Gymnasiale uddannelser - Engelsk (01/07 2011)

Teacher Training Videos (28/06 2011)

• This is a fantastic resource for teachers everywhere - free videos to help you get to grips with online websites and tools.
• Want to know how to create your own podcast?
• Or maybe get your students creating an online story?
• Well worth a look!

Peace Bridge brings hope to Derry (27/06 2011)

• A new bridge linking divided communities in Londonderry will be a catalyst for change in the city, Martin McGuinness has said Stormont's Deputy First Minister, who hails from the city, joined First Minister Peter Robinson and Irish Republic premier Enda Kenny at the official opening of the 235-metre Peace Bridge across the River Foyle.
• Linking the predominantly Catholic city centre to the largely Protestant Waterside, Mr McGuinness said the foot and cycle bridge was an example of how his home city was changing.
• "This bridge will be a catalyst for change that will help transform the city and the local community," he said. 

Do You Read E-Books? (25/06 2011)

• J. K. Rowling, the author of the “Harry Potter” series, started a new interactive Web site that will also sell e-books.
• Do you read e-books?
• If so, which books have you read digitally, and on what devices?
• How have you found the e-reading experience?

Bogen forsvinder fra gymnasiet (25/06 2011)

• Teknologiens vinde blæser for fuld styrke gennem det danske gymnasium og fejer undervejs papirer og kopier i skraldespanden, mens bøgerne bliver forvist til depoter og skabe.
• Det papirløse eller ligefrem bogløse gymnasium er nemlig på vej, og måske vil papiret allerede i løbet af ganske få år blive afløst at interaktive bøger på computere, såkaldte iBøger, der hele tiden bliver opdateret og dermed afspejler den aktuelle virkelighed.
• Læs mere på b.dk om disse udtalelser fra Systime.

Crosswords (21/06 2011)

• The X-files: Crossword of the week
• Here you can choose between different crosswords which train your vocabulary and grammar skills. Solution sheets for the crosswords are available as soon as a new crossword of the week appears.
• All crosswords are printerfriendly (pdf)format, and in order to view the documents you will need Adobe Reader, which is free.
• (Under oprydning på EMU Engelsk er jeg faldet over denne side, med kryds-og-tværser, som stadigvæk er relevante).

Reading Strategies for ‘Informational Text’ (17/06 2011)

• While English classes will still include healthy amounts of fiction, the standards say that students should be reading more nonfiction texts as they get older, to prepare them for the kinds of material they will read in college and careers.
• In the fourth grade, students should be reading about the same amount from “literary” and “informational” texts, according to the standards; in the eighth grade, 45 percent should be literary and 55 percent informational, and by 12th grade, the split should be 30/70.
• Reading strategies: Before reading - While reading - After reading
• Læs mere

Ny fagkonsulent: Hanne Kær Pedersen (16/06 2011)

• Hanne Kær Pedersen fra Nyborg Gymnasium bliver ny fagkonsulent i engelsk.
• Hun tiltræder stillingen d. 1. august 2011.

Defrag - word of the day (12/06 2011)

defrag, v.

• Etymology:Shortened < defragment v. Compare defrag n. and slightly earlier defragger n.
• Computing. trans. and intr. = defragment v.
• 1988 20 Meg versus 40 Meg in comp.sys.mac (Usenet newsgroup) 19 Feb.,There are at least two programs which will defrag a ‘virtual disk’.
• 1990 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 8 Oct. f10Michael announced that it was time for him to defrag my hard disk.
• 1995 Desktop Publishers Jrnl. July 43/2 Go out of your way to maintain your drives by defragging and ‘disk doctoring’.
• 2001 My Business May–June 50/2 Learn to defrag and scan your hard disk regularly.
• Derivatives deˈfragging adj. and n.
• 1989 Hard Drive Defragger in comp.sys.atari.st (Usenet newsgroup) 7 Sept.,I have had no problems yet. But you should backup your HD before using any defragging program.
• 1989 Defragging a Hard Disk in comp.sys.atari.st (Usenet newsgroup) 27 Sept., With regard to my posting about defragging, here's a caution.
• 1997 T3 Jan. 33/1Windows 95 comes with its own perfectly capable defragging program.

Free Rice (11/06 2011)

• FreeRice er en non-profit website lanceret af FN’s Fødevareprogram (United Nations World Food Programme – WFP).
• FreeRice er kort fortalt et spørgsmålsspil på nettet, der udfordre børn og voksne i emner som geografi, kemi og kunst og samtidig har stort fokus på at forbedre engelsk grammatik og ordforråd.
• FreeRice har to formål: Gøre sprogundervisning tilgængelig for alle. Bidrage til at udrydde sult ved at skaffe ris til sultende verden over. FreeRice’s engelske version blev lanceret i 2007 og fik øjeblikkelig stor succes. I løbet af de første måneder havde spillet genereret nok ris til at mætte 50,000 mennesker på en dag.
• I dag tiltrækker FreeRice’s engelske version 40,000 spillere om dagen (1,3 millioner om måneden). Ved at tage kampen op mod sult online har de hjulpet os med at skaffe næsten én milliard riskorn – eller nok til at give 4.8 millioner mennesker i verdens fattigste lande en dagsration. Det er en række virksomheder der sponsorerer den ris, FreeRice spillerne genererer. Så det koster ikke en krone at spille med.

Fill-In - ‘Macbeth’ for Children (10/06 2011)

• This week, in lieu of lessons, we’re running daily fill-ins.
• In these exercises, which we ordinarily post weekly to help students learn vocabulary and practice reading comprehension, we choose an interesting Times article and drop out certain words or phrases from it, then invite students to fill in the blanks — either from their imaginations, or by choosing from a scrambled list of words and phrases that appear at the bottom of the post.
• Today’s fill-in takes 22 words out of an article about a children’s production of a much-taught play, “Macbeth.”
• Filling in the missing words demands a basic knowledge of the characters and some famous quotes from the play.

Fill-In - D-Day Invasion (08/06 2011)

• This week, in lieu of lessons, we’re running daily fill-ins. In these exercises, which we ordinarily post weekly to help students learn vocabulary and practice reading comprehension, we choose an interesting Times article and drop out certain words or phrases from it, then invite students to fill in the blanks — either from their imaginations, or by choosing from a scrambled list of words and phrases that appear at the bottom of the post.
• To commemorate the fact that the anniversary of D-Day is June 6, today’s fill-in is based on the front-page New York Times article from 1944 about the Normandy invasion, “Hitler’s Sea Wall Is Breached, Invaders Fighting Way Inland; New Allied Landings Are Made.”
• How well do you know your World War II history? Can you supply the 20 missing words in the descriptive passage about the invasion below? 

Witch Hunting and The Red Scare (06/06 2011)

Mette Hermann har også indsendt undervisningsmateriale til dette emne.
Kernestof

• Shirley Jackson: “The Lottery”, 1948 Fra: 50 Tekster v/ Riber Christensen, Gyldendal 1988
• Arthur Miller: “The Crucible”, Penguin 1953 Uddrag: Akt 1, s. 40 – 50, Akt 2, Akt 4
• Arthur Miller: “Are You Now or Were You Ever”, 2000 Fra: http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/miller-mccarthyism.html 

• ”The Crucible”, 1997 (film) Introduction to The Crucible Fra: http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~media/hrc_Miller.html 
• Grant Wood: American Gothic, 1930 (billede) Fra: http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/6565

In Love and Trouble (05/06 2011)

Mette Hermann har indsendt et meget omfattende og pædagogisk veltilrettelagt materiale til stx A:
 
Kernestof

• William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet: the Prologue, act I, scene I, act II, scene I + act V, scene III, 1595 Fra: New Swan Shakespeare. Longman, 1998
• William Shakespeare: Sonnets 18, 29 and 130, 1609
• Fra: http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/ 
• John Dowland: Flow My Tears, 1600
• John Dowland: Come again, 1597
• Fra: http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/d/dowland.html 
• Annie Proulx: Brokeback Mountain, 1997
• Fra: Udsen, Lotte: You Gotta Try Everything Once, Systime 2003
• Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre, Chapter 26
• Fra: http://www.readprint.com/chapter-688/Charlotte-Bronte 
• + supplerende materiale

Found Poem Favorite | ‘Storytelling’ (04/06 2011)

• Today’s poem, chosen from more than 650 submissions to our Found Poem Student Challenge, comes from Samantha, who is 16 and lives in Beacon Falls, Connecticut.
• Samantha’s poem is comprised of words from a recent editorial about robins in springtime and from a 2006 article about the band Belle and Sebastian.

Anglo Files # 160 er udkommet (01/06 2011)

Bladet med temaerne 'Generalforsamlingskursus og Danishness' er udkommet med artikler og indlæg som:

• Harder, Analyse af politisk sagprosa
• Ward, The Challenge of Transnationalism
• Jenkins, Teaching English …and Being Danish
• Sinead ni Shuinear, Irish, Danish, European Travellers
• Liz Jensen, Becoming Danish
• Liz Jensen, Survivor Syndrome
• Olsen, NYC. The Citiest of Cities
• Back, Student Media
• Fogh Nielsen, Tegneserier i gymnasieundervisningen
• m.fl.

Do You Speak a Second, or Third, Language? (01/06 2011)

A cognitive neuroscientist, Ellen Bialystok has spent almost 40 years learning about how bilingualism sharpens the mind. Her good news: Among other benefits, the regular use of two languages appears to delay the onset of Alzheimer’s disease symptoms. Dr. Bialystok, 62, a distinguished research professor of psychology at York University in Toronto, was awarded a $100,000 Killam Prize last year for her contributions to social science.