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Mandag den 20. august 2018
kl. 09.00-14.00

Vejledning til opgavesættet


Du skal besvare følgende opgaver:
  • Opgave 1-4
  • Opgave 5A eller opgave 5B
Opgave 5A: manuskript til tale

Opgave 5B: analytisk essay (non-fiktion)
Tekster i dette opgavesæt:
Opgave 5A:
  • The Future Of Retail: How We'll Be Shopping In 10 Years
  • Retailers Experiment With a New Philosophy: Smaller Is Better
  • Brick-and-mortar stores seek new ways to survive "retail apocalypse" (4:28)
  • New technology is changing the way we shop (2:52)
  • Online Retailers Turn To Brick And Mortar Stores As Shoppers Seek Personal Service (1:41)
Opgave 5B:
  • ‘Dreamers’ Put Their Trust in DACA. What Now? by Jose Antonio Vargas

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

Skriv din besvarelse i skabelonen, som ligger under Toolbox i menuen til venstre. Besvarelsen afleveres i ét dokument med opgaverne i rækkefølgen 1-5.

Hjælpemidler
Alle hjælpemidler må benyttes til besvarelse af opgavesættet. Kommunikation med omverdenen er ikke tilladt.



Henvisninger til tekst, video- og lydklip


Hvis du citerer fra en grammatikbog eller internetside i opgave 1-4, skal du angive kilde.
Alt materiale anvendt i opgave 5 skal være engelsksproget og angives med kildehenvisninger.
Du kan henvise til dele af video- og lydklip, f.eks. ved at angive afspillerens minut- og sekundtal for henholdsvis starten og afslutningen af klippet.

Den generelle, overordnede skabelon for en henvisning til internetmateriale


Author, “Title”. Site, medium. Date accessed. [Link].

Eksempler:
Artikel fra internettet med forfatter
Kate Abbey-Lambertz, “Big Sean Gives Back to Hometown Detroit, Hands Out School Supplies to Students”. Huffington Post website. Viewed 3-3-2013.
[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/30/big-sean-detroit-school-supplies_n_3837896.html].

Artikel fra internettet uden forfatter
“The Civil War and emancipation”. PBS website. Viewed 6-6-2013.
[http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2967.html].

Opslag på internettet
“Emancipation Proclamation”. Wikipedia website. Viewed 6-6-2013.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_Proclamation].

Video på internettet
ABC News, “Obama’s Historic Pro-Gay Marriage Stance”. YouTube website. Viewed 27-4-2013.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_RkoMDv3fE]. (3:10-3:22)




Kildeoplysninger


Oplysninger om kilderne til de enkelte tekster findes i teksternes manchetter på opgavesiderne.
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.



Opgave 1


Nedenstående sætninger er fra teksterne The Future Of Retail: How We’ll Be Shopping In 10 Years og Retailers Experiment With a New Philosophy: Smaller Is Better.

I hver sætning er en ing-form understreget. Forklar, hvorfor der er anvendt ing-form i netop denne sætning. Brug relevant grammatisk/faglig terminologi.

  1. Given retail’s steady migration to mobile and e-commerce, you may be wondering what retail will look like in the future.

  2. Are we all going to shop at home in our underwear?

  3. But if you’ve been paying attention, you know that’s changing.

  4. You won’t have to worry about running out of essentials like coffee, pet food or snacks because your containers will sense inventory levels and replenish those items without you having to lift a finger.

  5. Have you ever gone to a store hoping to buy something, only to learn that they were out of stock?

  6. This is the antithesis of the standard shopping mall experience, with the overwhelming assortment of products, the glazed apathy of part-time store workers, the disrobed patrons bellowing from fitting rooms for another size.




Opgave 2


Nedenstående sætninger er fra teksterne The Future Of Retail: How We'll Be Shopping In 10 Years,‘Dreamers’ Put Their Trust in DACA. What Now? og Retailers Experiment With a New Philosophy: Smaller Is Better.

Angiv subjekt (grundled) til det understregede verballed (udsagnsled) i hver af sætningerne, og forklar verbalkongruensen (overensstemmelsen mellem subjekt og verballed). Brug relevant grammatisk/faglig terminologi.

  1. Employee turnover, a costly problem at mall-based retailers, is lower in showroom-style stores, said Nadia Shouraboura, who founded the retail technology company Hointer.

  2. Contradicting what the attorney general and the president have said in public, a White House talking points memo on DACA is making the rounds among my friends and colleagues, in group text messages and private Facebook groups.

  3. How many more Mrs. Dennys have made and will continue to make that decision?

  4. The customer service is often luxurious, but so is the time commitment for shoppers.

  5. They also require less storage space, which makes them more affordable to lease, especially in expensive urban areas.

  6. One of the pains of going out to buy things is that you have to transport them yourself.




Opgave 3


Hver af nedenstående sætninger indeholder en grammatisk fejl, som er understreget. Ret fejlen, og forklar din rettelse. Brug relevant grammatisk/faglig terminologi.

  1. The retailer from who I bought the laptop was extremely helpful.

  2. All articles have been shipped immediate.

  3. The company did not sent an invoice.

  4. The US last year saw more than 2,500 store closures.

  5. He made an enquiry on 200 headsets.

  6. In five years, will 25% of America’s shopping malls be gone.

  7. Small brick-and-mortar retailers seldom are able to compete with companies like Amazon.com.

  8. You never know, when consumer trends change.




Opgave 4


Du arbejder i regnskabsafdelingen hos tøjvirksomheden Westseller. I har opdaget en række uregelmæssigheder i fakturaerne fra en leverandør i Brasilien. Der er ikke overensstemmelse mellem omfanget af leveringerne og fakturaoplysningerne. I har dobbelttjekket alle fakturaer, hvilket har været særdeles tidskrævende. Du skriver en e-mail til leverandøren for at få opklaret, hvad der er gået galt. Da det ikke er første gang, at I oplever problemer med den pågældende leverandør, forklarer du samtidig, hvilke konsekvenser det kan få, hvis der ikke fremover udvises større omhu i forbindelse med fakturering.

Du skriver e-mailen til Josephine Taylor, jota@brazilfabrics.br

Skriv e-mailen på engelsk, og brug alle de nedenstående ord og vendinger.

Ordene/vendingerne skal bruges, som de står, men du må gerne ændre på rækkefølgen og skrive dem med stort begyndelsesbogstav.

I din besvarelse skal du fremhæve de anvendte ord og vendinger med farve eller fed skrift.

Omfang: 100-150 ord

unfortunately invoices
irregularities explain
look forward to over the past month




Opgave 5


Besvar enten opgave 5A eller opgave 5B.



Opgave 5A


The Future of Retail


You work as an assistant at the Modern Retail Association. You have been asked to give a speech on the future of retail at a seminar for students of retail marketing and management at the University of California, San Diego.

In the speech you analyse the current challenges for the retail industry, and you discuss how retailers can survive and thrive in the future.

Write the manuscript in English.

Word count: 800-1200 words

Use the following sources: You may use additional sources in English, for example from the Internet. Do not forget to document all your sources.



Opgave 5B


‘Dreamers’ Put Their Trust in DACA. What Now?


Write an analytical essay in which you analyse the text ‘Dreamers’ Put Their Trust in DACA. What Now? by Jose Antonio Vargas. Part of your essay must focus on forms of appeal and argumentative features. Based on your analysis, assess if Jose Antonio Vargas is successful in communicating his message.

Write the analytical essay in English.

Word count: 800-1200 words

Use the following source: You may use additional sources in English, for example from the Internet. Do not forget to document all your sources.



Toolbox


Word skabelon

Manuskript til tale (pdf)

Analytisk essay (non-fiktion) (pdf)



Kilder


The New York Times. ‘Dreamers’ Put Their Trust in DACA. What Now? September 9, 2017, viewed December 2017.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/09/opinion/sunday/can-dreamers-trust-anyone.html

The New York Times. Retailers Experiment With a New Philosophy: Smaller Is Better. November 17, 2017, viewed December 2017.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/17/business/retailers-showrooms.html

Forbes. The Future Of Retail: How We'll Be Shopping In 10 Years. June 20, 2017, viewed December 2017.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescommunicationscouncil/2017/06/20/the-future-of-retail-how-well-be-shopping-in-10-years/2/#4bd4819c3a26

CBS. Brick-and-mortar stores seek new ways to survive "retail apocalypse". November 20, 2017, viewed December 2017.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/brick-and-mortar-stores-seek-new-ways-to-survive-changing-retail-landscape/

CNN. New technology is changing the way we shop. May 22, 2017, viewed December 2017.
https://youtu.be/DGN7tFARFiA

CBS. Online Retailers Turn To Brick And Mortar Stores As Shoppers Seek Personal Service. August 21, 2017, viewed December 2017.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/08/21/online-retail-brick-and-mortar/