Undervisningsbeskrivelse
Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin
Juni 2012
Institution
Handelsskolen København Nord
Uddannelse
HHX
Fag og niveau
Engelsk A
Lærer(e)
Xinxin Ren Gudbjörnsson, Nicole Jennifer Christensen
Hold
3H
Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1
Euthanasia
Titel 2
Grammar
Titel 3
Teen Trends
Titel 4
The working life
Titel 5
Business Correspondence
Titel 6
Culture
Titel 7
America
Titel 8
Facebook
Titel 9
Titel
10
Aspects of India
Aspects of China
Beskrivelse af det enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1
Euthanasia
Indhold Kernestof:
Brian Clark, Whose Life Is It Anyway? – A Play, Samuel French –London, 1978
Why Susanne Chose Euthanasia, May 2000, Telegraph
The Promise (poem), Blood, Tin straw, 1999.
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One-Way Ticket, Oct 2002, Time
Supplerende stof:
Film: Whose Life Is It Anyway? A John Badham film with Richard Dreyfuss and
John Cassavetes.
Group Work
Class discussion
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Grammar
Titel 2
Indhold Kernestof:
1. year
Stifinderen
2. year
Fejlstøvsugeren
3. year
Fejlstøvsugeren
Supplerende stof:
Group Work
Øvelser af Typeopgaver
Øvelser på http://beta.visl.sdu.dk/
Titel 3
Teen Trends
Indhold Kernestof:
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- As kids get savvy, marketers move down the age scale (By Jayne O'Donnel, USA TODAY, 11
APRIL 2007)'
- Special issues for tweens and teens (Media Awareness Network)
- How marketers target kids (Media Awareness Network)
- Teens who leave school before 18 could face criminal action (By Elsa McLaren, The Times, 22
March 2007)
- Buzz on the street puts jobs to flight (By Maurice Chittenden, The Sunday Times, 25 March
2007)
- Blair steps up campaign to tackle antisocial behavior (By Patrick Wintour, Alan Travis & Matthew Taylor, The Guardian , 10 January 2006)
- More young people become self starters (By John O'Donnell, The sunday Times, April 8, 2001)
Supplerende stof:
Gossip girl: http://www.bloomsbury.com/Cecily-von-Ziegesar/authors/787/article/8765
Group Work
Titel 4
The working life
Indhold Kernestof:
Getting the Corner Office (http://www.womensmedia.com/lead/135-getting-the-corneroffice.html )
How to write an English CV (http://www.aansoek.com/English_CV.asp)
How to write a good cover letter (http://www.aansoek.com/Write_Cover_letter.asp
Supplerende stof:
Group Work
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Skriftlig opgave med CV og ansøgning
Titel 5
Business Correspondence
Indhold Kernestof:
Engelske Breve
Supplerende stof:
Group Work
Øvelser af Typeopgaver
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Titel 6
Culture
Indhold Kernestof:
Fra: Focus on Culture, 2000, Systime:
What is Culture?
Danish Culture – seen from Abroad
Attitudes towards Other Cultures
Stereotypes and Prejudices
Culture Shock
Richard Gesteland’s Culture Characteristics
Fra: Cross Cultural Business Behavior, Richard R. Gesteland, 2005
The Chinese Negotiator
The Indian Negotiator
The Japanese Negotiator
The Australian Negotiator
The Egyptian Negotiator
Dealing with the Danes
Supplerende stof:
Group work, group presentation
Titel 7
America
Indhold
Kernestof:
America Kompendium
Introduction from The American Ways
Are We all Becoming Americans
Whites Becoming America’s New Ethnic Minority, The Daily Telegraph. August
10, 2007
How Long Will America Lead the World, Newsweek, October 16, 2007
Branding America, Time, February 20, 2005
Traditional American Values and Beliefs from The American Ways
Arnold Schwarzenegger, from Your Society Cheak it Out
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Growing Strength of China Makes Doubts About Future, The Guardian, February
14, 2010.
Barack Obama Overview, The New York Times, January 28, 2010.
Law, Crime and Justice
Group presentations on the following topics:
1. History of the Death Penalty in the U.S.
2. Statistics of the Death Penalty Worldwide
3. Statistics of the Death Penalty in the U.S.
4. Methods of Execution
5. Arguments for Capital Punishment
6. Arguments against Capital Punishment
Film: Dead Man Walking
Extract from the book “Dead Man Walking”, 1993.
American Politics
Uddrag fra The Declaration of Independence
Constitiution of the United States of America
The Bill of Rights
The Race for the Presidency
The American System of government
Fra kompendiet The United States of America
The political System
America in Close-up, Eckhard Fiedler, Reimer Jansen, Mil Norman Risch,
Longman Group, 1993
Supplerende stof:
Being There, Jerzy Kosinski, Black Swan edition, 1983.
“A Nation of Videots”, From an interview with Jerzy Kosinski, Television: The
Critical View, 1976.
Being There (film). 1979.
Group Work
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Titel 8
Facebook
Indhold Kernestof:
Life on the Edge: Learning from Facebook, BusinessWeek, April 2, 2008
Facebook Types
Swot analysis of Facebook
The Evolution of a Remarkable CEO, 2 October 2009, Venturebeat.
Brussels Blast Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg, BusinessWeek, November
12, 2008.
Why Facebook Wants Your ID, 4 January 2010, BusinessWeek.
Privacy No Longer a Social Norm, says Facebook Founder, 11 January 2010,
Guardian.
Facebook’s Washington Problem, 17 May 2010, BusinessWeek
Social Networks Three Years on: Has Anything Really Changed? 16 April 2009,
www.marketingweek.co.uk
Supplerende stof:
Group Work
Mark Zuckerberg, Wikipedia
Mark Zuckerberg, quiz
Titel 9
Aspects of India
Indhold
Kernestof:
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India Kompendium
India at a Glance – General Facts
India at a Glance – Introduction
India at at Glance – A Tale of Two Indias
“A Tale of Two Indias”, The New York Times, January 10, 2011.
Supplerende stof:
Group Work
Titel 10 Aspects of China
Indhold
Kernestof:
China Kompendium:
China country profile
China - Timeline
China's reluctant first entrepreneur
Asia 'leading world out of slump'
China's First Plug-In Hybrid Car Rolls Out
Wal-Mart Plans a Crackdown on Chinese Suppliers
Government profil
Supplerende stof:
Documentary: Migrant Workers in China
Group Work
Class discussion
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