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Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2024/25 - 2025/26
Institution Tårnby Gymnasium
Fag og niveau Engelsk B
Lærer(e) Lene Jensen, Martin Tvenstrup Sørensen
Hold 2024 En/w (1w En, 2w En)

Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 The US - Election 2024, Dreams and Values
Titel 2 Immigrants in the UK - Mette Hummelmose - EXAM
Titel 3 Fantasy literature - EKSAMENSEMNE
Titel 4 Misogyny - EKSAMENSEMNE
Titel 5 India 3. engelsksproget område - EKSAMENSEMNE
Titel 6 Depression and Hope: Værklæsning: Of Mice and Men
Titel 7 Misogyny - Elaboration and recapitulation
Titel 8 Great Britain elaboration recap Immigration India
Titel 9 US elab-recap values depres Dreams Of Mice and Men
Titel 10 Repetition og eksamenslignende øvelser

Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1 The US - Election 2024, Dreams and Values

Som introduktion til arbejde med US ser vi på valget 2024. Vi læser forskellige tekster og eleverne søger information på nettet.

Eleverne laver et spil for at teste egen og kammeraternes viden mht forhold omkring det amerikanske valg, de store politiske partier mv

Vi arbejder med amerikanske symboler, drømme og værdier

Kernestof:

Med baggrund i amerikanske symboler og deres betydning, undersøger vi, hvordan man bliver præsident samt undersøger hele valgprocessen fra start til slut
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eXCG-hlaqI
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https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/09/09/issues-and-the-2024-election/
2024 Trump 'Liberation Day' Ad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SuS1SMddOE
https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-election-house-11-09-24#cm39155hk00003b6nvocxceer
The US compared to Denmark, https://www.theculturefactor.com/country-comparison-tool
American values - https://beingamerican.systime.dk/?id=130
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/22/learning/2024-election-teaching-resources.html

Supplerende stof
Informationssøgning på nettet

Omfang Samlet omfang ca. 20 sider – 7 moduler à 90 minutter
Væsentlige arbejdsformer Klasseundervisning, par- og gruppearbejde, kreative opgaver mv

Ca 16% af timerne på 1. år

På 2. år - uddybes "Elections 2024, Values, Beliefs, Dreams" (her introduceres the American dream)

What MAGA means to Americans, https://theconversation.com/what-maga-means-to-americans-259241 July 3, 2025
'Economic relief, not more war’: Iran strikes test Trump coalition ahead of midterms – 02/28/2026 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/28/economic-relief-not-more-war-iran-tests-trump-coalition-ahead-of-midterms-00805670

Ekstemporalt - gruppearbejde:

The Republican Party, historical background

Donald Trump’s popularity
Borger, Julian (2023, 16 March) How the Iraq war altered US politics and led to the emergence of Trump. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/16/iraq-war-trump-republicans
Cimino-Isaacs, Cathleen & Hufbauer, Gary (2017). Trump versus Globalization. The Cairo Review of Global Affairs. https://www.thecairoreview.com/essays/trump-versus-globalization/
Hartocollis, Hubler, 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/11/us/college-campus-outbreak-covid.html

Donald Trump’s foreign policy
Sullivan, Kate (2024) https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/10/politics/trump-russia-nato/index.html

Donald Trump’s trade policy
Ojeda, Raul & Telles, Edward (2021), Trump Paradox: How Immigration and Trade Affected White Voting and Attitudes - Raul Hinojosa Ojeda, Edward Telles, 2021 (sagepub.com)
Lester, Simon (2021) https://www.cato.org/blog/are-parties-switching-places-trade

Immigration policy, TrumpWhiteHouse (2019) https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-modernizing-immigration-system-stronger-america/
Ojeda, Raul & Telles, Edward (2021), Trump Paradox: How Immigration and Trade Affected White Voting and Attitudes - Raul Hinojosa Ojeda, Edward Telles, 2021 (sagepub.com)
Georgewbushwhitehouse, 2002
https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/04/20020430-5.html

Populism and Trump's political worldview
Brøndum, Rasmussen, 2020, p 123 USA's udfordringer
Brooks, David (2024) https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/opinion/populism-trump-liberalism.html?fbclid=IwAR1IkY1O7shU8HJKez99SJ0wl_FrXVXSAuMkMPXi5r8m17a2WIGAiMEs7KY
Laloggia, 2018 https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/08/23/republicans-and-democrats-agree-they-cant-agree-on-basic-facts/

Ronald Reagan
Righting the American Dream: How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan’s Evangelical Vision,
Righting the American Dream: How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan’s Evangelical Vision, Winston (uchicago.edu)
Forty years after Ronald Reagan was re-elected, Republicans want Reaganism back

MAGA and War in the Middle East
Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 på X: "We said “No More Foreign Wars, No More Regime Change!” We said it on rally stage after rally stage, speech after speech. Trump, Vance, basically the entire admin campaigned on it and promised to put America FIRST and Make America Great Again. My generation has been let down, https://t.co/P0l90kaZFZ" / X February 28, 2026

MAGA Kingmaker Steve Bannon Stokes Trump Civil War With ‘Total Betrayal’ Jab March 1, 2026

The American Conservative på X: "JD Vance in 2024, less than 10 days before the presidential election: " Our interest, I think, very much is in not going to war with Iran.  It would be a huge distraction of resources. It would be massively expensive to our country." https://t.co/Catjq4HSgo" / X

Just one in four Americans say they back US strikes on Iran, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds | Reuters March 1, 2026

Debating the American Dream
The American Dream gap: Why politicians aren’t fixing the economy 02/26/2026
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/397448554_Debating_the_American_Dream_How_Explanations_for_Inequality_Polarize_Politics

Analysis of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ”The Dream of Being Best”, an excerpt from an interview with Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1980 and published in “American Dreams: Lost and Found”. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-dec-17-oe-nuterkel17-story.html

Ekstemporalt: Cuba and the American Dream –
UM Libraries Digital Exhibits | In Search of Freedom: Cuban Exiles and the U.S. Cuban Refugee Program
Immigration Crackdown Unnerves Once-Protected Cuban Exiles in Florida May 28, 2025
Cuban exiles were shielded from deportation. Now Trump is cracking down – NBC 6 South Florida May 26, 2025
Marco Rubio and his view of the American Dream, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftJXJUk8GiY April 2025 + https://news.louisville.edu/news/rubio-talks-about-maintaining-american-dream October 3, 2024

7 moduler på 2. år
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 7,00 moduler
Dækker over: 3 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 2 Immigrants in the UK - Mette Hummelmose - EXAM

Vi ser på immigranternes forhold i UK. Der sammenlignes bl.a. med danske forhold.

Kernemateriale
Der er benyttet tekster fra Contexts, Gyldendal:
"Long nights, low pay and no play", non-fiction
"My Son the Fanatic"
"My family said they would boycott my wedding", Sarfraz Manzour, https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/sep/29/family-boycott-wedding-day

Film:
"Dirty Pretty Things"

Eleverne laver summary og personkarakteristikker, analyserer og præsenterer My Son the Fanatic på klassen. Der sammenlignes med det øvrige benyttede materiale.

Skriftligt arbejde: My Son The Fanatic, afleveret 31-01-2025

1. år, ca 11 moduler

2. år, ca 3 moduler:
Arbejde med filmen East is East, a 1999 English comedy-drama film written by Ayub Khan-Din and directed by Damien O'Donnell

Ekstemporalt arbejde med aktuelle statistikker og den nuværende situation:

Keir Starmer pledges £84m to stop illegal migration 'at source' https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czvxp9d5lrko  - July 2024

Migrant crisis: Keir Starmer admits migrant crisis is 'deteriorating' as 40,000 cross Channel under PM's watch - June 2025, https://www.gbnews.com/politics/migrant-crisis-keir-starmer-channel-crossings

Poll on UK immigration, https://youtu.be/Bg6kjPzth68 (2:16) 2025

Grammatik:
MinLæring https://www.minlaering.dk/
Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
My Son the Fanatic 31-01-2025
Omfang Estimeret: 11,00 moduler
Dækker over: 11 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 3 Fantasy literature - EKSAMENSEMNE

I forløbet arbejder vi med genren fantasy. Vi læser forskellige tekster og identificerer genretypiske træk.
- Genre and subgenres
- Setting: secondary world, parallel worlds, blurred coexistence
- Structure and plot: conflict, point of no return, moment of recognition, quest, happy ending.
- Joseph Campbell: The Hero's Journey
- Characters: hero / heroine, the chosen one, protagonist, antagonist, wizard, helpers and enemies
- Magical invento

Indhold
Kernestof:

Introduction to the genre from: Entering Worlds of Fantasy, Anne Mette Finderup og Agnete Fog: Worlds of Fantasy, Systime 2005 (7 ns)
Lewis Carroll: af: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1865, chapter one, Down the Rabbit Hole (8,2 ns)
J.R.R.Tolkien: af: The Hobbit, 1937, chapter one, An Unexpected Party (28 ns)
J.K. Rowling: from: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2023 (31 ns)

Supplerende stof
Film: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice Through the Looking Glass, 2016
Film: The Hobbit, An Unexpected Journey, 2012
Film: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2013

Grammatik, ordbøger mm:
Engelsk multimediegrammatik    - https://emmg.systime.dk/
Engelsk grundgrammatik              - https://engelskgrundgrammatik.systime.dk/
Engelsk fortsættergrammatik      - https://engelskfortsaettergrammatik.systime.dk/
Talking Grammar, Gyldendal                    - https://tg.ibog.gyldendal.dk/index.php?id=221
NDLA teaching material (Language and grammar) - https://ndla.no/nb/subject:1:4ad7fe49-b14a-4caf-8e19-ad402d1e2ce6/topic:2:189086/
English Verb Conjugation              - https://conjugator.reverso.net/conjugation-english.html
Merriam Webster Dictionary       - https://www.merriam-webster.com/
Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries      - https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/
Idioms, words and phrases, Grammarist   - https://grammarist.com/idiom/
Minlæring  https://www.minlaering.dk/

Samlet omfang: ca 90 sider / 40% / 17 moduler på 1. år
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 17,00 moduler
Dækker over: 14 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 4 Misogyny - EKSAMENSEMNE

Vi arbejder med Netflix-serien
Adolescence episode 1-4.

Der analyseres mht setting og ses på karakterer, temaer, narrative technique, setting, sociale klasser mv
Der arbejdes med filmanalyse, bl.a. i et samspil med mediefag.

I am Andrew Tate - https://www.dr.dk/drtv/se/sandheden-om-andrew-tate_435648

Barking at female staff and blocking doorways: teachers warn of rise in misogyny and racism in UK schools, https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/apr/19/teachers-warn-rise-misogyny-racism-uk-schools

Understanding the influence of misogyny in schools from the perspective of teachers, https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11864523/#sec010

Ca 19% af timerne på 1. år

Alt materiale ligger i OneNote

2. år, ca 5 moduler:
"The Man Who Loved Flowers" by Stephen King (1977)

Info and facts - UK - Two thirds feel misogyny is a problem in UK, Women's Institute polling suggets, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/womens-institute-opinium-cambridge-b2708705.html  March 4, 2025

USA -
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/researchers-report-stunning-surge-of-misogyny-in-schools - December 10,2024:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/researchers-report-stunning-surge-of-misogyny-in-schools

Social media reactions - The gender blind spot: How early reactions to violent attacks sideline misogyny, August 6, 2025
https://www.info-res.org/articles/the-gender-blind-spot-how-early-reactions-to-violent-attacks-sideline-misogyny/

"I Was Labelled The High School Slut. It Affected My Whole Life", by Robyn Swirling, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/brett-kavanaugh-yearbook-renate-alumnius_n_5baa8e31e4b0f143d10e2639, Sept 25, 2018
Denne tekst blev også benyttet som udgangspunkt for non-fiction essay
Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Adjektiver 11-04-2025
Omfang Estimeret: 8,00 moduler
Dækker over: 9 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 5 India 3. engelsksproget område - EKSAMENSEMNE

- historiske og aktuelle forhold i andre engelsksprogede regioner.

India: British Empire - India and globalization


Texts:

Khushwant Singh: Karma (1950)
Mayur Mulki: The Tonic That Kept The British Empire Going (2018)
britannica: Mahatma-Gandhi
Jawaharlal Nehru's Constituent  Assembly Speech | Tryst with Destiny (1947)
Saadat Hasan Manto: The Dutiful Daughter (1990)
Urvashi Butalia: Blood (1997)
R.K. Naryan: A Horse and Two Goats (abridged, 1970)

Lektie: Will Hinglish Replace English as India’s Lingua Franca? https://www.newsweek.com/will-hinglish-replace-english-india-lingua-franca-426174

Forår 2026
In class: Work with “To the girl in English class” https://www.tiktok.com/@_havfy/video/7162650093349309702, by Hafsat Abdullahi, 2022
John Agard: Checking Out Me History, Published in Half-Caste (2005) – arbejder med teksten, opsamling på klassen

How India treats its women, December 2012, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-20863860

Indian females in the twenty-first century: how they have fared? An analysis using geospatial techniques, https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10044063/ 2023, March 28
Why are Indian Women Wearing Cow Masks? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-40404102?ocid=socialflow_facebook&ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbcnews&ns_source=facebook 27 June, 2017
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 22 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 6 Depression and Hope: Værklæsning: Of Mice and Men

I alt 11 moduler

Robert Burns To A Mouse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_a_Mouse

History Brief: Okies During the Great Depression
https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=mQ4E4kakI42Vb4bp&v=W3ID8DebUQ4&feature=youtu.be

The Dust Bowl and Depression, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ9QOcVt1Hc

The Story of the Great Depression in Photos,
https://www.thoughtco.com/great-depression-pictures-1779916

Timeline of Great Depression and World War II https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/united-states-history-primary-source-timeline/great-depression-and-world-war-ii-1929-1945/overview/

Of Mice and Men, Systime https://ofmiceandmen.systime.dk/?id=136

Of Mice and Men, Audiobook, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwsOgHASmyU&t=2081s

The class created a podcast of appr. 5 minutes with the title "This Week's Book Club"
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 11,00 moduler
Dækker over: 8 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer




Titel 10 Repetition og eksamenslignende øvelser

Eksamenslignende øvelser med følgende tekster:

Theme: Nigeria – Past and Present
Text: An excerpt from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel “Half of a Yellow Sun (2006)

Theme: Human Trafficking
’I couldn’t escape’: the people trafficked into call centres and forced to scam Australians (excerpt) – […] marks that part of the text have been left out (2,4 ns)
Author: Cait Kelly
Source: The Guardian, 2 April 2023 https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/apr/02/i-couldnt-escape-the-people-trafficked-into-call-centres-and-forced-to-scam-australians

Theme: Troubled Love
Text: “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, published in Vogue Magazine on December 6, 1894

Theme: Youth and Education – Search for Identity
Text: “Clara’s Day” by Penelope Lively (abridged). I: The Entrance, Systime 1989.

Theme: Modern Britain
Text: Josh Halliday, “Britain’s ‘medieval’ health inequality is devastating NHS, experts say”, (2,8 ns), 29 June 2025, https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/29/britains-medieval-health-inequality-is-devastating-nhs-experts-say

Theme: US - The American Dream
"Coming to America, to Clean", Ana Maria Corona, first published in Harpers, April 1993 (2,3 ns)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 6,00 moduler
Dækker over: 7 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer