Undervisningsbeskrivelse
Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin
Termin hvori undervisningen afsluttes:
maj-juni 2010
Institution
Handelsskolen København Nord
Uddannelse
Hhx
Fag og niveau
Engelsk A
Lærer(e)
Maria Seis Flyvholm
Hold
1F
Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 Cultural Studies
Titel 2 Business Studies
Titel 3 Growing up
Titel 4 Great Britain
Titel 5 Tesco
Titel 6 Pronunciation
Titel 7 Teen trends
Titel 8
Business correspondence and grammar
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Titel 1
Cultural Studies
Indhold Denmark, a declaration of love, Discover Denmark- on Denmark and the Danes, Past Present and future, The Danish Cultural Institute& Systime 1992
What is intercultural communication?
Kulturanalyse: Hofstedes løgdiagram, Det Kulturelle Møde, Systime
Learn to speak body language and zone distances and let your hands do the talking from
Conquering the market, Systime
Case study: Do we understand each other, Business Across Cultures, Longman
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Beskrivelse af det enkelte undervisningsforløb
Titel 2
Business Studies
Indhold
Business theory and principles
Who owns the business?
Shopping Around
Market Research Survey
Why advertise?
All articles are from : Adult Worlds by Dahl et al, Gyldendal Uddannelse 2000
Company profiles
Marks and Spencer, In: Adult Worlds by Dahl et al, Gyldendal Uddannelse 2000
Harrods, from : Business & Communication, Futurum
Frisko in the article- Ice cream the Danish Way, Airport magazine, June/July 2006
Tesco in the article: Will Tesco take over your life?, Current, February 2007
Titel 3
Indhold
Growing Up
Short stories from Contexts dealing with the subject of growing up:
Just Like that by Michael Richards
The Sin Bin or Lucy’s Heart by Lucy Cross
Indian Camp by Ernest Hemingway
In relation to Indian Camp we have talked about Hemingway’s writing style and the principle
of the iceberg
Songs about growing up
Fifteen with Taylor Swift
Growing Pains with Katy Perry
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Titel 4
Great Britain
Indhold
Map of the United Kingdom
Geographical Britain – a Fact File from ”Target”, Gyldendal
The British Empire – from ”Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
A Sense of Class – from ”Adult Worlds”, Gyldendal
Youtube- Keeping up Appearances
Education in Britain Today, “Adult Worlds”
Elections + The British System of Government, “Targets”
DR udsendelser om valget i Storbritannien
Group presentations on self-chosen subjects: food and drink, language, Northern Ireland, government, law etc.
Film: This is England a film by Shane Meadows
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Titel 5
Tesco
Indhold Turtles and toads boost Tesco, The Sunday Times, 5 May, 2006
Tesco drives into America, The Sunday Times, June 10, 2007
Tesco unveils green pledges, BBC News, January 18, 2007
The man who transformed your high street, The Daily Telegraph
Tesco richer than Peru, The Observer, 15 April, 2007
Tesco:Wal-Mart’s Worst nightmare, Businessweek, 12 April, 2008
The students were divided into matrix-groups. Afterwards the students shared their
knowledge with the other groups.
Titel 6
Pronunciation
Indhold
We have discussed typical pronunciation problems for Danes th,v and w, and the pronunciation of r
In our discussion we have included the following:
Berlitz sinking versus thinking:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSdxqIBfEAw
Anders Fogh’s Speech in Istanbul:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY_c50YFKiY
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Titel 7
Teen trends
Indhold Teenagers at Ten: Tweens By Nicholas Hellen and Andrew Alderson
Drugs grips Asian Teenagers by Stuart Miller, The Guardian
Drink and Drug Use High in Teens, BBC 14/12-2004
Titel 8
Business correspondence and grammar
Indhold Grammar
Stifinderen – en differentieret engelsk grammatik, Hanne Wacher og Kim
Kjærgaard, forlaget Andrico, grundbog og øvebog. Det sidste vi har arbejdet med
er do-omskrivning. Derudover har vi arbejdet med ordklasser s. 6-9 i Grammar
Rules, Økonom 2007.
Business correspondence
Engelske Breve, Niveau B, Hougaard og Jonas – Forlaget Sprogbøger
har arbejdet med s. 1 til s. 29 letter no. 24
Undervisningsbeskrivelse
Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin
Maj – juni 2011
Institution
Handelsskolen København Nord
Uddannelse
HHX
Fag og niveau
Engelsk A
Lærer(e)
Maria Seis Flyvholm
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Hold
2F
Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1
Aspects of the USA
Titel 2
Company Profiles/CEOs
Titel 3
Business Communication
Titel 4
African-Americans
Titel 5
Grammar
Beskrivelse af det enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1
Aspects of the USA
Indhold
Chapter 1, introduction p. 1-11, American Ways
Are We all Becoming Americans?, The Big Issue
Growing Strength of China masks doubt about future, The Guardian, 14 February
How Long Will America lead the World?, Newsweek, June 26, 2006
Chapter 2, Traditional American Values and Beliefs, pp. 21-32, American Ways
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Your Society Check it out
Barack Obama overview, The New York Times, January 28, 2010
Group work on the Statue of liberty.
Michael More’s film Sicko about the American health care system. We talked about
the various welfare models the residual model as opposed to the Scandinavian
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model.
Politics and government
p. 127-136 government and politics in the United States, The American Ways,
third edition,
Group presentations USA
The Declaration of Independence (and the historical background)
The Bill of Rights (and the historical background)
The Civil War-the union-the Confederation
The American religious heritage
The American Frontier Heritage
The world of American business
Education in the United States
The American Family
Leisure time- organized sports, recreation and television
Titel 2
CEOs/ Company Profiles
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Indhold
Facebook- Mark Zuckerberg
In class
Se de 11 Facebook-typer, Berlingske Tidende, 21. november 2008
Livet ifølge Facebook, Berlingske Tidende, 17. oktober 2008
Profile on Mark Zuckerberg, www.entrepreneur,com, 10 November, 2009
Mark Zuckerberg: The evolution of a remarkable CEO, 2 October 2009, Venturebeat + questions.
Facebook on 60 Minutes, December 2010 – YouTube
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7120522n part 1 and 2
Group work
Brussels Blast Facebook over Hate Groups, BusinessWeek November 12, 2008
An Open Letter from Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg, December 2009,
blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=190423927130
Why Facebook wants your ID, 28 December 2009, 28 December 2009 & January
4 2010, BusinessWeek.
Privacy no longer a social norm, says Facebook Founder, 11 January 2010, Guardian.
Facebook’s Washington Problem, 17 May 2010, BusinessWeek
Privacy concerns Hit Facebook, 27 May,
2010,http://www1.voanews.com/learningEnglish/home/business/privacyconcerns-Facebook-Google-95063839.html
Social networks three years on: has anything really changed? 16 April 2009,
www.marketingweek.co.uk
SWOT-analysis of Facebook
We watched the the film The Social Network from 2010 about Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg.
After watching the film we listened to the following review of the film:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/2010/10/5_live_review_the_social_netwo.html
Finally everybody wrote his/her own review of the film.
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Starbucks
Saving Starbucks’s Soul, BW, April 9, 2007
Swot analysis of Starbucks. As theoretical framework we have studied chapter 2, swot
analysis in Get Ahead, Økonom 2002.
Beskrivelse af det enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 3
Business Communication
Indhold
Business & Communication, Lisbeth Kjær, Futurum
Beskrivelse af det enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 4
African-Americans
Indhold
Ethnical and racial assimilation in the United States, American Ways, An introduction to American culture by Maryann Datesman, Longman, second edition.
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Some other spring from Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday with William
Dufty, Systime, 1993, p. 7-20
Strange Fruit http://www.strangefruit.org/
Rosa Parks the- Torchbearer, Time, June 4 1999
Writers and Writing-James Baldwin, Current , Jan. 86
Go tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Black Power, Black Nationalism
“Jakob og Klanen” http://www.americanpictures.com/video/kkk.on.the.road/kkk-road-dk.htm
Obama’s speech on race, March 18, 2008 youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWe7wTVbLUU
The film Goodbye Bafana about Nelson Mandela
Group work and presentations
Slavery in the USA
American Civil War
American Civil Rights Movement
NAACP
Martin Luther King
Black Power
Malcolm X
The Ku Klux Klan
The film Malcolm X
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Beskrivelse af det enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 5
Grammar
Indhold
Fejlstøvsugeren – grammatisk øvebog i engelsk
Jens Bøgh & Jørgen Hovgaard, Forlaget Musagetes ApS, 1987
Fokusområder:
Ordklasser
Verber
Kongruens
Genitiv
Relative pronominer
Simpel tid/udvidet tid
Adjektiver/Adverbier
Assignments
The students have written all the assignments in our compendium:
Assignments 2nd year.
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Undervisningsbeskrivelse
Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin
Termin hvori undervisningen afsluttes:
maj-juni 2012
Institution
Handelsskolen København Nord
Uddannelse
HHX
Fag og niveau
Engelsk A
Lærer(e)
Maria Seis Flyvholm
Hold
3F
Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 Fiction
Titel 2
Facebook
Titel 3 Wal-Mart
Titel 4 Aspects of life in the USA
Titel 5 African-Americans
Titel 6 India
Titel 7 Culture
Titel
Great Britain
8
Bemærk at jeg i denne undervisningsbeskrivelse har samlet alle de emner som opgives til eksamen
dvs. at det er ikke alle emnerne på denne plan, som er gennnemgået på 3. år.
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Titel 1
Indhold
Fiction
Being There and the media’s influence on our lives
Jerzy Kosinski, Being There, Black Swan 1999
Interview with Jerzy Konsinski “A Nation of Videots” from an interview with
Jerzy Kosinski Horace Newcombe: Television: The Critical View (1976)
The Film Being There
Group presentations of the various chapters
Discussion of the article Does watching TV make us stupid from Psychology
Today
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-human-beast/200903/doeswatching-tv-make-us-stupid
Raymond Carver (has been read by the entire class)
Background information
An interview with Raymond Carver From Alice and Writing: interviews with
American authors of the 1980s.
They’re Not Your Husband (Will you please be quiet, please-1976)
Tell the Women We’re Going (What we talk about when we talk about when
we talk about love-1981)
The Bath ( What we talk About When We Talk About Love-1981)
Short stories from Contexts dealing with the subject of growing up:
Just Like that by Michael Richards
The Sin Bin or Lucy’s Heart by Lucy Cross
Indian Camp by Ernest Hemingway
In relation to Indian Camp we have talked about Hemingway’s writing style and
the principle of the iceberg
Omfang
Anvendt uddannelsestid
Særlige
fokuspunkter
At anvende relevante tekstanalysemodeller til at fortolke og perspektivere
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tekster.
Har ligeledes talt om skrivestilen minimalisme og isbjergsprincippet.
Væsentligste
arbejdsformer
Klasseundervisning, elevfremlæggelser og skriftligt arbejde
Beskrivelse af det enkelte undervisningsforløb
Titel 2
Indhold
Facebook
Se de 11 Facebook-typer, Berlingske Tidende, 21. november 2008
1. Livet ifølge Facebook, Berlingske Tidende, 17. oktober 2008
2. Profile on Mark Zuckerberg, www.entrepreneur,com, 10 November, 2009
3. Mark Zuckerberg Quiz
4. Mark Zuckerberg: The evolution of a remarkable CEO, 2 October 2009,
Venturebeat + questions.
5. Facebook on 60 Minutes, 13 January 2008 – YouTube
Group work
6. Instructions for mock exam
7. Brussels Blast Facebook over Hate Groups, BusinessWeek November 12,
2008
8. An Open Letter from Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg, December
2009, blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=190423927130
9. Why Facebook wants your ID, 28 December 2009, 28 December 2009 &
January 4 2010, BusinessWeek.
10. Privacy no longer a social norm, says Facebook Founder, 11 January
2010, Guardian.
11. Facebook’s Washington Problem, 17 May 2010, BusinessWeek
12. Privacy concerns Hit Facebook, 27 May,
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2010,http://www1.voanews.com/learningEnglish/home/business/privacyconcerns-Facebook-Google-95063839.html
13. Social networks three years on: has anything really changed? 16 April
2009, www.marketingweek.co.uk
14. SWOT-analysis of Facebook
Omfang
Anvendt uddannelsestid
Særlige
fokuspunkter
Anvende viden om erhvervsrelaterede forhold i USA
Redegøre sammenhængende for og deltage i samtale om erhvervsrelaterede
emner.
Væsentligste
arbejdsformer
Titel 3
Klassseundervisning, gruppearbejde og elevfremlæggelser.
Wal-Mart
Indhold
Wal - Mart’s history and Background: – class discussion
1. Wal- Mart world, Newsweek, May 20,2002
Homework – Read the article
2. Wal-Mart’s history video
http://walmartstores.com/Video/?id=811
Wal - Mart – Student Presentations
Wal- Mart in India:
1. Bharti Walmart to double stores in India, eyes top spot in two
years, May 5 2011, Rasul Bailay
2. Wal-Mart ‘Optimistic’ on India Foreign Investment, October
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26,2010, By Malavika Sharma and Pratik Parija.
3. Wal-Mart Urges India to End Poverty as Alcatel Sees ‘Fortune’
November 16, 2010, By Andrew MacAskill and Unni Krishnan
WAL- Mart in a Globalised World:
1. Wal-Mart profits up 3% to $3.4 billion, BW, May 17, 2011
2. Wal- Mart’s German Retreat, BW,July 28, 2006
3. Wal – Mart’s Asda to Buy UK’s Netto for $1.13 Billion, BW, May 27 ,
2010
4. Wal-Mart acts over Chinese goods , October 22,2010, BBC News
5. Wal- Mart’s painful lessons, by Mathew Boyle, October 13 ,2009, BW
Wal- Mart and Labour issues
1. Wal-Mart Women Vow to Press Bias Fight in Courts, U.S. Agency,
June 21, 2011, Business Week
2. Wal-Mart's Labor Problem, from Organic Consumers Organization, by Aaron Ludensky CampusProgress, September 15, 2008
3. Wal-Mart Supplier Accused of Sweatshop Conditions, by Pallavi
Gogoi, Top News October 9, 2008, Business Week
Wal- Mart and the Environment:
1. Is Wal- Mart going green?, msnbc.com, news services, October
25, 2005.
2. Wal-Mart to pay millions in waste case , March 5, 2010 , Associated Press
Wal – Mart: Strategies, PR/Image
1. Wal- Mart: A “Reputation Crisis”, BW,October 31, 2006
2. Wal- Mart Goes Abroad for growth, BW, February 21,2007
3. How Wal- Mart’s TV Prices Crushed Rivals, BW, April 23,
2007
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4. Wal- Mart Without the Warts, BW, July 9, 2007
5. How to fix Wal-Mart? Ask its Managers, BW, August 21, 2007
SWOT ANALYSIS
The Ultimate pro – Walmart Article
Daily Article by Paul Kirklin. Posted on 6/28/2006
Five Ways Wal- Mart is a menace to America and the World,by Bill
Quin, chapter 6 from “ How Wal-Mart is destroying America and the
world? 2005.
Omfang
Anvendt uddannelsestid
Særlige fokuspunkter
Redegøre sammenhængende for og deltage i samtale om
erhvervsrelaterede emner.
Væsentligste
arbejdsformer
Klasseundervisning, elevfremlæggelser og skriftligt arbejde
Titel 4
Aspects of Life in the USA
Indhold
Chapter 1, introduction p. 1-11, American Ways
Are We all Becoming Americans?, The Big Issue
Growing Strength of China masks doubt about future, The Guardian, 14
February
How Long Will America lead the World?, Newsweek, June 26, 2006
Chapter 2, Traditional American Values and Beliefs, pp. 21-32, American Ways
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Your Society Check it out
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Barack Obama overview, The New York Times, January 28, 2010
Group work on the Statue of liberty.
Michael More’s film Sicko about the American health care system. We
talked about the various welfare models the residual model as opposed
to the Scandinavian model.
Politics and government
p. 127-136 government and politics in the United States, The American
Ways, third edition,
Group presentations USA
The Declaration of Independence (and the historical background)
The Bill of Rights (and the historical background)
The Civil War-the union-the Confederation
The American religious heritage
The American Frontier Heritage
The world of American business
Education in the United States
The American Family
Leisure time- organized sports, recreation and television
Omfang
Anvendt uddannelsestid
Særlige fokuspunkter
Anvende viden om historiske, kulturelle og samfundsmæssige forhold i
USA
Væsentligste
arbejdsformer
Titel 5
Klasseundervisning, elevfremlæggelser og skriftligt arbejde
African-Americans
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Ethnical and racial assimilation in the United States, American
Indhold
Ways, An introduction to American culture by Maryann Datesman, Longman, second edition.
Some other spring from Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday
with William Dufty, Systime, 1993, p. 7-20
Strange Fruit http://www.strangefruit.org/
Rosa Parks the- Torchbearer, Time, June 4 1999
Writers and Writing-James Baldwin, Current , Jan. 86
Go tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Black Power, Black Nationalism
“Jakob og Klanen” http://www.americanpictures.com/video/kkk.on.the.road/kkk-road-dk.htm
Obama’s speech on race, March 18, 2008 youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWe7wTVbLUU
The film Goodbye Bafana about Nelson Mandela
Anvendt uddannelsestid
Omfang
Særlige fokuspunkter
Anvende viden om historiske, kulturelle og samfundsmæssige forhold i
USA
Væsentligste
arbejdsformer
Klasseundervisning, elevfremlæggelser og skriftligt arbejde
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Titel 6
India
Indhold
Class discussion
Map of India
Short quiz about India
India at a glance- general facts
India at a glance-introduction
Questions for introduction
India at a glance-a tale of two Indias (North and South India)
A Tale of Two Indias, The New York Times, January 10, 2011
Extracts from the Indian Constitution
Group presentations
The caste system
The caste system in India
Business class rishes in Ashes of caste system, The New York Times,
sep.10, 2010
Women
Arranged Marriages , dowries, working women
Are our sisters and daughters for sale www.inidatogether.org. , 1999
Rebel Brides and ex-wives, Newsweek, May 26,2008
The Plight of India’s women, The Guardian, June 17, 2011
The full extent of India’s gendercide, The Independent, May 25, 2011
Family Dynasties
Filling the mogul’s Shoes, Newsweek July 23, 2007
Meeting the Indian Branson Vijay Mallya, Marketing Week, Nov, 6,
2008
Bollywood
Hollywood Meets Bollywood as India’s Movies go gobal Bloosdale
Businessweek, feb.2, 2009
Bollywod Star Attacks film’s portraya of India, The Guardian, Jan. 16.
2009
Slumdog millionaire Could only have been made by a Westerner, The
Guardian, Jan, 15, 2009.
Bollywood Movie studios hire CEOs, BusinessWeek, July 25,2008
Tinseltown: Horray for Bollywood, BusinessWeek, June 12, 2008
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An Emerging market
The Great Indian Beer Rush, BusinessWeek, April 23, 2007
The World’s next big spenders, Newsweek, May 28, 2007
Guess Who’s hiring in America? BusinessWeek, June 25, 2007
What the nano means to India, BusinessWeek 11,2009
Innovation from India: The Next Big Wave, Bloomsberg BusinessWeek
Feb., 11, 2009
Flashy fashion grows as India’s rich flaunt wealth, The Independent,
May 22, 2011.
Omfang
Anvendt uddannelsestid
Særlige fokuspunkter
Eleverne opnår aktuel viden om engelsksprogede samfund og globale
sammenhænge.
Anvende relevante hjælpemidler til erhvervelse, vurdering og
formidling af ny viden om sprogområdet og globale sammenhænge.
Væsentligste
arbejdsformer
Klasseundervisning, elevfremlæggelser og skriftligt arbejde
Titel 7
Culture
Indhold
Cross-cultural business behaviour
Richard R. Gesteland, Cross-Cultural Business Behaviour, Copenhagen Business School Press, 2005.

The Chinese Negotiator
Anne Skaarup Rasmussen,Focus on Culture, Systime, 2001 p. 7-39
Definition of the term culture
Danish culture seen from abroad
Culture shock
Geert Hofstede’s theories on culture.
We have also compared the cultural dimensions in India and in Denmark.
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Omfang
Anvendt uddannelsestid
Særlige fokuspunkter
Emnet skal skabe grundlag for, at elevernes evne til at kommunikere på
tværs af kulturelle grænser både i almene og erhvervsrelaterede
sammenhænge.
Væsentligste
arbejdsformer
Klasseundervisning, elevfremlæggelser og skriftligt arbejde
Titel 8
Indhold
Great Britain
Map of the United Kingdom
Geographical Britain – a Fact File from ”Target”, Gyldendal
The British Empire – from ”Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
A Sense of Class – from ”Adult Worlds”, Gyldendal
Youtube- Keeping up Appearances
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Education in Britain Today, “Adult Worlds”
Elections + The British System of Government, “Targets”
DR udsendelser om valget i Storbritannien i 2009
Group presentations on self-chosen subjects: food and drink, language,
Northern Ireland, government, law etc.
Film: This is England a film by Shane Meadows
The Riots in London 2011
“The England and Riots: How did they start? Why did they happen?”
from The Current – January/February 2012 vol. 43
David Cameron’s statement in Parliament:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-14490251
Maps and timeline – videos documenting the events.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14436499
England Riots: The Youtube mugging that shocked Great Britain, BBC
News
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15232750
Omfang
Anvendt uddannelsestid
Særlige fokuspunkter
Anvende viden om historiske, kulturelle og samfundsmæssige forhold i
Storbritannien
Væsentligste
arbejdsformer
Klasseundervisning, elevfremlæggelser og skriftligt arbejde
Anvendt grammatikbog
Fejlstøvsugeren – Jens Bøgh og Hovgaard, Forlaget Musagetes 1987
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Handelskorrespondence
Engelske Breve, Niveau B, Hougaard og Jonas – Forlaget Sprogbøger
Yours faithfully – Engelsk handelskorrespondance, Susanne Askham, Ventus 2006
Written assignments, 3rd year (all assignments are former exam papers)
1. Nike in Asia,
2. Starbucks
3. Twitter
4. Aspects of Globalization
5. Flexible work practices
6. Mock Test (immigration May 2011)
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