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Sources

Anvendt materiale (til brug for Copydan):

Nathan Poole. "Silas". Father Brother Keeper. Louisville, Kentucky: Sarabande Books, 2015.

BBC. “The Power of Cute”. BBC website, May 17, 2016, viewed October 2024. (www.bbc.co.uk)

Aroha Benston et al. Huia Short Stories 11: Contemporary Māori Fiction. K-T Harrison. "A Picnic with the Bears". Wellington: Huia Publishers, 2015.

Margaret Drabble. A Writer’s Britain. Landscape in Literature. London: Thames and Hudson Ltd., 1979.

Sam Anderson. “Dixie Zen”. In: The Oxford American. Issue July/August 2003.

Woman’s Day. “Polly’s Problem Page”. (www.womansday.co.nz)

J.D. Strunk. “Gledhill Lumber”. The Saturday Evening Post website, February 16, 2024, viewed October 2024. (www.saturdayeveningpost.com)

Faridah T’Eko. “Quitting social media changed my life and it would probably change yours too”. Medium website, 2023, viewed October 2024. (https://medium.com/)

Eva Amin. “Social media isn’t bad: you’re just using it wrong”. TED website, 2022, viewed October 2024. (www.ted.com)

Isabel Dickson. “Blind Turn”. 2023. YouTube website, September 28, 2023, viewed October 2024. (www.youtube.com)

Image credit: Photo of wedding cake. From: Whipped Bakeshop website, viewed October 2024. (www.whippedbakeshop.com)




Assignment 6C – Fiction

  1. Write a summary of “Blind Turn” in about 150 words.

  2. Write a short analytical essay (at least 300 words) about “Blind Turn”. You must focus on the main character Royce Dickson.

    Include the following analytical terms in your essay:
    structure, relationship, framing, message

    Your essay must include references to the text.

  3. Taking your starting point in the short film, discuss how challenges in life can lead to new opportunities.

Use at least two phrases from the box below in your discussion.

firstly, to begin with, then again, illustrated by, however, otherwise, above all, in conclusion


Material

Isabel Dickson, “Blind Turn”, a short film, 2023.






Assignment 6B – Non-fiction

The texts in this assignment focus on being on social media

  1. Write a summary of Text 1 “Quitting social media changed my life and it would probably change yours too” in about 150 words.

  2. Write a short analytical essay (at least 300 words) about Text 2 “Social media isn’t bad: you’re just using it wrong”. You must focus on the sender’s attitude to social media.

    Include the following analytical terms in your essay:
    main points, modes of appeal, receivers, intention

    Your essay must include references to the text.

  3. Taking your starting point in one of the texts, discuss the pros and cons of being on social media.

Use at least two phrases from the box below in your discussion.

firstly, to begin with, then again, illustrated by, however, otherwise, above all, in conclusion


Materials

Text 1: Faridah T'Eko, "Quitting social media changed my life and it would probably change yours too”, an article from Medium website, 2023.

Text 2: Eva Amin, "Social media isn’t bad: you’re just using it wrong”, a TED talk from TED website, 2022.






Assignment 6A – Fiction

  1. Write a summary of “Gledhill Lumber” in about 150 words.

  2. Write a short analytical essay (at least 300 words) about “Gledhill Lumber”. You must focus on the narrator.

    Include the following analytical terms in your essay: 
    setting, conflict, the ending, themes

    Your essay must include references to the text.

  3. Taking your starting point in the short story, discuss how the way we understand things may change over time.

Use at least two phrases from the box below in your discussion.

firstly, to begin with, then again, illustrated by, however, otherwise, above all, in conclusion


Material

J.D. Strunk, "Gledhill Lumber”, a short story, 2024.




Assignment 6

  • Answer assignment 6A or assignment 6B or assignment 6C.
  • Answer all the questions in the assignment that you choose.
  • Write separate answers to each question.
  • The total length of your paper must be 700-1000 words.




Assignment 5

Below is a letter sent to Polly’s Problem Page in the magazine Woman’s Day.

Write Polly’s polite response to Mum in 50-70 words. You must include the following words in your text. You are not allowed to change the forms of the words. You must underline the words in your text.

money – consequently – agreement – advice – happily – people – understandably

Dear Polly,

My son is getting married and the bride’s parents are paying for the wedding. I was told I could invite 50 guests and assumed that meant 50 couples. The bride’s mother hit the ceiling as it was 100 guests all up and suggested I pay for the extra people. I simply cannot afford to and as it is my only son’s wedding, I feel I am entitled to invite who I would like to be there. Another suggestion is to only invite siblings, but my son is an only child and the bride is one of six! Help!

Mum




Assignment 4

The sentences below, which are from two different texts, have been jumbled.

Connect the sentences so that they form two meaningful texts.

a) thick, warm layers of cotton.
b) The image is close, but a bit weak:
c) as we have seen, largely an
d) being locked in a sauna for three months.
e) you’re forced to wear a body stocking made of
f) the cottage garden of earlier centuries looked like.
g) expensive and aristocratic occupation. Gardening on a
h) People often compare the summer heat of Louisiana to
i) It’s important to add that, in the sauna,
j) more modest scale has left fewer lasting marks, fewer records,
k) Turning landscape into art has been,
l) and we have little means of knowing what




Assignment 3

Indsæt den korrekte præposition (forholdsord) på de tomme pladser i teksten, så teksten giver mening. Hvert ord kan kun anvendes én gang. Markér ordene med fed.

at – in – in – in – inside – into – of – of – of – of – off – on – out – to – with

A car was parked [   ] our driveway.

I breathed [   ] the smoky bacon air that drifted to the door as I opened it. I swallowed the saliva that trickled into my mouth. I thought hard not to be hungry, but the baby [   ] me controlled the thinking in the hungry part of my brain. Lionel was there and two [   ] his mates were [   ] him.

They sat [   ] the table. The pot [   ] bones was [   ] the centre. The three [   ] them tore at the flesh and ripped it [   ] the bones with their teeth, then they sucked at those bones and licked their greasy fingers. Bacon juice and grease ran [   ] [   ] their bulging mouths and soaked [   ] their already stained tee-shirts, adding more stains [   ] the rest of the bits of filth [   ] them. The pot was empty. Only the water remained.

K-T Harrison, "A Picnic with the Bears", 2015




Assignment 2

Lyt til podcasten, og skriv eksempler på følgende ordklasser i nedenstående lydklip.

  • 5 adjektiver (tillægsord)
  • 5 adverbier (biord)
  • 5 substantiver (navneord)
  • 5 verber (udsagnsord)
In the podcast from BBC website, broadcaster Lucy Cooke interviews professor Steve Jones about the idea of cuteness.




Assignment 1

Find alle verberne (udsagnsordene) i præteritum (datid) i nedenstående tekst, og omskriv dem til præsens (nutid). Skriv hele teksten som dit svar, og markér verberne (udsagnsordene) tydeligt som i eksemplet.

Eksempel: Silas was more careful...
Silas is more careful...

Silas was more careful the next time. He performed his rite farther from the house, deeper in the avenues of the grove. […] That night, after finding his son’s bed empty, James went out into the grove like a fury, calling the boy’s name. It seemed for a while that Silas would remain in the cold, waiting out his father. James continued to call – assuring the boy that he would wait for him all night and all morning, for as long as Silas liked – and after several minutes Silas appeared, again completely nude, summoned from the trees like a ghost. It was late November, and the breath from the two bodies, one clothed and one bare, one breathing heavily from exertion and the other from pain, poured out in thick clouds that hung around them and slowly dissipated. The switch went to work again on the boy's legs and back. This time it moved faster than before, fast enough to open the skin where it was most tender, behind the knees, across the lower back. It was the last time Silas went running in the grove undressed, and they never mentioned it again as a family. 

James understood that night that his son was something he would never completely comprehend. There were, of course, some things in the boy that reminded James of himself, his willfulness especially. But there was another side, he realized, a hemisphere waxed always away from him, the tidal clock of an unlit landscape he couldn’t map or reckon with.

Nathan Poole, “Silas”, 2015




Template

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Henvisninger til tekst, video- og lydklip

Hvis du citerer, skal du angive kilde.
Alt anvendt materiale skal være engelsksproget og angives med kildehenvisninger. Til forklaring af grammatiske opgaver kan materialerne være på dansk.
Du kan henvise til dele af video- og lydklip, f.eks. ved at angive afspillerens minut- og sekundtal for henholdsvis starten og slutningen af klippet. 

Generel skabelon for henvisninger

Henvisninger

Du henviser til tekster ved enten 1) at angive linjenummeret eller minuttalsangivelsen i en fodnote eller ved 2) at sætte linjenummeret eller minuttalsangivelsen i parentes inde i din tekst:

Ved én linje: l. 34

Ved flere linjer: ll. 35-37

Ved minuttalsangivelse: min. 01:23-02:12

I fodnoter angives: 

Opslag i bog

“Hvad er et ‘utælleligt ord’?”. Helle Brieghel og Dorthe Chalotte Hansen. Engelsk Grundgrammatik. Questions and Answers. Systime 2010. p. 47.

Opslag i elektronisk opslagsværk

“Utællelige substantiver”. Thomas Boesen og Sarah Barding. Engram. Minlaering 2019. (www.minlaering.dk)

Artikel fra bog eller antologi

“Post-Modernism”. Gitte Vest Barkholt and Jørgen Døssing Jepsen. A Short History of Literature in English. A Handbook. Systime 2010. pp. 79-93.

Tekster i opgavesættet

Teksternes ortografi og tegnsætning følger forlæggene. Trykfejl er dog rettet. 
Opsætningen følger ikke nødvendigvis forlæggene. Dog følges forlægget nøje, hvor opsætningen på den ene eller anden måde indgår i opgaven.




Vejledning til opgavesættet

Du skal besvare følgende opgaver:

  • Assignment 1-6
  • I assignment 6 skal du vælge enten assignment 6A, 6B eller 6C

Tekster til opgave 6:
6A – Fiction: “Gledhill Lumber”, a short story by J.D. Strunk, 2024.
6B – Non-fiction: The texts focus on being on social media
Text 1: “Quitting social media changed my life and it would probably change yours too”, an article by Faridah T’Eko, Medium website, 2023.
Text 2: “Social media isn’t bad: you’re just using it wrong”, a TED talk by Eva Amin, TED website, 2022.
6C – Fiction: “Blind Turn”, a short film by Isabel Dickson, YouTube website, 2023.

Vejledning og skabelon til at løse opgaven

Den samlede eksaminationstid for opgave 1-6 er 5 timer. Besvarelsen bedømmes som en helhed ud fra de faglige mål for niveauet. Der lægges vægt på beherskelsen af det engelske sprog, forståelse af forlægget og færdighed i skriftlig fremstilling på engelsk. 

Det anbefales, at du skriver din besvarelse i skabelonen, som ligger under Template i menuen til venstre. Besvarelsen afleveres i ét dokument med opgaverne i rækkefølgen 1-6.




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