Holdet 2u En (2025/26) - Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2024/25 - 2025/26
Institution Nærum Gymnasium
Fag og niveau Engelsk B
Lærer(e) Bodil Lund Falkesgaard
Hold 2024 En/u (1u En, 2u En)

Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 The presidential election in the US
Titel 2 Coming of Age  fiction. EXAM
Titel 3 Multicultural Britain
Titel 4 Of Mice and Men and The Great Depression. EXAM.
Titel 5 India - past and present. EXAM
Titel 6 ELF - English as a Lingua Franca
Titel 7 Class and inequality in the UK. EXAM
Titel 8 Links til skriftlig eksamen

Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1 The presidential election in the US

In this unit, we will work with the American presidential election focusing on rhetoric and the impact of rhetoric in political communication.
We will start off by working with the American political system and what challenges it faces today. We will also look at what constitutes American values and identity, and how politcal conflicts may lead to polarization of the American society.

Key texts:
Donald Trump: "Victory Speech" "(excerpts)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 7 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 2 Coming of Age fiction. EXAM

In this unit, we are going to examine what characterises coming of age fiction, and how this phase in life is influenced by the family, culture and society that surround you. We'll work with a number of genres from various English-speaking countries (Scotland, US, UK, Australia, New Zealand) and recap how to analyse fiction while reading the texts.

Short story: Ernest Hemingway: "Indian Camp" (1925)
Short story: Penelope Lively: The Happiest Days of Your Life" (1978)
Short story: Michael Richards: “Just Like That” (1987)
Short story: Ann French: “Pig Sticker” (2013)
Short story: William Boyd: “Killing Lizards” (1982)
Short story: Alison Fell: “The Shining Mountain” (1992)
Short story: Theresa Ronan,” The Road Home” (2019)
Film: Film: Nick Hornby / Lone Scherfig: An Education (2010)

Supplementary texts:
"Ernest Hemingway's Iceberg Theory" (hand-out)
"Write Like Hemingway" - video about the iceberg theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tspzgPfBFfA
"The three main genres of fiction" in The English Handbook


Kernestof fra uvm:
- tekstanalytiske begreber og metoder til analyse af fiktive og ikke-fiktive tekster
- et genremæssigt bredt udvalg af fiktive og ikke-fiktive tekster fra forskellige perioder, herunder skrevne værker
- tekstanalytiske begreber og metoder til analyse af fiktive og ikke-fiktive tekster
- væsentlige strømninger i britisk og amerikansk litteraturhistorie

ca. 50 ns

Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 14 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 3 Multicultural Britain

Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 9 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 4 Of Mice and Men and The Great Depression. EXAM.

Of Mice and Men and the Great Depression in the US. (Værklæsning)

We are going to read John Steinbeck's novella Of Mice and Men and put it into perspective to the Great Depression that marked the US in the 1930s. We are also going to examine how the American Dream is treated in Steinbeck's novel. Additionally, we are going to examine American modernism and naturalism that have influenced the writing style in Steinbeck's novella.

Key texts:

Novella: John Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men (1936) VÆRK
BBC Bitesize documentary: "Of Mice and Men - Historical Context", 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLAp7Ib4Ycg
James Truslow Adams: Excerpts from The Epic of America (1931)
"American Dream" (article) in https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/economics/american-dream/

Supplementary material:
"American Modernism"  and "John Steinbeck - an introduction" in Pia Rørkær Sigh: Of Mice and Men https://ofmiceandmen.systime.dk/?id=137


Kernestof fra uvm:
- tekstanalytiske begreber og metoder til analyse af fiktive og ikke-fiktive tekster
- et genremæssigt bredt udvalg af fiktive og ikke-fiktive tekster fra forskellige perioder, herunder skrevne værker
- tekstanalytiske begreber og metoder til analyse af fiktive og ikke-fiktive tekster
- væsentlige strømninger i britisk og amerikansk litteraturhistorie

Omfang: 140 ns
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 16 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 5 India - past and present. EXAM

In this unit, we are going to focus on India, the largest democracy in the world. We'll begin with focusing on India's colonial past, then we'll look at the period of decolonization and partition and we'll end with discussing the identity and problems of modern India. In the unit, we'll also recap why English has become the global Lingua Franca in the world today.

Key texts:
Poem: Rudyard Kipling: "The White Man's Burden" (1899)
Short Story: Khuswant Singh: "Karma" (1950)
Short story: Amrita Pritam: "A Stench of Kerosene" (2006)
Documentary: "Child Marriage in India: Teenage Girls Forced to Marry", (2019) Vice Asia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pttHSJCl4Ks
Documentary: "Borders: How this Border Transformed a Subcontinent - India and Pakistan", Vox, 2019:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5Ps1TZXAN8&t=469s
Novel: Aravind Adiga: "The White Tiger "(chapter 1, excerpt ), 2008
Film: "The White Tiger" (2021) directed by Ramin Bahrani


Supplementary material:
Documentary: Jeremy Paxman: "Empire - A Taste for Power", BBC
"Independence and partition in 1947": https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/independence-and-partition-1947
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrcCTgwbsjc
“Indian Independence and Partition” , "Mimic Men", "Demarcations" and "Ambition" in Katrine Brøndsted: Narrating India, 2018


Kernestof fra uvm:
- tekstanalytiske begreber og metoder til analyse af fiktive og ikke-fiktive tekster
- et genremæssigt bredt udvalg af fiktive og ikke-fiktive tekster fra forskellige perioder, herunder skrevne værker
- tekstanalytiske begreber og metoder til analyse af fiktive og ikke-fiktive tekster
- væsentlige strømninger i britisk og amerikansk litteraturhistorie
- det engelske sprogs grammatik, udtale, ortografi og tegnsætning
- standardsprog og variation, herunder elementer af det engelske sprogs udvikling
- det engelske sprog anvendt som globalt lingua franca

(Omfang: 60 ns)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 17 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer


Titel 7 Class and inequality in the UK. EXAM

In this unit, we are going to work with class differences and inequality in the modern UK. Our main focus will be on how inequality influences the young generation in Britain. We will examine what defines post-Brexit Britain and consider the seven social classes that mark British society. Moreover, we are going to analyse fictional and non-fictional texts that depict the consequences of homelessness among children and young people in Britain.

Key texts:

Documentary: Stacey Dooley: "The Young and Homeless" – a BBC documentary (2018) findes på CFU
Article: Geraldine McKelvie, "Teachers in England driving homeless pupils to school and washing clothes, research shows", in The Guardian, Sunday, 25 Jan, 2026
Article: Richard Adams, "Smart money: family offers £180,000 a year for tutor to get one-year-old into Eton", in The Guardian, Wednesday, 22 October, 2025
Short story: Zoë Sharp: "Tell Me" (2006)
Short film: "Bus Girl" (2024)

Supplementary material:
“Economy and Welfare in Post-Brexit Britain”  in Jakob Sinding Skött m.fl, "UK Now", Systime, 2023
"Cinematic technique" - hand-out.

Kernestof fra uvm:
- tekstanalytiske begreber og metoder til analyse af fiktive og ikke-fiktive tekster
- et genremæssigt bredt udvalg af fiktive og ikke-fiktive tekster fra forskellige perioder
- tekstanalytiske begreber og metoder til analyse af fiktive og ikke-fiktive tekster
- væsentlige strømninger i britisk og amerikansk litteraturhistorie
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 13 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 8 Links til skriftlig eksamen

Følgende links må tilgås til skriftlig eksamen:


https://ordbogen.com
https://ordnet.dk/
https://www.thesaurus.com
https://minlaering.dk/
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/
https://www.merriam-webster.com/
Indhold
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 0 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer