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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/y (1y En, 2y En)

Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 USA Divided & American values (exam 26).
Titel 2 Grammatik og skiftlighed
Titel 3 Twisted Stories and Beautiful Minds (exam 26).
Titel 4 Love and relationships (exam 26).
Titel 5 South Africa (exam 26).
Titel 6 War and Conflict (exam 26)
Titel 7 London (exam 26)

Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1 USA Divided & American values (exam 26).

An brief introduction to the USA and so-called  "American values" such as independence, mobility, can-do spirit/optimism, patriotism, liberty and the American Dream (estimation of pages read: 20 ns.)

- Where do the values derive from and how are they reflected in the divisive nature of the 2024 presidential election?

Core texts:
a) Edward O. Kearny: The Frontier Heritage, 1989 (Appears in Systime's English in a Global World).
b) The American election .
Election Year (ibog, Systime, 2024) §4.0-4.5
c) Oliver Anthony: Rich Men North of Richmond (2023).  
The song with lyrics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ug7udnfbcE&t=164s

Additional material:
d) Jason Aldean: Try That In a Small Town: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1_RKu-ESCY
e) Oliver Anthony on response he has received in the wake of his song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv9uMXiY29s
f) Gran Torino (2008) by Clint Eastwood.


Various assignments:
1) The man in the middle: Students draw a random American type whom they have to characterize in terms of interests and habits (in words and sketches).
2) Presentations about optional topics in groups of 2-3 persons.


Dette nåede vi ikke
e) Know my place - finding places on a US map.
f) The  Constitution of the USA (den amerikanske forfatning).
b) The Declaration of Independence - the document that declared the thirteen American colonies independent from Great Britain in 1776 and stated: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness".









Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Virtuel opgave 13-12-2024
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 11 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 2 Grammatik og skiftlighed

Introduktion i grammatik (Getting Started/B):
A) Kongruens (ss. 11-14)
B) Verbets tider (ss. 15-22)
C) Uregelmæssige verber (ss. 23-28 )
D) Do omskrivning (ss. 28-30)

Substantiver

Adjektiver og adverbier og deres bøjninger


Eksamensgrammatik:
https://portal.supportcenter.dk/Eksamen/EngB_2022-01-09/index.html

Øvelser  i jumbled sentences x2

Grammatikøvelse på minlaering.dk
(Eksamensopgave 14 og 8 ).

Øvelser med idiomer (diverse).
Øvelser med sammentrækninger (Twisted Stories).
Øvelse med narrator og POV (Twisted Stories) suppleret med eksempler på 5 forskellige synsvinkler, som elever har skulle "kategorisere".

O-løb med grammatik (fejlsætninger).

Indledende øvelser til essay skrivning.
Film om essayets opbygning fra minlaering
Gennemgang af eksamensopgaven i sin helhed (grammatik og valg mellem fiktion/non-fiktion).
Skrivning af essay om Alice Walker's Flowers (1985).
Referat af Lansdal'e Love Doll (1991).

Opslagsbøger anvendt i undervisningen:
ORDBØGER:
Ordbogen.com (m. Uni-login): https://www.ordbogen.com/da/
Oxford Learners Dictionary: https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/  
Thesaurus (synonym- og antonymordbog): https://www.thesaurus.com/
OCTAVIUS – hjælp til skriftlige opgaver på Viby Gymnasiums hjemmeside: http://octavius.vibygym.dk/


GRAMMARS:
Min Læring (Uni-login): https://app.minlaering.dk/login
Getting Started,
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 126 moduler
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Titel 3 Twisted Stories and Beautiful Minds (exam 26).

A topic that examines plot twists in film and literature and also gives students a chance to reexamine elementary literary terms and genre expectations. Collectively the texts deal with themes such as greed, anger, trust, love and hate.

Stephen King: "The Man Who Loved Flowers" (short story from 1977  - The Lift p .175-180 - Gyldendal 1. udg. 4. oplag 1995).

"Flowers" by Alice Walker.

Maxwell's Silver Hammer. The Beatles.

Nick cave and Kylie M: "Where The Wild Roses Grow" (a murder ballad from 1995): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXA-9mWGCXk

Chapter two in "Contexts" by Mette Hermann. Columbus, 2023.
Button, Button, House Name, Yosemite

Film: "A Beautiful Mind".

Other assignments:
Production of videos with alternative versions of "The Man Who Loved Flowers".
Creation of dilemmas we have discussed in class.
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 17 moduler
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Titel 4 Love and relationships (exam 26).

Love and Relationships

A topic about love, loss and longing. Aspects covered:
-Conventional love poetry and inverted love poems.
-Love marriages and arranged marriages.
-Innocent love, twisted love and crossing sexual boundaries.

In order to get under the skin of imagery students create pick-up lines and poems that require plenty of metaphors and similes.  They will also practise words such as: Alliteration, personification, stanza, rhyme/rhythm, contrasts and imagery. Other literary terms we have applied: Flash fiction, narrator (1. and 3.) and perspective (e.g. reliable/unreliable).

We have also looked at some conventional traits by the Italian lyric poet Petrarch (1304–74) in order to detect how other poets have inverted these conventions:  
-an idealized mistress (poetry praising the beauty of the woman in exaggerated manner).
-the mistress is often absent or otherwise unavailable
-the mistress is chaste
-the poet is less worth than the mistress

Core texts:
Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy (1993). Poem.
Lyrics: https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/valentine/
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpeMawmYPqo

Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare (1609).
Recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP06F0yynic

Anonymous, “Pancake poem” (poem, year unknown).

Richard Bautigan: “Love Poem” (poem, 1969).

Jane Austen, “Pride and Prejudice” (excerpt of a novel of manners, 1813 from Wider Contexts).

Pride & Prejudice (film/2005). Directed by Joe Wright.

Rupi Kaur: In an Ideal World" (Poem, 2014).
Rupi Kaur "For the Passionate Ones" (Poem, 2014)

Joe R. Lansdale: Love Doll (short story, 2014).

Additional material:

India and arranged marriages:
- Do Indians Prefer Love or Arranged Marriage? | Street Interview, YouTube, 2024. (16:59 min.).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axfx92wI83E
- Can Indians Marry outside Their Caste:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xA7RGJiuUc (Steet interview, Asian Buzz, 2024).
Indian Matchmaking (reality show, MAX, series one, season one/2021).

-A Quizlet (metaphor, simile, oxymoron, foreshadowing, alliteration, meter, rhythm and rhyme, a couplet): https://quizlet.com/100936651/literary-terms-flash-cards/

Quotes about love (from Wider Context).

Handouts point of view, words modern dating, boardgame love.
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Dane McCusker, “The Complex”, a short film, 2020 (approx. 10 min). https://filmshortage.com/shorts/the-complex/
The film raises questions about micro aggressions, personal boundaries and gender.

Video on beauty standards in Elizabethan era: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAdbH7tgabg&t=491s

About the iambic pentamenter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5lsuyUNu_4&t=11s

Easton Corbin: Why You Gotta Be So Rude - Marry that Girl (song, 2022). Why You Gotta Be So Rude - Marry That Girl
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 20 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 5 South Africa (exam 26).

President Nelson Mandela's democratic election in 1994 marked the end of apartheid in South Africa - a system of widespread racially based segregation to enforce almost complete separation of the different races in South Africa.

Nelson Mandela, an activist during apartheid, now turned to build a new nation still marred by the atrocities of the past.

-We will look at how South Africa and Mandela tried to come to terms with the past and build a new nation that could embrace differences in terms of language, religion, economy and skin colour. We will also consider present-day problems and challenges in the "rainbow nation".

Other focal points: What distinguishes  autobiographies and biographies. What are the limitations of the genres and why are they so popular with readers?

Main sources:
-Sharpeville, 1960 (From Dompas to Democracy).
-The Child Who Was Shot Dead by Soldiers at Nyanga" by Ingrid Jonker, 1963.
-Once Upon a Time (short story).
-Jeff Cangialosi, "The State of the Rainbow Nation", 2012  (non-fiction). Appears in Appears in From Dompas to Democracy af Birger Axen. Gyldendal, 2015.
- W.E. Henley, Invictus (poem, 1875). https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51642/invictus).


Additional material (not correct):
- Trevor Noah: Born a Crime (non-fiction/2016). Students have read different chapters and presented them to the class. We finished the last chapters in matrix groups and tested our memory with a multiple choice test.
-Invictus (biographical sports film directed by Clint Eastwoodfilm/2009)
-South African national anthem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKynWhsY_-o
-Shosholoza: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aFlQS4k3wo ("unofficial national anthem",
-Extreme Sydafrika: Serie om bl.a. vold i moderne Sydafrika (mit CFU)/ Reggie Yates’ Extreme South Africa, BBC, 2015
- The History Behind and Meaning of The South African Flag - YouTube (4:36).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCwBLovFNQk
-Trevor Noah making fun of South African flag and national anthem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqciCFLxfEE&fbclid=IwAR2VUauS_JB5dpQeQNa0rCQfOEJi5fi3R6fYiMTF_FZhJv9RxnYduCgwxpI (min.: 8 min). Find the one about the flag.
-Mandela's legacy: 25 years on | The Economist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxKj5sbDXdA
The Born-free generation ? (source?).
Africa Rising, BBC, 2023 ( https://www.dr.dk/drtv/episode/alletiders-afrika_-sydafrika_463183
Why South Africa is still so segregated (Youtube 10:15)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVH7JewfgJg.
Interview with Trevor Noah in 60 Minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_gyL3o6dIs
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Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Once Upon a Time 13-09-2025
Once Upon a Time 17-09-2025
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 23 moduler
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Titel 6 War and Conflict (exam 26)

A topic that deals with different attitudes to war, the experience of soldiers both in war and out of war, and the presentation of war in the media. The focus changes from representations of so-called traditional warfare with specific fronts and battlefields to current and possible future types of war which may have less specific fronts and battlefields (drone warfare).

Other keywords: PTSD, the role of the media now and then, war heroes, homecoming, the psychology of war, how individuals are turned into killers or torturers. How soldiers may feel let down by politicians and ordinary people when they return from war, the background of recruits (poor, uneducated, "disposable kids").

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

The Vietnam War:
Willaim Broyles Jr.: "Why Men Love War (article Esquire, 1984).
Full Metal Jacket (film by Stanley Kubrick 1987).
The Shave (short film by Martin Scorsese from 1967).

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.
Pail Harris: A Picture made him a hero. Then his life fell apart (2006).

The Afghanistan War
Anthony Downey: Zemari Ahmani (2024).
An Afghan Family Dream of America Turned into A Nightmare by American Drone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny3ujEFmE30
Biden’s speech on official Afghanistan withdrawa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuX4K4eeTz8&t=31s

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

Additional sources:
Propaganda posters from World War I
>UNISEF's video of Imagine by John Lennon
Imagine (UNICEF: World Version)
>Imagine - John Lennon (Lyric video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubaXu3EZBGI

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MD6QXfAjwA (16 min.).

Exercises:
Vocabulary associated with war, opposites, discussing quotes about war, Q&A (between two classes).
Info-hunt (PTSD, the Vietnam War, iambic pentameter, The Marine Corps, media icons of war).
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Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 25 moduler
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Titel 7 London (exam 26)

There are many quotes and sayings about London, but the most famous one says:
“You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.”  (Samuel Johnson).

We will look into some of the main aspects that makes London an outstanding capital - its diversity and its historic places and landsmarks. To practise literary analysis, you will take turns teaching a particular text to the class in general. We will end our topic with a film of your choice (I'll choose the pool of films your can select from) and some research into particular neighbourhoods.

Inequality in London:
a) Francesca Baker, London Short Fiction: Not Enough. Source:  London Short Fiction: Not Enough | Londonist (short story).
b) George the Poets: My City (peom).
George the Poet -My City -by deuce films -director Rob Ryan (youtube.com).
c) Sexism, vandalism and bullying: inside the Boris Johnson-era Bullingdon Club | Boris Johnson | The Guardian (article)
d) Wealthy Londoners call in Christmas decorators for up to £80,000 | Christmas | The Guardian (article).
e) Excerpts from The Riot Club (film):
Group 1: From 0:00 to 2:45
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guFoukVggdw  
Group 2: From 2:45 to 5:41
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guFoukVggdw  
Group 3: https://www.imdb.com/video/vi77513753/?ref_=vp_rv_vi_1
Group 4: 3:00 to 4:58
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDKoRVkuyi4  

History and landmarks
• History London in 24 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=Ripfp7CeXwyNYDpe&v=6-xs_mXiANM&feature=youtu.be
-Kahoot about trivia

Immigration and multicultural London
a) Britain Shaped by Immigration (the text deals with immigration after the Second World War and the British response to mass immigration).
b) A Marriage Made in Hounslow (fictional text about an arranged marriage).
c) Video: Sadiq Khan: The Rise of London’s Muslim Mayor
d) Video: Donald Trump attacks Sadiq Khan and claims London 'wants to go to Sharia law' in UN speech
e) Video: Sadiq Khan labels Trump 'racist, sexist, misogynistic, and Islamophobic'
f) https://www.britannica.com/video/Overview-British-Empire/-249695 (short video about British Empire).
g) Laura Clark: ''Jafaican' Is Wiping Out Inner-City English Accents' (Daily Mail (non-fiction, 2006)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 8 moduler
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