Gymnasiale uddannelser - Engelsk (01/02 2012)

AT 2012 - Disasters (30/01 2012)

Du skal vælge en sag, hvor en bestemt katastrofe spiller en væsentlig rolle.

Du skal udarbejde en problemformulering samt en synopsis, hvor den valgte katastrofe, dens årsager og/eller konsekvenser belyses.

Som et led i din fremstilling af den valgte sag skal du gøre rede for din brug af begrebet katastrofe og begrunde dit valg af materiale.

Du skal anvende viden og metoder fra to fag. Det ene fag skal være på mindst B-niveau. De to fag skal være fra hvert sit hovedområde.

EMU engelsk vil i de kommende dage forsøge at opsnuse inspiration.
Start f.eks. her: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_disasters - eller her: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001437.html - eller her:

_{Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year}

Elmore Leonard: the great American novelist (29/01 2012)

• Leonard is regarded as the greatest American crime writer, surpassing even Raymond Chandler. But it is time to drop the qualification of genre.
• The best novelists create a world around the reader. You can feel it bubbling up in irrepressible invention. So we have "a guy by the name of Booker, a twenty-five-year old super-dude twice convicted felon" in his Jacuzzi when the telephone rings. No one answers it, and Booker gets out of the Jacuzzi. At the other end of the line, a woman, Moselle, asks him to sit down. When he does, she informs him that he's triggered a bomb in the chair – "when you get up, honey, what's left of your ass is gonna go clear through the ceiling".
• Læs mere.

Stephen Lawrence's mother says No 10 must do more on race (28/01 2012)

• Cameron 'not doing enough to tackle racial prejudice'
  • Murdered boy's brother stopped and searched 20 times
  • Trust set up to help deprived youth has money problems
• Doreen Lawrence has said David Cameron's government is not doing enough to tackle racial prejudice, which continues to blight society, and has warned that spending cuts will hit working-class and black Britons the hardest.

Kære kollega! Har du eller en af dine engelskkolleger lyst at blive skriftlig censor til sommer? (26/01 2012)

• Selvom skolerne allerede har i begyndelsen af januar indstillede kolleger som skriftlige censorer til de to eksamensbegivenheder i d. 29. maj og 1. juni 2012, så mangler der stadig omkring 150 kolleger til at rette en normal portion, som er 100 opgaver på B-niveau eller 75 opgaver på A-niveau. Opgaverne skal ikke rettes, men bedømmes. At være skriftlig censor betyder med andre ord, at man påtager sig 50 timers ekstra arbejde fordelt over 3-4 uger i eksamensperioden. Og man får løn.
• Gevinsten ved at være skriftlig censor er det indblik, man får i det arbejde, der foregår ude i klasserne med den skriftlige dimension: med andre ord inspiration og gode eksempler – og nogle gange det modsatte. Man mødes til censormøde i Odense Congress Center med sine medcensorer d. 19. juni og friholdes for eksamen den dag.
• Det er rektor, der indstiller til ministeriet, så start med at få grønt lys hos den eksamensansvarlige på din skole, hvis du gerne vil beskikkes – og fristen er 23. marts – og skriv så til mig. Har du spørgsmål, er du velkommen til at kontakte mig (hanne.kaer.pedersen@udst.dk).
• Sammen med Engelsklærerforeningen håber jeg at kunne arrangere forberedende kurser for nye censorer, inden censurperioden begynder i slutningen af maj.
• På forhånd tak for hjælpen.
• Venlig hilsen
• Hanne Kær Pedersen
• fagkonsulent
• PS. Jeg vil i de kommende dage sende denne mail ud til enkeltkolleger, hvis mailadresser jeg har fra deres skolers hjemmeside. Hvis du modtager den, så vær sød at rundsende til dine andre engelskkolleger, for jeg har ikke mulighed for (manuelt) at finde frem til alle…selvom jeg i denne situation gerne ville ☺

It’s a Dehumanizing Business, Becoming Top Dog (26/01 2012)

• Oh, Mr. Romney, have you met Richard, Duke of Gloucester? A front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination might benefit from a sit-down with the title character of “Richard III,” or the version of him that is being embodied with all-conquering audacity by Kevin Spacey at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
• In Shakespeare’s grisly portrait of the hunchback who would be king, which opened Wednesday night in a production from the trans-Atlantic Bridge Project, Richard buzz-saws his way through a crowded field of contenders to claim the crown of England.

On the Stump: Examining the Form and Function of Campaign Speeches (25/01 2012)

• What is a stump speech, and what makes one effective?
• In this lesson, students analyze the stump speeches of presidential candidates, then write the stump speech they would use if they were running for president.

The Complete Poems by Philip Larkin, edited by Archie Burnett - review (25/01 2012)

• An exhaustive, awe-inspiring monument to Philip Larkin.
• A "Complete Poems" is a death certificate and memorial combined. After the Selected and the Collected, the Complete marks the poet's official demise and at the same time erects a carven monument designed to outlast the ages. In the case of this mighty volume of the all of Larkin, there is something too of the coroner's report.
• The Larkinesquely named Archie Burnett conducts a forensic examination of the poet's imaginative venture, and in the process leaves no headstone unturned. The result is awe-inspiring, exhaustive and faintly risible. Larkin himself would have made merciless fun of it, but the poet, and the librarian, in him would have been immensely pleased and proud.

Seven-Minute Shakespeare (21/01 2012)

• If reading CliffsNotes’s “Hamlet” seems to be a pokey, 20th-century way to speed-comprehend Shakespeare, never fear. Now there’s a seven-minute cartoon version, complete with a talking Yorick’s skull. Think of it as CliffsNotes for CliffsNotes.

• Over on Education Life, I have a short piece about CliffsNotes Films, a new series in which classic literature becomes animated “edutainment.” The first offerings — six Shakepearean plays — debuted online in October.
• While everyone from the Folger Library to SparkNotes offers help with Shakespeare, CliffsNotes Films has turned the plays into short cartoons and translated Elizabethan English into contemporary slang.

Reading With Strangers: Ways to Study Literature Collaboratively (20/01 2012)

• Inspired by the example of two New Jersey high school teachers who brought their students together in reading John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men,” we offer you some ideas for reading alongside others in different places, circumstances and stages of life, and perhaps to bridge some divides.
• From reader exchanges from across town or around the world, here are some tools to aid your collaborations.

Opinion: The Dark Side of Science (17/01 2012)

Scientists are responsible for the foreseeable consequences of their research—good and bad.
Within the burgeoning field of synthetic biology, teams of biologists and engineers are making great strides in understanding the cell and its functioning.
However, there is more that should be discussed than the triumphs. There are also the dark purposes to which science (and synthetic biology in particular) can be put. Worries range from the development of pathogenic bioweapons to the potential contamination of native gene pools in our environment. The question is, are scientists responsible for the potentially negative impacts of their work?

NY BACHELORUDDANNELSE I AMERIKANSKE STUDIER PÅ SYDDANSK UNIVERSITET (16/01 2012)

• Er dine elever interesseret i USA? Så fortæl dem om den spændende nye uddannelse, der starter 1. september 2012.
• Bacheloruddannelsen i Amerikanske Studier er et tværfagligt studie, der giver en både bred og dyb forståelse af kulturelle og politiske aspekter af USA. Uddannelsen kombinerer det historiske og politiske med litterære og kulturelle emner.
• For mere information:
  http://www.sdu.dk/uddannelse/bachelor/amerikanske_studier
  Facebook: American Studies - University of Southern Denmark

LANSERING AV NYTT FAGDIDAKTISK BLAD FOR ENGELSK- OG FREMMEDSPRÅKLÆRERE (12/01 2012)

Vi vil med dette gi dere en smaksprøve på Fremmedspråksenteret i Norge
sitt rykende ferske tidsskrift Communicare med håp om “hederlig” omtale på
deres nettsider, men selvsagt også til glede og fornøyelse – hele 80
siders lesestoff om språk og språklæring kan vi tilby!

Bab.la sproglig hjemmeside (12/01 2012)

Jeg har modtaget en henvisning til en gratis hjemmeside, som beskriver sig selv på denne måde:

• En kort beskrivelse af bab.la:
• Gratis online dansk-engelsk ordbog med oversættelser, udtale, kontekstsætninger og fagudtryk. Sprogportalen bab.la vil være verdens største gratis online ordbog og indeholder bl.a. grammatiske øvelser, konjugationstabeller for flere sprog og et aktivt debatforum.
• Opret dig som bruger og sæt dit eget præg på siden med ordforslag, quizzer og spørgsmål.

Courses in the Netherlands (10/01 2012)

• We would like to remind you and your colleagues that the deadline of the LLP National Agencies to apply for the Comenius/Grundtvig in-service training grants for the below specified courses will expire on the 16th of January 2012.
• 1)EFFECTIVE USE OF WEB-BASED APPLICATIONS IN TASK BASED LANGUAGE TEACHING.  (Comenius/Grundtvig code: NL-2012-266-002). Dates and location: 1st to 8th of July 2012, to be held at the Katholieke Hogeschool Brugge-Oostende, Bruges, Belgium.
• 2) INDUCTION AND GUIDANCE OF NEWLY APPOINTED TEACHERS. (Comenius/Grundtvig code: NL-2012-264-002). Dates and location: 1st to 8th of July 2012, to be held at the Katholieke Hogeschool Brugge-Oostende, Bruges, Belgium.
• 3) DIGITAL AUDIO AND VIDEO IN LANGUAGE TEACHING. (Comenius/Grundtvig code: NL-2012-268-002)
  Dates and location: 12th to 19th of August 2012, to be held at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Scrutinizing Stand-Ins: Working With Nouns and Pronouns (07/01 2012)

• Overview:
• What are pronouns, and what are their purpose and function? How are they used in speech and writing?
• In this lesson, students identify the connection between nouns and pronouns and discuss how the clarity of a sentence is affected by using a noun as opposed to a pronoun.

Do Your Teachers Use Technology Well? (06/01 2012)

• The Times is running a series of articles about the ways in which technology is changing the American classroom. Many teachers are now incorporating digital tools into their lessons, via interactive whiteboards, social media, class blogs and wikis, devices like cellphones or video cameras, or programs on computers or tablets.
• Do your teachers teach using new technologies? How? To what extent do you think it works? How do you prefer to learn? Why?

The Mystery of Edwin Drood: A Dickens of a whodunnit (05/01 2012)

• Charles Dickens died before he could finish his last novel. So crime-writer Gwyneth Hughes set out to complete it for a new BBC version - and soon wished she hadn't.
• Ever since 1950, when the BBC gave us the live, first-ever broadcast of A Christmas Carol, we've relied on Charles Dickens to see us through the winter months, as we draw the curtains, stoke the fire, and sit down in front of the box with a hankie, ready to weep and chuckle our way back into his vivid, awful, exciting 19th century, when people had wonderful names like Scrooge and Cratchit, and every sentence was longer than this one.
• Læs mere i The Guardian

Stephen Lawrence verdict delivers justice after 18-year wait (04/01 2012)

• Doreen Lawrence, the mother of Stephen Lawrence accused the police of putting her through 18 years of grief and uncertainty after witnessing the conviction of two of her son's killers for his racist murder nearly a generation ago.
• Outside a grey and rainswept central criminal court in London, to cheers from members of the public and campaigners, Doreen Lawrence said she could not celebrate; all she felt was relief that at last "some sort of justice" had been done, with the jury's unanimous guilty verdicts on Gary Dobson, 36, and David Norris, 35.
• How the Stephen Lawrence murder case changed Britain - video The murder of Stephen Lawrence became a cause celebre, prompting changes in policing, forensic science, the law, employment and community relations.
• Se mere i The Guardian.

New authors for 2012: Harriet Lane, Chibundu Onuzo, Faramerz Dabhoiwala (03/01 2012)

A former journalist, Faber's youngest female signing and an Oxford historian all have major debuts this year.