The Written Exam
What do you ALWAYS need to leave time for at the end of the written exam?
Thorough proofreading.
1 time og 30mins (inkl. votering og karaktergivning).
Forklar reglerne for verbalkongruens med brug af det følgende eksempel:
The students know their grammar very well by now as it has been drilled into them all year.
Overensstemmelse mellem subjekt og verballed ift. person og tal. "The students" = 3. person pluralis, derfor -s på "know", mens "it" = 3. person singularis, derfor "has" og ikke "have".
Which analytical model should be used for non-fiction texts?
The rhetorical pentagram.
In which country do we talk about a 'Stolen Generation'?
Australia.
What do you need to include if you choose to do Assignment 4b?
Hvad må man bruge til forberedelsen?
Egne noter og kompendier (printede eller downloadede), 'The English Handbook', ordbogen.com, Oxford Learner's Dictionary, MinLæring, thesaurus.com. Det er det samme som til den skriftlige eksamen.
Hvilke fem typer pronomener er i brug her?
This is our last English lesson together. We have spent many hours with each other, which have been very enjoyable.
Demonstrativt, possessivt, personligt, reciprokt, relativt.
What are included in the rhetorical pentagram?
Speaker/audience/topic/context/purpose/language.
What is the name and current job of the author of 'Hillbilly Elegy'?
JD Vance, Vice President of the US.
Hvad skal I altid huske at bruge, når I skal forklare grammatiske regler?
Eksempler fra opgaven.
Name a short story written by Ray Bradbury.
'The Veldt' or 'The Pedestrian'.
Forklar hvordan passiv dannes på baggrund af følgende eksempel:
The students know their grammar very well by now as it has been drilled into them all year.
"To be" som hjælpeverbum og hovedverbum i perfektum participium. I dette tilfælde i perfektum, så "has" som hjælpeverbum, "to be" i perfektum participium og "drilled" i perfektum participium.
Name five academic terms to describe the structure or composition of a fiction text.
Nana decides but could be: Foreshadowing; in medias res; open ending; motif; flashback; chronological, title.
Where does Trevor Noah come from, what is his memoir called and why?
South Africa, 'Born a Crime', because mixed race relationships were illegal when he was born.
Name at least three things you could focus on in your stylistic analysis.
Nana decides but it could be: Imagery, sociolect, slang, contractions, level of formality, sentence structures or length, semantic fields, colloquialisms, word classes, emotionally charged vocabulary.
Who wrote the following three texts? 'Lord of the Flies', 'Tomorrow Is Too Far' and '1984'?
William Golding, Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie and George Orwell.
Præsens - navneform + -s i 3. person singularis.
Præteritum - navneform + -e/-ed.
Perfektum - "to have" i præsens som hjælpeverbum + hovedverbum i perfektum part.
Pluskvamperfektum - "to have" i præteritum som hjælpeverbum + hovedverbum i perfektum part.
Futurum - "will" som hjælpeverbum + hovedverbum i infinitiv.
Name three different analytical approaches.
Sociohistorical or historical; post-colonial; feminist; socio-linguistic; psychoanalytical; biographical.
Tell me at least three things about a Dramatic Monologue.
It's a poem, it uses a first person narrator (who isn't the poet), a silent listener, a situation that is slowly revealed, a dramatic moment in the speaker's life.
What is wrong with this funnel intro (6 things):
Most of us have experienced conflict at some point in our lives. I know I have many times and I really don't like it. In the short story 'The many conflicts of life' the authors portrayal of conflict as a key theme is apparent through the use of narrative technique, imagery and setting.
Lack of author name and year of publication; lack of apostrophe for genitive and capitals for title; use of contraction and I.
Name five characters from the three Shakespeare plays we've studied.
Nana decides but the obvious ones would be Romeo, Juliet, Beatrice, Benedict, Macbeth.
Fortæl os fem interessante grammatiske fakta om "to be".
Det er et kopulaverbum; det er det mest uregelmæssige verbum på engelsk; det personbøjes BÅDE i præsens og præteritum; som hjælpeverbum bruges det til at danne udvidet tid; som hjælpeverbum bruges det til at danne passiv; det kan være både et hjælpeverbum og et hovedverbum. Andre interessante fakta accepteres, hvis de er valide.
What's the difference between prose and blank verse?
Prose is language in its ordinary form, without any metrical structure, whereas blank verse is unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Complete the line:
"A curse on..."
"...both your houses".