Chili Peppers): Under The Bridge (lyrics)



DR3 Dok: Ung og hjemløs (CFU)
Engelsk dokumentar. I ni måneder fulgte den britiske journalist Stacey Dooley fire unge hjemløse i deres kamp for en tålelig hverdag.


Unemployment rate (aged 16 and over, seasonally adjusted): % - Office for National Statistics






Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 11 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 6 War and conflict

The topic deals with different attitudes to war, the experience of soldiers both in- and out of war, and the presentation of war in the media. Focus changes from representations of so-called traditional warfare with specific fronts and battlefields to current and possible future types.

Sources:
World War One:
Rupert Brooke: "The Soldier" (poem, 1914).
Siegfried Sassoon: Suicide in the Trenches (poem, 1918).

The Vietnam War:
Full Metal Jacket (film by Stanley Kubrick, 1987).
William Broyles Jr.: "Why Men Love War (article, Esquire, 1984).
William Broyles Jr.: "Remembering a War We Want to Forget (article, Newsweek, 1982)


The Iraq War:
Ewan Wright, "Generation Kill" (2004). Appears in Birgitte Prytz Clausen's Poltics in a Global World. Systime, 2008. P.p. 56-62.
Paul Harris: "A Picture made him a hero. Then his life fell apart" (2006).


General texts:
Why Not Everyone is a Torturer by Stephen Reicher and Alex Haslam

Additional sources:
Propaganda posters from World War I


Exercises:
Vocabulary associated with war, opposites, discussing quotes about war.
Info-hunt (PTSD, the Vietnam War, iambic pentameter, The Marine Corps, media icons of war).
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 14,00 moduler
Dækker over: 17 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 7 Horror EKSAMENSEMNE


"Horror: A Mirror of the human psyche" in Drisdal og Riktrup Hansen: "Horror", systime. Freud "The uncanny" (excerpt) https://horror.systime.dk/?id=120

"Early Horror Fiction - The Gothic Romance" in Drisdal og Riktrup Hansen: "Horror", systime.
https://horror.systime.dk/?id=145

Bram Stoker: "Dracula" The morning of 16 May (1897) (excerpt in Drisdal og Riktrup Hansen: "Horror", systime.) https://horror.systime.dk/?id=124

R.C. Matheson "Making Cabinets" n Drisdal og Riktrup Hansen: "Horror", systime. https://horror.systime.dk/?id=132

E.A. Poe "The Raven"

Stephen King: "The Lawnmower Man"

Jordan Peele: "Get Out" 2017.  Focus on foreshadowing, setting, type of horror and counterpoint music.
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 11 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 8 Grammatik og skriftlige opgaver


I forbindelse med analysearbejde (både mundtligt og skriftligt) har vi anvendt begreber og analyseskemaer fra: "Skriftlig eksamen i engelsk - STX og HF" Bjørn Christensen, Poul Tornøe og Gyldendal A/S 1. i-bogsudgave, 2019

Essay
Vi har arbejdet med five-paragraph-essay, funnel introduction, PEE, conclusion gennem stilladserende opgaver.

Grammatik
Der er løbende arbejdet med øvelser og opgaver på "minlæring.dk" - bogen "Getting Started" er brugt som opslagsværk og til øvelser.
Desuden ordbøgerne:

Ordbogen.com:
www.ordbogen.com
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary:
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/
ENGRAM/Min læring:
https://minlaering.dk/login


Træning af de sproglige opgaver og de grammatiske emner, de berører.
Grammatik: Get It Right af Poul Thornøe (Gyldendal 2012) og Min Læring

• Min Læring – eksamensopgave 2 (A-niveau)
(https://app.minlaering.dk/lektier/klasse/48793/lektie/173961/)
• Min Læring – eksamensopgave 4 (A-niveau)
(https://app.minlaering.dk/lektier/klasse/48793/lektie/196295/)

Eksamensopgaver brugt til træning af alle fem opgavetyper:
Eng B: 31.05.2024
Eng B: 10.12.2024
Eng B: 09.12.2025
Eng B: 27.05.2025
Med flere
MinLæring - eksamensopgaver:
Eksamensopgave 14 (B)
Eksamensopgave 10 (B)
Eksamensopgave 8 (B)


Grammatiske emner, der er berørt med eksamensopgave 1-3 typerne:
• Kongruens
• Foreløbigt subjekt og kongruens
• Tællelige og utællelige substantiver
• Flertalsdannelse substantiver
• Genitiv (apostrof-genitiv og of-genitiv)
• Adjektiver gradbøjning
• Adjektiver >< adverbier (og hvad de to ordklasser hver især beskriver)
• Hjælpeverber (og deres funktion)
• Simpel tid og udvidet tid
• Sammensatte verballed (hjælpeverbum bøjet i tid + hovedverbum i infinit form – infinitiv, perfektum participium el. præsens participium/ing-form)
• Aktiv og passiv
• Verbets tider
• Perfektum og pluskvamperfektum (hvordan de dannes)
• Pronomener (relative pronomener, demonstrative pronomener)
• 'that' som relativt pronomen og som konjunktion
• Nægtelser – hvordan man danner nægtende sætninger
• Ordstilling – ligefrem og omvendt ordstilling
• Stort begyndelsesbogstav

Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 2 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 9 Forløb#11

Indhold
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 0 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer